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VICTORIAN & GEORGIAN JEWELRY
Georgian Jewelry
VICTORIAN SPECIAL MASTERPIECES
Victorian agate jewelry
Victorian hair jewlery
Victorian jet jewelry
Victorian jet vulcanite earrings
Victorian jewelry
Victorian portrait jewelry
Victorian silver jewelry
Victorian vulcanite jewelry
EDWARDIAN to Czech JEWELRY
Czech & Lavilieres
Edwardian & Filigree
FINE & BRIDGE JEWELRY
Cameos
Charms & Fobs
Fine jewelry
Garnets, Bohemian & others
Lockets
Lorgnettes & Chatelaines
Paste Jewelry
Rings, Fine
Rings, bridge & costume
Silver Jewelry
Stephen Dweck
BAKELITE
Bakelite bangles
Bakelite, Shultz
Bakelite, Shultz misc.
Bakelite, pins etc
COSTUME JEWELRY
Bakelite bangles
Bakelite, Shultz
Bakelite, contemporary
Bakelite, pins etc
Boucher
Bracelets, signed
Bracelets, unsigned
Brooches, signed
Brooches, unsigned
Carnegie
Christmas jewelry
Ciner
Clips, signed
Clips, unsigned
Copper Jewelry
Coro
Cufflinks
DeMario, Eugene
DeRosa
Earrings, signed
Earrings, unsigned
Eisenberg
Enamel flower pins
European Jewelry
Hobe
Juliana
Miriam Haskell
Necklaces, signed
Necklaces, unsigned
Plastic jewelry
Regency
Reja
Reproductions
Rosenstein
Sash pins & buckles
Schreiner
Sets & parures
Signed, misc
Staret
Swarovski
Swoboda
Trifari
Vega Maddux
Vendome
Vrba
Weiss
Wood jewelry
ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES
Accessories
Boxes, Jewelry & Other
Clothing
Compacts
Desk Accessories
Porcelain & Glass
Purses
Sewing items
Sterling objects
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Lorgnettes & Chatelaines |
| For years, ladies wore necessary and useful implements clasped to the waist of their dresses because clothing was not made with pockets for carrying such items. They were usually worn suspended from a clip or large brooch with chains and hooks to hold the various implements, although later chatelaines could be worn on a finger ring. Fashioned of both precious and non-precious metals, they could be extremely simple or ornamented with embossed work, pierced work and gem stones. They were fashioned in a wide variety of materials: gold, sterling, gold wash, cut steel and enameled and jeweled.
Chatelaines might be comprised of items all used for one task...sewing, for instance... or combined with various items that suited the wearer. Some were matching sets like the cut steel chatelaines and others were compiled over time by the owner, especially the sterling chatelaines. Belt chatelaines or waist hooks were also used to hold a purse, as seen in the vintage photograph above. Most fashionable from about 1870 to World War I, they remain popular with collectors today.
Lorgnettes were made in a wide variety of materials: sterling, karat gold, gold wash, tortoise, ivory, mother-of-pearl and lovely enameling and gem stones. Those with a strong design sense (for example Art Nouveau or Arts & Crafts) are most desirable. Some collectors have their own prescription mounted into an old lorgnette so that they are actually useable. |
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