Georgian Sea Bean Scent Bottle custom Striking vintage drop earrings set

Striking vintage drop earrings set with vivid blood-red garnet teardrop cabochons

Enamelled silver box dating from the late Victorian period and featuring a woman sitting on a rock in the middle of the sea

cross-hatched scales

Condition: Excellent

Georgian Sea Bean Scent Bottle custom Striking vintage drop earrings setSea beans are tropical nuts and seeds from South America or Caribbean. They drop into rivers, travel out to sea, and are carried away by the gulf stream to occasionally wash up on the shores of the British Isles, often years later. The fact they would sometimes sprout into wonderfully exotic tropical trees and plants meant that British folklore considers them to be lucky amulets, particularly for sea traveller, coast dweller and birthing women. The