{"title":"Jewelry \u0026 Adornment","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of what comes through this section was made to be worn close and then kept. A mourning brooch with plaited hair under glass, a locket with the photograph still in it, a ring engraved with a name and a date. Sentiment was the point, and it is the reason the pieces survived.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe look for jewellery that still carries its evidence. An engraved initial. A hallmark, or the lack of one, which says something on its own about gold-filled and pinchbeck work. A clasp of the kind fitted in one particular decade. Hairwork gets a second look every time, because it was made at kitchen tables as often as by jewellers and the difference shows under a loupe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDating leans on what the metal says. British silver and gold carry a date letter that names the assay year. A registered design carries a mark that dates it. Without either we read the construction, the fittings and the style, and the card says which of those we used. Confidence is marked Documented, Attributed or Our reading, and Our reading appears here more often than we would like, because so much jewellery was made by hands nobody recorded. The \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/the-card\"\u003ecard page\u003c\/a\u003e explains each grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery piece is described after handling, flaws named. Ships anywhere in the United States, and the card comes in the box.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"im-0001-georgian-hair-mourning-bracelet-1792","title":"Georgian Hair Mourning Bracelet, Engraved 1792","description":"\u003cp\u003eA bracelet of plaited brown hair, capped at each end with a gold cylinder and joined through a rectangular clasp set with twenty seed pearls around a panel of woven hair under glass. The reverse of the clasp is engraved in script: M[iss or rs] May, Ob[t] [day] Sep[t], 1792, Aet 77. She died in September 1792 at seventy-seven, and the bracelet was made from her hair for someone who wanted to keep wearing her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flaws: the plait is fraying badly at two points near the terminals with loose hairs throughout, and the band should be handled as fragile. The gold is unmarked and untested; color reads as a low-carat rose gold. [Confirm pearl count, test the gold, and read the second line of the inscription under magnification.]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"In Memoriam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52955431371064,"sku":"IM-0001","price":875.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/5715\/0776\/files\/27.png?v=1789388726"}],"url":"https:\/\/inmemoriamantiques.com\/collections\/jewelry-adornment.oembed","provider":"In Memoriam","version":"1.0","type":"link"}