What Was Sent To The Soldier's Wife

I named this necklace for one of my favorite songs, a smoky beer hall number written by Kurt Weil and for Lotte Lenya (and sung by Marianne Faithful and PJ Harvey!), The Ballad of The Soldier's Wife.

The song covers motifs of material acquisition, empire, death and loss. The necklace-- well, it does not address such profound themes so deftly, but it does combine a locket (traditionally used to remember or commemorate one who is gone for a time or passed away) with more ornamental adornments: a beautiful cast glass cabochon bezel-set with a pretty lace edge. That and the lush but ragged, old-world styling of the beautifully aged copper and brass, together, in my little mind, link the necklace with some hazy dream world of song.