The Peabody Essex Museum and Jeweler Jenni Stuart Revive Salem’s 19th-Century Friendship Rings

Elizabeth Ropes Orne, like many young women of the 19th century, marked the important relationships in her life with the intimate gesture of gifting a delicate ring. Elizabeth gave one to a friend— possibly her girlhood companion Sarah Stone—engraved ERO to S. Stone. In return, she received another inscribed AMB to ERO. In 1842, these tokens of friendship took on deeper meaning when Elizabeth died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-four. Now, friendships of all kinds can be celebrated with high-quality reproductions of these Victorian-style rings, thanks to a unique collaboration between the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) and Jenni Stuar

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The Peabody Essex Museum and Jeweler Jenni Stuart Revive Salem’s 19th-Century Friendship Rings

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