THE  SOCIAL  HISTORY  OF  FLATBUSH


by Gertrude Lefferts Vanderbilt

1887


JEWELRY


    If there was much jewelry worn by the young men and maidens in Flatbush 
before the Revolutionary War, there is very little of it now remaining except 
some few rings, brooches, and the knee- and shoe-buckles which fromed so 
important a part of the gentlemen's dress.

    The jewelry worn in New York in 1770-1780 may be judged from the 
jewelers' advertisements, one of whom speaks of himself as "the only real 
Maker in this city of Ladies 
Sett Shoe buckles, 
Ear rings, 
Egrets, 
Springs and hair pins, 
Seals, 
Necklaces, 
Combs, 
Crosses and Lockets, 
Sleeve buttons 
and rings. 

The above articles done in the neatest and best manner and sold as 
cheap as in London, wholesale or retail."



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