Excellent condition. Fresh looking, soft wear is noticeable only on close inspection.

● Setting has a bright patina with minor surface wear, a few small and shallow dings at back of bracelet. Light wear to vermeil finish, so piece has a light gold patina that is slightly more silvery at the back.
● Clasp is original and secure (with original safety chain).



Era Late Victorian
Length 6 1/2" (inside circumference)
Width 3/4"
Mark Yes, see photo (800 on tongue of clasp)
Weight 12 grams
Material 800 silver


Unique Features
Made by hand or in small groups of similar styles, vintage jewelry is individualistic with its own special story.

● Buckle motif was popular during Victorian era and symbolized binding loyalty.
● Detailed design is raised from bracelet's face for dimensional effect. Organic patterning across buckle resembles snake skin and was etched by hand.
● Oval shape allows piece to wrap firmly around wrist keeping buckle design upright when worn.

Collector Note

On Symbolism In Jewelry. Symbolism in antique and vintage jewelry is common, yet it can be hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for. Often, specific natural gemstones, flowers, birds, and motifs like stars and anchors were imbued with meanings that have fallen out of present-day society's collective memory. To appreciate the power of symbols in antique jewelry is to imagine what it would have been like to wear the piece and step back into history.


On Victorian. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria's taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid.