Victorian Black Cat "Stanhope" Pitlochry Souvenir Pendant malachite In Victorian symbolic tradition

In Victorian symbolic tradition

1cm - Head: 3

with an hourglass (indicating time has stopped for the deceased) on one shoulder and a pickaxe and spade on the other (the gravediggers' tools)

which was left to her illicit lover General Charles FitzRoy

tests as 18k gold and silver

Victorian Black Cat "Stanhope" Pitlochry Souvenir Pendant malachite In Victorian symbolic traditionDATE: Victorian, c. 1880 A very, very strange antique "stanhope" pendant dating from the latter half of the 19th Century. It's made of carved bog oak (a form of petrified wood) and formed as a black cat but the cool part is in its chest: a tiny "micro photographic" lens that you can look through to bring up "A Memory of Pitlochry" along with a series of miniature photographs documenting the local scenery and attractions. A small town in Perthshire,