Pop-up at Wilton House Museum to showcase rarely seen mourning jewelry, portraiture miniatures and even the supposed hair of ...

Four distinctive black brooches worn by the former British monarch are being sold at Sotheby's next month A selection of Queen Victoria's unique "mourning jewelry" is being auctioned in London. Four ...

Source: Carl Rudolph Sohn (1845-1908) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Victorian society of the late 1800s was obsessed with death. Queen Victoria set the tone for this after the death of ...

Bikerringshop announces a new collection that interprets Victorian mourning jewelry aesthetics and techniques through sterling silver craftsmanship and a focused study of historical motifs.

For hundreds of years, people wore mourning jewelry to commemorate their dead loved ones. But what secrets about the past can you learn from these dark baubles made of diamonds, skeletons and bits of ...

Halloween’s focus on death seems a perfect time to talk about mourning jewelry. Mourning jewelry originated in the 17th Century as a way for a person to remember a departed loved one. The fashion ...