Victorian Jewelry spanned the years 1837 to 1901, commencing with an awakening interest in naturalism and terminating with the Aesthetic period during the Late Victorian Era where c onspicuous consumption became less socially acceptable and ‘society' became more aware of the hideous labor conditions and poverty that existed in England . Early Victorian Jewelry depicted Queen Victoria's passion for Medieval Romanticism and Scottish jewelry popularized coral, ivory, seed-pearls, tortoise shell, bog oak, horn, hair, ammonite fossils, petrified wood, granite, opercula, marble and Blue John in particular. The death of Prince Albert in 1861 began a 25 year period of mourning and the commencement of the Suffragette movement, jewelry and clothing steadily turned black both at court and in the country.
Victorian Jewelry spanned the years 1837 to 1901, commencing with an awakening interest in naturalism and terminating with the Aesthetic period during the Late Victorian Era where c onspicuous consumption became less socially acceptable and ‘society' became more aware of the hideous labor conditions and poverty that existed in England . Early Victorian Jewelry depicted Queen Victoria's passion for Medieval Romanticism and Scottish jewelry popularized coral, ivory, seed-pearls, tortoise shell, bog oak, horn, hair, ammonite fossils, petrified wood, granite, opercula, marble and Blue John in particular. The death of Prince Albert in 1861 began a 25 year period of mourning and the commencement of the Suffragette movement, jewelry and clothing steadily turned black both at court and in the country. 
