Victorian Pique Mourning Brooch

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Available from Isadora's Antique Jewlery when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Circa 1880. This type of fabulous pique brooch was especially fashionable in mid-Victorian England (1860s-1880s). Pique was often used in mourning jewelry, hair accessories, brooches, lockets, and earrings. Queen Victoria's long mourning period after Prince Albert’s death made dark-toned accessories deeply popular, and pique’s brown-black tone with gold accents was the perfect mix of subtlety and luxury.