Victorian Dinosaurs Silver Cuff Bangle tourmaline London 1977

London 1977

English hallmarks for Sterling Silver

with Grecian Names

it dates from the early 20th Century

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Victorian Dinosaurs Silver Cuff Bangle tourmaline London 1977DATE: Victorian, c. 1870 The Crystal Palace Dinosaurs were commissioned in 1852 under the direction of celebrated palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen, and were the first dinosaur sculptures in the world. Obviously they caused something of a sensation in Victorian society (people had only seen drawings of these giant lizardoids) and inspired works by Charles Dickens, HG Wells, and George Baxter amongst others. By today's scientific reasoning they're quite