An interesting type of jewelry

This is an interesting page that shows "mourning" or remembrance jewelry . mourning rings or hair lockets were quite popular up to about a hundred years ago.

https://www.scribd.com/document/250901510/Departing-This-Earth-Mourning

Dan

Thanks for the link! I will definitely check this out! I haven't given up hope in finding some information on my mourning button. I forgot to tell you that the Smithsonian said they couldn't help me but I was free to peruse their files in person.