Antique Jet Jewelry

Antique Jet Jewelry. Azabache is the Spanish name for jet and Azabache jet from coastal Spain is popular among pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago. It is light in weight and soft and warm to the touch.

Antique Victorian Mourning Jewelry Whitby Jet Large ... (Roy Gibbs)

Characterised by its dark black aesthetic, it's super-smooth, lightweight and extremely malleable. Made of jet, vulcanite, bog oak or pressed horn, each carried special meaning as a memento of a loved one. Gathered from what could be found loose on the ground, jet was used to carve decorative objects, beads, and jewelry since ancient times.

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Unlike coal that's used for fuel, jet forms in salt water rather than on land.

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See more ideas about victorian, mourning jewelry, jewelry. Jet, a type of fossilized wood, was perhaps the rarest and most prized black material used to manufacture Victorian jewelry. Jet is as light as plastic, and hard and coal-like in material.