VICTORIAN enameled "Merry Christmas" sentimental locket with enameled mistletoe and holly on the front and two palette worked hair plumes with seed pearls under glass inside, 1-1/4".  View   View   #V24996

VICTORIAN 14k yellow gold mourning ring with black "In Memory Of" enameling, plaited brown hair under glass front, engraved inside "Caroline Ryland, obt 11 Nov 1855, age 45", size 9.   View   View   #V29762

  VICTORIAN 10 karat yellow gold hair locket with black enameled "In Memory Of" on front, "Hannah Taylor, born June 23, 1872 died July 30, 1876, Rest in Jesus" and hand-tied hair curls inside, 1-5/8" by 1-1/4".   View   View   View   #V29823 

VICTORIAN gold and black enamel palette worked hair plumes, seed pearls and golden wire work memorial brooch with engraving on back, "Alex McDonald, obt. 23rd Dec, 1850, Agnes Sanderson, 14th Nov. 1871. Note that each side of the curled hair is a different color, one for each of the people memorialized in the engraving on the back.   View   View   View   #V31130

VICTORIAN lady wearing a lovely hair brooch with woven and braided hair.  View   #Vpho1

GEORGIAN man's lace brooch with hair insert, engraved "Susanna Bush, obt 12 Aug 1807 alt 30", an unusually early date, 1".   View   View   #V29477

RING 14 yellow gold ring, long-ways mounted garnet with seed pearls, engraved inside "George to Lilly G., 8-1878", size 6-1/4 and measures 1/2" across the front.   View   View   #K31783  

  Edwardian 18k yellow gold open face pendant watch set with a bezel set old mine cut diamond (est. .05 ct, VS, G-1), heavily embossed with cherubs and flowers, suspended from a watch pin of enameled griffons and a crown. The pin is delicately enameled with a griffons and crown motif and is set with a ruby (2.0mm purplish-red), five 2.0mm pearls, one old mine cut diamond (est. .04 ct, VS, G-1), six old mine cut diamonds (est. weight from .01 ct to .02 ct, VS, G-1) and one central fresh water pearl (9.0mm by 7.0mm). The watch is 1" across; the watch pin is 1" by 1". The watch case is engraved on the inside from a father to his daughter and dated Christmas 1904. The case is marked "Swiss, A.W., K14, 127911" and a squirrel hallmark. There are no numbers or marks on the works.   View   View   View   View    #V24861 

 ELGIN lady's open face 14 karat gold pocket watch engraved with the initials "AJK", my grandmother's. This was my college graduation gift from my mother.   View   #w20423  

  GEORGIAN 18k yellow gold and banded agate memorial ring, hallmarked London, engraved "Michael Simpson died 12 July 1835 Age 40 Years" and dated 1835, size 7-1/4, as is.    View   View   #K29309

GEORGIAN/VICTORIAN "In Memory Of" hair brooch with the name "Sarah" in hair compartment, 7/8".   View   #V27608   

  VICTORIAN 14k yellow gold and black enameled "In Memory Of Eliza" hair brooch, 7/8".   View   #V27614

   VICTORIAN 14k gentleman's portrait 2-1/8" oval brooch engraved on the back "Catherine Graham, Albany NY".   View   #V23370

VICTORIAN memorial ring in gold with black enameling marked "SH Chamberlaine Ob 23AUG1866" around the outside and engraved inside, size 7-1/2. See "Warman's Jewelry, 3rd Ed, page 36. Another ring similar to this can be seen in "Jewels & Jewelry" by Clare Phillips on page 140-3 and in Becker's "Antique & Twentieth Century Jewelry" on page 54,. View   View    View    View  #V25015 

     VICTORIAN 10k yellow gold and black enamel with seed pearls forget-me-not front, hair compartment back, gray-blond hair, engraved "John Sweeting died 24 March 1845 aged 85".   View   #V27605   

 GEORGIAN hair 1/2" pendant engraved on the back "Benj'n Hawkins, b. 19th Jan 18__, AE {age} '59", framed with seed pearls which are symbolic of tears, on a newer 20" chain marked "585". This was probably once a ring or lace pin.   View   #V27361  

