Victorian Lobster Claw Pendant pearl Wild modernist pyramid earrings set

Wild modernist pyramid earrings set with orange sapphires and brilliant cut diamonds

even life-saving in a society that expects our meekness

19th century naturalists

It's sleek and streamlined

Victorian Lobster Claw Pendant pearl Wild modernist pyramid earrings setIts a lobster claw and it was mounted in the Victorian era, around 1900. The claw itself evokes opulence and extravagance, but its quite plainly mounted (in silver, sure but still), nothing too fancy. A contradiction. So who would have made this worn this and why? At the beginning of the 1800s, lobster was a garbage meat thought only fit for cats, prisoners, and fertiliser on farmers fields. A meat known as "poor man's chicken", lobsters were so