THE MACABRE & THE BOLD

This is a brooch containing a lock of Edgar Allan Poe’s hair. It was Sarah Elmira Royster Given to Shelton, who was Poe’s adolescent sweetheart and Became engaged to him shortly before his death in 1849.

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    this was originaly greaving jewlry. normaly made with a lock of the dead loved one’s hair. it was worn for the time of...

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