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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 13:26 GMT (UK)  »
Think I’ve found it! They were called puzzle brooches/earrings, sometimes the lady’s name, but also often A, E, I, representing amity, eternity, infinity. Seems like they were popular in later 1800s, often unmarked silver. The lady who owned these was born in 1865 so that would fit.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 13:02 GMT (UK)  »
Just google searched the photo and found several examples of same image for sale on Et*y. Screen shot attached (hope that’s not breaking rules). Wonder what its significance was?

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 12:55 GMT (UK)  »
Trying to get a better photo

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 12:48 GMT (UK)  »
The central straight part could be interpreted as a separate part, possibly giving a letter I as well as the M and E or W.

The lady’s grandparents had initials W and M - William and Maria - but they were still not well off - he was a bricklayer, and their children were charwoman/servants.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 11:41 GMT (UK)  »
Back of earring. Sorry don’t know how to make pics smaller.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 11:28 GMT (UK)  »
No, no marks on back at all

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 10:36 GMT (UK)  »
The earrings

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Earrings
« on: Sunday 29 December 24 10:26 GMT (UK)  »
I have the earrings in the photo, which I think belonged to my g-g-grandmother - seen in other photo around 1915.

The earrings look like entwined initials, E and M, which don’t fit with anyone obvious in the family.

I wondered if anyone knows about earrings from Victorian/Edwardian era - are these typical? Might they be second hand, so initials are not relevant? The family were not well off at all so I can’t imagine her ever affording personalised jewellery.

Any thoughts or general information would be appreciated.

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Free Photo Restoration & Date Old Photographs / Re: Mason?? 'Too Grand...' id please
« on: Wednesday 01 June 22 04:30 BST (UK)  »
It’s great to see someone wearing the same collar style as my man!
From a quick google, although Oddfellows and masons were separate organisations, some people were in both.

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