Victorian Victorian Era Vintage Engagement Rings
Shop online or visit our store in seattle washington.
Victorian victorian era vintage engagement rings. However victorian rings were generally yellow or rose gold and often included diamonds. Victorian engagement rings were made and worn the victorian era from 1837 1901. We also collect rare victorian era georgian era and retro engagement rings. Truly vintage engagement rings are from the 1980 s or older which includes all the earlier periods as well.
Victorian era rings embraced a variety of styles from romantic and floral to sculptured and bold. Shop antique victorian jewelry dating from the 1830 s through the 1900 s with rose cut and miners cut diamonds silver lockets chains and bangles and much more. Victoria went into a period of mourning when her dear husband died in 1861 inspiring the use of gold lockets and darkened rustic like pieces. Antique vintage 3 00 ct asscher diamond halo victorian edwardian 1837 1910 ring 133 00 art deco 2 5ct round diamond wedding engagement ring edwardian 1837 1910 vintage.
Our range of vintage jewelry includes delicate edwardian engagement rings as well as the fashion forward art deco engagement rings. Most rings made during this time are made in yellow gold rose gold and silver. Popular victorian ring styles like clusters make distinctive choices for vintage engagement rings while sweetly detailed victorian wedding rings and multi stone bands work well with vintage and antique engagement rings of many eras or all on their own. If you ve got a sentimental feeling about shiny things we know we do then antique victorian jewelry is for you.
Because of this jewellery historians tend to group victorian rings into three timelines early victorian mid victorian and late victorian at which point you can begin to see the definite leaning towards an edwardian style. Following the georgian era and just before the edwardian era. Married in 1840 queen victoria wore a snake motif ring set with her green emerald birthstone as her engagement ring. Victorian era 1835 1900 in the victorian era engagement rings vary widely in designs and materials.
These eras are the inspiration for our company name eragem. In the victorian era it was very common for birthstones to be used instead of diamonds for engagement rings. During the victorian era the pearl was considered to be symbolic of the bride s tear and thus a bad omen. Victorian rings will most often showcase rose old mine cushion and marquise cut diamonds.
Solitaire engagement rings were very popular during the victorian era often in diamond or a subtly colored stone. In fact victorian jewelry can be subdivided into early middle and late period styles. While most stones were acceptable as proper engagement rings one wasn t.