How can you tell if a locket is real gold?

Look for a standard mark such as 9KT, 15KT, 18KT, 375 or 750 on the bail, rim or inside. A "B&F" or "back and front" mark means gold layers over a base metal core. Unmarked antique lockets can be tested by a jeweller with an XRF reading.

What do you put in a gold locket?

Traditionally a photograph or portrait miniature, a lock of hair, or a small written note. Victorian lockets often have a glazed compartment designed for hair. Photographs can be trimmed to fit and held in place under the existing glass or bezel.

Are gold lockets fashionable?

Lockets have been worn for centuries and remain popular, both as everyday pendants and as sentimental gifts. Antique lockets, with their engraving, enamel and compartments, suit a single pendant or layering with other chains.

What is a Victorian mourning locket?

A locket made to remember someone who had died, usually in black enamel, jet, onyx or gold, with a lock of their hair behind glass and often their name and date of death engraved inside or on the back.

Antique Gold Lockets

Gold locket necklaces, antique and vintage: Victorian and Edwardian oval and round lockets in 9KT, 15KT and 18KT gold, gold heart lockets engraved with monograms or set with diamonds and pearls, and silver lockets of the late nineteenth century, each with glazed compartments for a photograph or a lock of hair. The antique locket is the most personal jewel of all, made to be opened only by its wearer. See our Victorian lockets or antique gold necklaces.

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