#french jet

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Antique Victorian Jet Fly Brooch Enamel Ruby Eyes Pin

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[breezemoonriver]

Uzi with the French jet fringe tiara!

I’m planning to make this a series, I’ve got some more md characters sketched with other tiaras that fit them :3

Uzi—Lizzy

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"French Jet" (black glass) beads: the industry upon which Jean Valjean and Montrueil-sur-Mer thrived in Victor Hugo's Les Miserables

From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw material, which reacted on the manufacture. At the moment when Fantine returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place in the production of “black goods.” Towards the close of 1815 a man, a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired with the idea of substituting, in this manufacture, gum-lac for resin, and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid together, for slides of soldered sheet-iron.

This very small change had effected a revolution.

This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to raise the price of manufacture, a benefit to the country; in the second place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which was a benefit to the manufacturer.

Thus three results ensued from one idea.

In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, which is good, and had made every one about him rich, which is better. He was a stranger in the Department. Of his origin, nothing was known; of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had come to town with very little money, a few hundred francs at the most.

It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside.

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Thanks to the rapid progress of the industry which he had so admirably reconstructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this branch of commerce.

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"Here is the whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a lamp burning spirits of wine to soften the wax. The wax was formerly made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little framework of black iron. The glass must be violet for iron jewellery, and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the country of jet ..."

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"For bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way."

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"We managed to do very well with those glass goods. We rivalled what is called Berlin jewellery. However, we could not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs."

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"I forgot to tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no occasion for surprise at the six hundred thousand francs ... "

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[boylerpf]

Antique Victorian French Jet Chandelier Earrings

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Antique Victorian Chandelier French Jet Earrings

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Antique Victorian French Jet Three Leaf Clover Drop Earrings

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[tiaramania]

French Jet Fringe Tiara

Here’s some more pictures and info about the French Jet Fringe Tiara since people like it so much.  I agree completely with people who commented that it’s the perfect tiara for an evil queen.

These pictures are from when it was sold at Tennants Auction House but they don’t keep their past lots on the website so I don’t know the exact details.

I think it’s the same tiara that is worn here by Emmeline de Rutzen Newnes, Lady Newnes (1873-1939).  The caption for the photo on Alamy says that it’s from the Devonshire House Ball in 1897 but I don’t think that’s correct.  The pictures are from 1913 at the earliest because I can see a wedding ring on her far hand.