The Brilliant Cut Blog

I was inspired to write this post after a recent tweet by Lindsey Fitzharris - if you don't follow her, you really should. Lindsey - a medical historian - was discussing glass eyes in the 19th century, and tweeted an example of a glass eye that had been set into a mourning ring on the death of its owner. A bit (a lot) creepy, right? By today's standards, oh hell yes! But by Victorian standards....yeah OK still creepy. A Victorian glass eye mourning ring via https://twitter.com/DrLindseyFitzM Glass eyes aside, sentimental jewellery, with its central theme of love and remembrance, was...