Antique WWI Mourning Jewelry, Engraved May 6, 1918, 16k Pendant w 4 mm Seed Pearls, Enamel Fanny de Beauharnais An exquisite addition to your

An exquisite addition to your existing fine silver service or French vermeil tea set

You can see why

cabinet maker to the king (1642-1732)

around 200 years old now

Elongated hinge/clasp orientation

Antique WWI Mourning Jewelry, Engraved May 6, 1918, 16k Pendant w 4 mm Seed Pearls, Enamel Fanny de Beauharnais An exquisite addition to yourA beautiful pendant, appears to be a mourning cross for a lost loved on who died May 6th, 1918, perhaps a WWI soldier. Of course that was just the time that Spanish Flu was taking lives in enormous numbers, and we can't know. It is 16k gold, has an outer framing of deep blue enamel, which would have represented the evening sky of dusk, often a color used in mourning pieces. Likewise, the pearls, which not technically seed pearls at 4 mm, were