Antique jewelry glossary

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Commemorative jewelry

Articles of jewelry worn to commemorate some occasion, such as a political event, military victory or defeat, or royal marriage, coronation or death, and bearing an appropriate engraved or enamelled reference to the occasion. The most usual such piece was a commemorative ring.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson