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Victorian Chains

Victorian Chains Example 1
For much of the 19th century chain were made by hand-working skills. Because of the work involved, craftsmen avoided very fine links and chains were designed carefully in order to reduce the time making them. This is understandable. I myself tried my hand at silversmithing and very well know how much work can go into a single piece, yet alone a bunch of chain links! So these craftsman used their ingenuity and made longer links. Made sense. Some of the chains were made from hundreds of tiny stampings which needed no soldering.


Victorian Chains Pic 1
As you can see in this pic, there are three chains above
(the left three) that are machine stamped and connected with O rings.


Victorian Chains Pic 2
The Graduated Curb Chain is typical example of labor intensive chainmaking. The Loop-In-Loop chain is of ancient origin and there are many clever variations on this simple basic idea. The advantage was that each loop could be soldered before being assembled, thus preventing the problem of accidentally soldering a number of links together.

 

Watch Chains
The watch chain served the practical function of allowing the watch to be taken from the pocket and retained securely while being used. The Albert Chain was a long chain which was secured at the center to one of the buttonholes of the waistcoat and hung in curves to pockets on each side. (SEE BELOW)

Albert Watch Chain
Ladies Rolled Plate Victoria Chains
c 1892 Variety of Ladies' Rolled Plate Victoria Chains

Rolled Plate Dicken Vest Chains

 

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