Cravat & tie pins: past and present

Abstract

This book, illustrated with coloured photographs, explains the chronological development and fascinating history of these distinctive and rather neglected items of jewellery, created by talented craftsmen from around 1760 to just after the Second World War. Some areas researched include: Origins and early developments; Progress of cravat prins during the late 18th and early 19th century; travels in Europe and increasing popularity of male jewellery; the flowering of tie pins in the mid- and late-Victorian period; new movements, great names and royal tie pins; pins and presentation boxes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; places to further your interest in cravat and tie pins.