Vintage Memento Mori Style Enamel Skull Stick Pin With Diamond Eyes Vintage Forget me nots and Ivy

Forget me nots and Ivy were a popular combination in the Victorian era

It’s a wonderful design displaying exquisite workmanship and is accompanied by its original fitted box with a lovely blue/ violet velvet exterior and interior

MEASURES: Length 20

A wonderful antique Victorian watch key pendant from the late 19th Century fashioned in 15ct gold and inlaid with three polished seals around the outside consisting of brown and blue-lace agates and a bloodstone with speckled red spots

substantial chain and is complete with its original clasps

Vintage Memento Mori Style Enamel Skull Stick Pin With Diamond Eyes Vintage Forget me nots and IvyA wonderful Memento Mori style stick pin from the late 20th Century topped with a silver skull painted in white enamel and set with two sparkling old mine cut diamond eyes (approx. 0. 06ct each). Such macabre imagery was common in Memento Mori jewellery, which literally translates as Remember you will die. The pieces were commonly decorated with skulls, crossbones, and coffins but the morbid themes were not a celebration of death, rather a reminder to