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2. Medieval jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Medieval jewelry. The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in gold and ronde bosse enamel, about 1400. The Middle Ages was a period that spanned approximately 1000 years and is normally restricted to Europe and the Byzantine Empire. The material remains we have from that time, including jewelry, can vary greatly depending on the place and time ...

3. Locket - Wikipedia

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   Locket. A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item such as a lock of hair. Lockets are usually given to loved ones on holidays such as Valentine's Day and occasions such as christenings, weddings and, most noticeably during the Victorian Age, funerals. Historically, they often opened to ...

4. Etsy - Wikipedia

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   Etsy, Inc. is an American e-commerce company with an emphasis on the selling of handmade or vintage items and craft supplies. These items fall under a wide range of categories, including jewelry, bags, clothing, home decor, religious items, furniture, toys, art, as well as craft supplies and tools. Items described as vintage must be at least 20 ...

5. Native American jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Wanesia Spry Misquadace (Fond du Lac Ojibwe), jeweler and birch bark biter, 2011 [1]Native American jewelry refers to items of personal adornment, whether for personal use, sale or as art; examples of which include necklaces, earrings, bracelets, rings and pins, as well as ketohs, wampum, and labrets, made by one of the Indigenous peoples of the United States.

6. Marcasite jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Marcasite jewellery has been made since the time of the ancient Greeks. [3] It was particularly popular in the eighteenth century, the Victorian era and with Art Nouveau jewellery designers. [3] [2] When diamonds were banned from public display in Switzerland in the 18th century, marcasite, along with cut steel, was turned to as a replacement. [4]

7. Pandora's box - Wikipedia

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   Pandora's box. A pithos from Crete, c. 675 BC. Louvre. Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod 's c. 700 B.C. poem Works and Days. [1] Hesiod related that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing curses upon mankind.