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Transatlantic cable souvenir jewelry: a slice of history.
Diamonds in the LibraryTransatlantic cable souvenir jewelry is an exceptionally niche subset of antique jewelry – and a particularly fascinating one!
I’m betting most of you haven’t seen one of these before…but don’t worry, I’m going to tell you allllllll about them.
Transatlantic cable souvenir jewelry: a slice of history.
What even is transatlantic cable souvenir jewelry? To adequately answer this question, we need to talk about the history of the world’s first transatlantic cable.
For most of human existence, the only way to communicate across distance was to have a message delivered by hand. That’s why it was so revolutionary when the telegraph was invented in the early 1800’s: suddenly you could send messages all over the country!
