Antique Victorian Shakespeare Rock Crystal Intaglio Seal Fob Pendant c.1870 duck this bracelet measures 6

this bracelet measures 6

mostly hidden by the finger when worn

but sometime in the 100 or so years since he was made

The Victorians admired bees as symbols of devotion

Antique Victorian Shakespeare Rock Crystal Intaglio Seal Fob Pendant c.1870 duck this bracelet measures 6There is something wonderfully intellectual and romantic about this unusual Victorian seal fob, as though it once belonged to a devoted reader, a collector of rare books, or someone who carried Shakespeare close at hand not merely as literature, but as philosophy. Beneath the softly glowing dome of carved rock crystal rests the profile of the Bard himself, his unmistakable face emerging from within the stone like a memory preserved in glass. The