Antique Victorian Czech floral jet black glass belt bag buckle mourning jewelry

Vintage Antique Victorian Czech Bohemian geometric floral jet black mourning glass belt, bag or shoe buckle. A wonderful piece of glass history with beautiful hand finished glass elements. With metal loops for sewing on to the cloth. This is hand molded and finished glass and will inevitably have small reverse nicks. Stunning and unique piece of jewelry or wonderful additional to museum or private collection.
For fashion design, sewing and crafting.

Size: 10.8cm x 5.4cm; 4.25" x 2.15". 
Material: Glass. Metal.
Year: Vintage 1900's
Condition: Authentic vintage condition.
Quantity: 1

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,