Locket

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A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small items such as a lock of hair. Lockets are usually given as gifts during holidays and special occasions like Valentine's Day, christenings, weddings and --especially 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, prisms and circles and are usually made of precious metals such as gold or silver befitting their status as decorative jewelry. Lockets usually hold only one or two photographs, but some specially made lockets can hold up to eight. Common in the Victorian Era, 'spinner' lockets have a bail that attaches to the necklace chain is attached but not fixed to the locket itself which is free to spin. Around 1860, memento lockets started to...

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