This is Queen Victoria’s coronation ring. It is meant to be placed on the little finger. However, the Archbishop placed it on the wrong finger. He forced it on so tight that Queen Victoria had to soak her hand in ice water to remove it.
(via ifiwerescience)
Ram Horn and Wild Flower Headdress, by Briar & Gloam (Etsy)
Soft cream yarn and hand folded paper flowers give this headdress a warm earthy touch.
Daisies, peonies, a rose,a daffodil, a dogwood flower, a morning glory and ivy all nestle around glorious rams horns, making a headdress suitable for any masquerade or Midsummer celebration.
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ca. 1860’s, [small part of a collection of 570 anatomically perfect glass sculptures of jellyfishes, octopus, squid, anemones, and nudibranchs], Father-and-son glassmakers Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka
via Cornell University, Albert R. Mann Library, Blaschka Collection of Invertebrate Models
‘THE ROUCHOMOVSKY SKELETON’: A RUSSIAN GOLD ARTICULATED SKELETON IN SILVER-GILT SARCOPHAGUS: the fully articulated human skeleton in a velvet-lined coffin chased around on each side with three panels showing the course of life, one end with attributes of the arts, the other with attributes of war, the removable cover with the journey in the footsteps of the Angel of Death, surrounded by the faces of infants alternately laughing and crying.
Skeleton by Israel Rouchomovsky ca. 1892-1896; sarcophagus by Mozyr and Odessa ca. 1896-1906