Antique French 18k Gold and Black Enamel, Pearl, Double Locket, Mourning Pendant or Brooch in Box Porcelain plaque Elegant antique French COMPLETE matching

Elegant antique French COMPLETE matching 9pc sterling silver serving utensil or implement set including meat carving knife & fork

(Vernis Martin)

a single sterling silver with 18k gold (vermeil) coating liquor flask like that one

Someone's treasure

it was accepted science then that a sick person had 'humours' in the blood

Antique French 18k Gold and Black Enamel, Pearl, Double Locket, Mourning Pendant or Brooch in Box Porcelain plaque Elegant antique French COMPLETE matchingWith the double locks of hair still beautifully kept in the locket backside, mourning a dark and a very pale blond, this elegant 18k gold French mourning locket has been kept rather than worn. When I see hair like this, my experience suggests to me it is likely a locket that mourned a young mother and her infant. Perhaps the perished together of disease, which was not so uncommon at all in the mid 1800s, from which period this piece hails. Children