Lover's Heart Pendant

This one-of-a-kind necklace is composed of:

• Art Deco, sterling silver dress pin from the early 1900-1920s featuring an intertwined heart pendant with crystal rhinestone details. This piece was sourced in England.
  

• This necklace measures a standard 18” on a modern14k gold filled chain with the pendant measuring 2” in width.

The History:

Found in Celtic designs, Egyptian sculptures and ancient Greek jewelry, the association of love and knots have appeared in many different cultures throughout history. In the 19^th century, sailors would wear a love knot bracelet woven out of rope as a reminder of their loved ones at home - which also acted as a talisman of safety while at sea. Another legend tells the story of young lovers tying two small tree branches together to form a lover’s knot: if the knot stayed tied for a year, they were destined to be together.

By the time the Victorian Era came around, the love knot was already well established as a symbol of love - one whose interwoven design "joined people together for eternity". The love knot, like the forget-me-not flower, the arrow and the swallow, became part of a language of love that found the perfect expression in jewels from this period.