Czech jet black mourning glass necklace with pendant. This is a newly produced necklace made with vintage components and using traditional techniques to re-create Victorian mourning jewelry. With black oval faceted, teardrop and seed glass beads and finished with a silver tone lobster clasp.

The necklace strands measure 32 inches 

The pendant measures 6cm or 2.35 inches.

The idea of imitating precious jet started in the 19th century. Production of glass "jet" began in the Jablonec area in the 1860's. Originally, the pressed glass was bonded with resin on to a solid metal base. After 1877, Gebruder Feix patented the riveting of glass stones onto metal bases. However, the real revolution came in the 1880's when production began by tin-soldering glass stones with sealed metal tubes on to a wire base. The boom in black costume jewelry making in Czech continued until the turn of the century and by the 1920's had virtually gone out of fashion.