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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Looking at the pieces of mourning jewelry in my collection gives a picture of traditions following the death of a family member in the 18th and 19th centuries. As early as the 1700s in England, rings ...

I: Historical background -- Memento Mori: death in the Middle Ages -- La Mort de Toi: death of "the other" in the Age of Enlightenment -- The finger of the Lord hath done it: death in Colonial America ...