Historian and Art Director, Hayden Peters, recently spoke with Collector's weekly and discussed hair jewelry and spoke 
about how mourning jewelry differs from sentimental jewelry.
Hayden is based in Australia and has a website called The Art of Mourning where he discusses mourning, memorial and sentimental jewellery, funeralia and art.
In the interview, Mr Peters talks about his personal collection of mourning jewelry and discusses the elements of hair jewelry, mourning jewelry, and other types of sentimental jewelry, as well as cultural influences which are reflected in both types. The interview is very comprehensive and gives a lot of information about this area of collecting.
Collectors or mourning jewelry look for Victorian pieces which originated in the UK, so I found it interesting when Hayden talked about how prevalent mourning jewelry is in antique stores in countries like Czechoslovakia.
For more information about hair jewelry you can read the whole interview with Hayden Peters at Collector's weekly.
Photo courtesy http://artofmourning.com
