Locket Foto Round 47 mm with High Polished Finish Massive Pendant 925 Sterling collection Silver 17 g BELDIAMO

Product Information

Product Type Pendants
Material 100% 925 Sterling Silver
Marked Stamped 925
Pendant height 47 mm / 1.85 in
Pendant width 35 mm / 1.35 in
Inner Bail diameter 9 mm x 4 mm /0.35 in x 0.16 in
Pendant Diameter 35 mm / 1.38 in
Weight Approximately 17 grams
Additional Finish Hand Polishing
Density Solid
Item Conditions New
Brand Beldiamo

Locket
A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item such as a lock of hair. Lockets are usually given to loved ones on holidays such as Valentine's Day and occasions such as christenings, weddings and, collection most noticeably during the Victorian Age, funerals. Historically, they often opened to reveal a portrait miniature.

Lockets are generally worn on chains around the neck and often hold a photo of the person who gave the locket, or they could form part of a charm bracelet. They come in many shapes such as ovals, hearts and circles and are usually made of precious metals such as gold or silver befitting their status as decorative jewellery.

Lockets usually hold only one or two photographs, but some specially made lockets can hold up to eight. Some lockets have been fashioned as 'spinner' lockets, where the bail that attaches to the necklace chain is attached but not fixed to the locket itself which is free to spin. This was a common style in the Victorian Age. Around 1860 memento lockets started to replace mourning rings as the preferred style of mourning jewellery.