Victorian French Jet Crepe Stone Black Glass Mourning Cufflinks Patent Dec 1883

These Antique Crepe Stone Square Mourning Cufflinks are a practical and elegant accessory, featuring a patented design from December 1883. In great condition with some nibbles on the reverse, as can be expected from jewelry over 125 years old. A wonderful, wearable piece of history! From a pet-free and smoke-free home. French Jet and Crepe Stone are molded black glass, and not truly jet at all. There was not enough natural jet available to meet the demands of 19th-century fashion, so French jet was produced in the late Victorian era as an alternative to hand-carved Whitby jet. Thanks for looking! Please check out my other listings, as I have decades of Vintage, Gothic, and Alternative items that I'm working through selling, and I am just starting to list items from my antique jewelry collection. French jet jewelry, Victorian jewellery, antique jewelry, mourning jewelry, Victorian mourning, gothic, Victorian goth, sentimental jewelry, Victorian fashion, Victorian era, Memento Mori, Black Glass, finely ribbed, ridge pattern, ridged, ridges, corded texture, textured, formal wear, unique gift