
This is the final aquamarine and diamond pendant I settled on for Angie. It’s fantastic, too. Diamonds, aquamarines, and pearls in a platinum setting. Jewels were a big status item in the Gilded Age (1870 – 1915). Some wealthy women would go to balls literally dripping in diamonds and other precious gems. One husband hired a private detective to follow his wife all night for fear of robbery!
This is the fun part of research for a novel.
Ha! The private detective is a hoot–what a pain! Unless of course, the husband was worried his wife was getting in some other sorts of trouble too.
Research is half the fun of writing historical fiction!
I love the dragonfly pin. That's pretty. I've spent way too much time online researching a piece of jewelry for my characters. And I don't even have to worry about getting the time period correct.
Isn't that pin cool? I had someone else tell me they loved it but where would they wear it? And I said, If I owned it, I'd be happy just to look at it. A work of art. Thanks for stopping by.