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Antique Coach Covers

Antique Coach Covers

Measuring approx. 14mm in diameter, with scrolling patterned surface, fashioned in 14k yellow gold. Hinged to open and cover earring drops. Diamond drop earrings sold separately here.

Coach covers were a late 19th century innovation. In this period, travel was by horse drawn coach. Wealthy travelers were appealing targets for robbers and highwaymen. Coach covers were designed to snap over diamond earrings, making them look like less valuable gold earrings.

Coach covers also helped a woman adhere to the strict Victorian social mores. Decorum dictated that diamonds could not be worn during the day. Coach covers covered the diamonds considered inappropriate for daytime wear, then easily removed for evening.
$1,382.50

Original: $3,950.00

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Antique Coach Covers—

$3,950.00

$1,382.50

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Measuring approx. 14mm in diameter, with scrolling patterned surface, fashioned in 14k yellow gold. Hinged to open and cover earring drops. Diamond drop earrings sold separately here.

Coach covers were a late 19th century innovation. In this period, travel was by horse drawn coach. Wealthy travelers were appealing targets for robbers and highwaymen. Coach covers were designed to snap over diamond earrings, making them look like less valuable gold earrings.

Coach covers also helped a woman adhere to the strict Victorian social mores. Decorum dictated that diamonds could not be worn during the day. Coach covers covered the diamonds considered inappropriate for daytime wear, then easily removed for evening.
Antique Coach Covers | Doyle & Doyle