||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Is it really "jet" jewelry?|By Jan Odegaard|You need resources like this book to know.... I've collected mourning memorabilia and jewelry for 20 years and in all but a few cases dealers sell pieces as "jet" simply because they are black. This small book gives the history of true jet, found in Yorkshire, England, from ancient times to its almost complete decline. R|About the Author|Helen Muller has studied the Whitby jet industry and its products for much of her life, and she is one of the best known and respected figures in the field. She was awarded the Tully Medal of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain.||Kate
Jet, a hard, black, shiny gem closely related to coal, has been fashioned into jewelry and trinkets for generations. During the Victorian period, when the ritual surrounding death and the long mourning of Queen Victoria made black fashionable, jet became hugely popular. Although jet is found elsewhere in the world, it is the jet from Whitby that excites collectors to such an extent that even jet jewelry manufactured elsewhere is often called Whitby Jet. This book traces...
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