Lockets are quite old, dating back to the Victorian era, and at one time back in the day were used to carry poisons, powders, various charms and keepsakes, such as hair and ashes. Today silver, gold, gemstone and various other lockets are mostly used to carry pictures of loved ones. Throughout the years, lockets have been manufactured in numerous different metal forms, including, iron, copper, brass, aluminum, sterling silver, gold and platinum. Today, the styles of yesterday are known as antique and vintage lockets, and there are companies that still make lockets today using some very unique antique molds. If unique is of interest to you, then please check out our unique silver lockets and also the filigree lockets. The Victorian’s adored locket jewelry and it was at the turn of the 30th century when mechanical techniques improved that the locket was first manufactured for costume jewelry. Lots of the Victorian lockets were set with bright color gem stones, and seed pearls and sometimes even diamonds. The round lockets and heart shaped lockets found the most popularity as they do today, and engraved monograms with the owners initials over the locket was a common and favorite practice. Nowadays, having contemporary manufacturing capabilities lockets are created with a lot more precision and therefore, their quality is much better than their ancestors. Silver lockets seem to be the ones that one want the most, and they are more popular than gold. There are many types of silver lockets, with both modern designs, heart and round shapes and also filigree and antique styles as well of silver lockets.
Silver Lockets
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Heart Lockets
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Types of Locket Jewelry
Uses for Lockets
Holding Pictures
One of the most well-known type of lockets are the lockets that can hold small sized photographs of loved ones as memorable keepsakes to loved ones. If you're looking for a type of locket that can store more that one photograph, there are other picture lockets available for your choosing that will allow you to store from two to six photographs at once. This type of locket comes in many shapes in heart and oval forms to hold your pictures in a stylish and very respectable way. Sterling silver photo lockets are the most popular for these. Also, heart lockets are used to hold pictures and are quite popular with ladies of all ages.
Keepsake Lockets
If you have been looking for a stylish way to hold onto a lock of hair or anything that is small and or hold some sense of nostalgia or memorabilia into a piece of jewelry, then a keepsake locket might be the perfect accessory for you. This difference with a picture locket and a keepsake locket is that when it comes to the picture locket you can easily open up the pendant and place a photo inside whereas with a keepsake locket, there is a glass pane that you'll need to open to place your items inside, these can be purchased in sterling silver lockets, gold lockets .
If you're looking for something that may be in an antique form of a pendant then there are also a wide variety of Antique Lockets. Antique Lockets usually come as a ball that is attached to an antique chain which is able to spin around the neck with ease. Even though this type of locket doesn't operate like a picture locket, antique lockets are antique pendants from the Victorian age which have led the to be extremely sought after in terms of investment value due to their expensive value.
Hold Perfume - Gemstone Lockets
What if your a fan of gemstone jewelry stylings? The last locket that is also very popular and wonderful in taste is the jewelry locket. This type of locket will not only allow you to add a few droplets of perfume into a small pouch that's embedded into the locket itself. The main purpose of the jewelry locket was meant to keep you smelling good to prevent any bad odors from arising. Locket jewelry pendants are meant to be treasured and very well taken care of since they are beautiful and unique pieces of art!
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