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Hair Combs
The most popular jewelry worn on the head during the late Victorian era were elegant and jeweled hair combs. The favored feminine Chignon (hairstyle) of the time period in England fared a perfect match with this jewelry as the hair comb would rest fittingly atop the highest point of the topknot on the back of the neck. Although hair ornaments in general were still worn towards the beginning of the Romantic Period, it wasn’t until the mid-late 19th century during the start of the Grand Period in the Victorian Era that really highlighted the beauty of this jewelry.

The most common fashionable hair comb of this time would be one made with the foundation of tortoiseshell teeth and a metal or jeweled heading. The more elegant of hair combs created in the late 19th century would be set with faceted crystals or pearls with black or white enamel at the base. Victorian combs progressed from symmetrical and uniform designs to being more unique and asymmetrical jewelry pieces with signs of openwork later in the 1890's.