The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16
CORONATION JEwELRY.
Thousands of Trinkets to Commem 1,f III


 Thousands of Trinkets to Comment
 crate Browning of King Edward
 It is still a far cry to coronation day,
 but enterprising jewellers, both in Lon
 don and Birmingham, are bestirring
 themselves in view of that important
 event, The great proprtion of British jewellers have their establishments in
 the Midland capital. In the "jewelry
 quarter" as the large district is called
 in which this important and enormous industry is carried on, emanates the greater part of the jewelry worn throughout the world, from the costly pearls and diamonds worn by the veal
 thiest in the land to the humble brooch
 of the factory girl. Articles may bear the name of London or Glasgow firms, but their origin can be traced to
 "Brummagen," It is to Birmingham, ! therefore, that the bulk of the orders ! for jewelry to be worn at the corona
 ton will come, and, indeed, are conn ing.
 , At this early period it is not easy to say what will be worn but there are one or two points on which definite in formation can be obtained. There will, for instance, be a few new coronets to manufacture; others will have to be repaired and regilded Peers and peeresses who attend the ceremony have explicit instructions that real silver balls and not imitation pearls, are to be used and regulations are laid down affecting the gold strawberry leaves on the coronets of dukes, mar pulses and earsl
 The history of coronets of England dates back to the coronation of Edward III. though it was not till some time afterWard that they were divided into orders. Thus the coronet of a duke has above the rim of eight strawberry leaves, the coronet of a marquis has four strawberry leaves alternating with as many large pearls upon short points; the coronet of an earl has eight points of more considerable height with a pearl set on each, alternating with as many strawberry leaves on the rim be- low. Viscounts and barons are also en- titled to wear coronets, those of the | former having sixteen and those of the | latter six pearls, set directly on the rim. | Of course, only a few firms will be af- 1 fected by the demand for new coronets, l but one or two orders are already plac | ed. The people who wear coronets are | not many, and for the most part peers will look up ancestral coronets and | have them touched up and altered in keeping with the official instructions
 It is evident that at the coronation lord mayors and lady mayors, mayors and mayoresses, provosts and lady provosts will blossom forth in all the glory of new chains Quite a number of these are on order from various parts of the country. All of them will com the occasion in some way. So far popular method is to have min iature portrait of Queen Alexandra in- serted in the center, just as in the Dia- mond Jubilee year portrait of the late Queen Victoria was worked in In an- other instance special link in the shape of the new royal arms is being Some corporations. which do not aspire to entirely new chains, are having a festoon of links added to the old ones, with one link specially de- signed to commemorate the event.
 The American craze for collecting spoons has been turned to good account by number of Birming- ham jewellers. and as there will almost be large influx of Ameri- 3ans into this country at the time of he coronation steps are being taken to meet their wishes. Thus thousands of hese spoons will be manufactured some with the head of the King in gold on the top of the handle, others with he royal arms, or some other distin- suishing mark which will associate the spoon with the coronation. At the present time more of these ouvenir spoons are sold in Liverpool (