Queen Victoria was born in 1819, she became queen in 1837 at the young age of 18. In 1840, she married her first cousin, Prince Albert. They had 9 children together. Their marriage life was ideally perfect, but the bright and happy years were doomed to a tragic ending. His untimely death (after a sudden illness) in 1861, just months after the death of her mother, left her devastated and she went into a deep mourning that would last for the rest of her life.
She took to wearing black jet buttons on her somber black costumes, a habit her subjects and others around the world took to. The scarce supply of true jet brought about its imitation..BLACK GLASS.
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Sometimes you find antique/vintage cards of black glass buttons which are labeled JET..they are NOT..jet refers to the color as these are black glass.
"The Victorian Era" 1837-1901..Queen Victoria died in 1901
I have a variety of black glass buttons for sale under the black glass category @ Pegs Buttons
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