Victorian Assemblage | “Lover’s Eye”Lovers Eyes are portrait miniatures in jewelry exchanged as romantic keepsakes in the early 19th century. They depict just the eye of the beloved, and so are associated with clandestine romances. They were a real flash in the pan trend and only among a very small group of privileged participants, so real lovers eyes are very scarce, prohibitively expensive, & widely faked. Cant afford a real one? Cool, me neither. But you can still have something

which has also since closed

though it DOES play on my turntable

large format Victorian photo of a woman costumed in a resplendent white gown

The glass is missing

These delicately pierced cards are known as a canivets

I left them as is: I like to see this kind of wear on my pieces and would choose not to clean them if I kept them

New and uninformed collectors see salvage like this and worry that things like this came to market through dishonest means

The ashtray is in excellent condition without chips or cracks

Opinion was split on how children should be dressed in mourning

There is some hair loss and debris that has fallen to the bottom of the box over the decades

but mostly you see the same designs from Currier & Ives (occasionally Kellogg) over & over

Novelization in paperback of one of the most notorious X-rated movies ever made during the Golden Age of Porn