  GEORGIAN memorial hair ring with pearl surround and blonde hair. Size 7-1/4 and engraved, " Joseph Dixon died 16th Jan.y 1815 aged 50".  Engraving   #V15165

     VICTORIAN hair brooch with black enamel sentimentally engraved "In Memory of Wee Jeanie", 1-5/16".   View   #V17492

  VICTORIAN blonde plaited hair brooch set in black enameled gold filled frame, engraved on back "L.E. 8 Feb1870", 1-1/2".   View   View   #V27789

  VICTORIAN hair brooch engraved "In Memory of Elizabeth Kind, Obt 17th Nov 1844 at 67", 1-5/8". View  View  #V25997

VICTORIAN hair locket brooch with etched flowers and embossed scrolls, engraved on back "FHN".   View   View   #V27368 

   VICTORIAN hair brooch, black enameled frame "In Memory Of", engraved on the reverse, "FR obt Nov 13, 1856".   View   #V27579 

   VICTORIAN hair brooch with black enamel frame, engraved on reverse "Walter Carley died 14 Feb 1886 aged 13 months", 1-1/8".   View   #V27609    

 18k YELLOW GOLD band with gypsy set diamond, engraved inside "AJK" for Agnes Jeanette King, my grandmother, circa 1910.   View   View    #Gajk 

Agnes Jeanette King born August 8, 1891 in Corydon, KY;
married William Bennett Negley June 15, 1920;
children: Lucy King Negley born October 4, 1921 in Owensboro, KY;
Agnes died November 1930, age 39.

      GOLD ladies cuff links with Grandmother's initials, "AJK", circa 1910.   

 10 KARAT bar pin with my Great Aunt's initials on it, "CBN" for Cornelia Bennett Negley.   View   View   #QCBN     

 . Cornelia "Sissie" Bennett Negley

   EDWARDIAN ring with an emerald, a sapphire and a diamond, engraved "CBN" inside the band, circa 1910, a family piece.    View   View  #G22937

  HEART lock and gold link 7" bracelet with 1" lock, engraved "Class of '96, May 20".   View   #V28022

SOLID gold and gold stiffened bracelets.
B. Allen Catalogue, 1899 

    VICTORIAN embossed links 7" bracelet with oval center engraved "RB" and 7/8" lock and key. There is an illegible maker's mark on one link. Bracelets like this can be seen in Romero's Warman's Jewelry Ed. 3 on page 70.   #V28021

STERLING heart shaped scent or perfume bottle engraved "Martha", 2".   View   View   #a51006   

14k GOLD lockets and pendants.
Daniel Low 1906 Catalogue.

   VICTORIAN coin silver charm engraved, "Presented to Mr Mungo Collins by a few friends at Ayr Harbor [Scotland} on the occasion of his leaving for America, Dec 16,1886", a real piece of history, 1-1/3".   View   #V28908

 STERLING WWII Australia coin bracelet engraved "To My Mother", belt style closure circa 1944, 7-1/3" to 7-3/4" by 3/4".   View   #N28686

  VICTORIAN tiny sterling baby photo charm engraved, "But Thou, God's Darling Heed Thy Private Dream, Emerson', 5/8".  View   #V27592  

   STERLING WWII Australia coin bracelet, circa 1944, 6-1/3" by 3/4".   View   View   View   #N27888

   STERLING Forget-Me-Not brand friendship bracelet with engraved name on each link, 7-1/2" by 1/3".   View   View   View   #N28828

 STERLING puffy heart charm with good luck side and engraved "Daddy", 5/8".   View   #N28575     

STERLING friendship bracelet with names and initials engraved on each link and one link dated 9-15-45. The back maker's marks are "JMF Co. BobOLink Sterling", 6-3/4" by 1/4".    View   #N50716

REFERENCES:

Georgian Jewellery, 1714-1830 by Dawes & Collings
Warman's Jewelry, 3rd Edition by Christie Romero
B. Allen Catalogue, 1899 
Daniel Low 1906 Catalogue.
 

 
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