Sentimental Jewellery by Ann Louise Luthi

Sentimental Jewellery by Ann Louise Luthi

A concise introduction to the history of sentimental jewellery.

The author describes the origins of mourning and other sentimental jewellery and helps the reader to identify these appealing jewels, which can tell us much about the way in which our ancestors lived, loved and died.

By no means all of it is linked to death. Many attractive pieces were given as tokens of affection, sometimes inscribed with personalised messages and often very elaborately designed. The use of certain symbols, stones and motifs offers a coded glimpse into the meaning of each individual jewel, and makes them particularly intriguing to modern collectors.

Ann Louise Luthi is a member of the Society of Jewellery Historians and a Senior Member of St Anne’s College, Oxford. As well as writing and lecturing widely on the subject, she has also done extensive work with the jewellery collections held at the British Museum.

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ISBN 13	9780747803638
ISBN 10	0747803633
Title	Sentimental Jewellery
Author	Ann Louise Luthi
Series	Shire Library
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2007-10-01
Number of pages	40
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