Gerard DiLeo
Bio
Retired, not tired. Hippocampus, behave!
Make me rich! https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-DiLeo/e/B00JE6LL2W/
My substrack at https://substack.com/@drdileo
Achievements (14)
Stories (874)
Filter by community
269 All That Glittered, Glitters On
Every piece of jewelry tells a story. Nowhere is this truer than with estate jewelry. I recently bought my wife a "mourning" bracelet. For those unfamiliar, this type of jewelry's history is long, going back to the 16th Century and becoming popular in the 19th Century, especially in the Georgian era (1714–1837). The earliest types included macabre death-like symbols according to the traditional adage, memento mori ("Remember, we all die"). Queen Victoria, after Prince Albert died in 1861, mourned his death for 40 years. This made black jewelry fashionable in the Victorian era.
By Gerard DiLeoabout a year ago in Fiction
