Last-Minute Gifts From the 16th Century
“Each bead of the rosary represents the bust of a well-fed burgher or maiden on one side, and a skeleton on the other. The terminals, even more graphically, show the head of a deceased man, with half the image eaten away from decay.”
— This silver-and-ivory “charm bracelet” from the 1500s is not for sale, or a charm bracelet, but its charms are freaky! Paging Pinochle! [Via]