My parents began giving me antique jewelry when I was a girl. Our family had a friend who was an antiques dealer, and Mrs. Carlson's store had a pirate's booty of Victorian seed-pearl and garnet ...

Mr. Rau said there were many distinguishing elements of Victorian jewelry, chief among them delicate gold work such as filigree and repoussé and the use of seed pearls, enamel and a wide variety ...

The gold-and-seed pearl pin was a gift from Queen Victoria herself. The gold double-heart pin was owned by a relative of a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, and the pin was gifted from the queen ...

Pearls have swarmed the ... from the 2000-year-old pearl necklace belonging to a Persian princess found in a sarcophagus, to the seed pearls of the Victorian era and most recently Lanvin's ...