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Antique Locket for two Photos Made of Gold With Pearls, Around 1900

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Antique Locket for two Photos Made of Gold With Pearls, Around 1900

Description

This description was automatically translated from German. If you have any questions about this piece of jewellery, we will be happy to help!

A picture, a lock of hair, perhaps even a little letter: we often have very personal and intimate items that remind us of a loved one. Carrying such objects with you at all times has a special charm. In a locket, the memories are hidden from the eyes of others, and yet they are always there, very close to the heart. This beautiful locket dates from around 1900 and is designed as an oval pendant with black enamel on the front. Small pearls adorn two flowers: the leaves refer to ivy, an evergreen plant that symbolized eternal fidelity. The reverse is also ornamented, with a frame and rocailles. Inside the locket, two small frames allow two photographs to be stored. The design of the locket is reminiscent of Biedermeier jewellery, and indeed Biedermeier forms had come back into fashion for sentimental jewellery such as lockets at the end of the 19th century. However, the flat design, intended for photographs, clearly shows that the locket was created in this later era, at the end of the 19th or even the beginning of the 20th century. The piece cannot be dated much more precisely, as similar pendants were still being produced up until the First World War. The richly illustrated catalog of the H. M. Hauer Co. from Pittsburgh, USA, Everything in Jewelry and Photo Jewelry shows that comparable pieces were still being produced in 1918. We discovered the beautiful locket here in Berlin. It contains two old photographs of a couple, probably from the 1930s. Of course, the pictures can easily be replaced. We have added a new chain to the locket.

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The culture of remembrance flourished in the late 19th century. Lockets were available in almost endless shapes and materials, to be worn on the neck, as a brooch or on a bracelet: "She wore dozens of bracelets that rang when she moved... Attached to these were many small lockets in which she kept the hair of living and deceased relatives." This is how one of Queen Victoria's ladies-in-waiting described her colleague Harriet Phillips, who served the Queen from 1862 to 1888.

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Flourishing Memories

€ 890.00 ^*

Content 1 piece

Incl. VAT, Shipping

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You can rely on our years of experience in the trade and our expertise as a professional art historians for reviews of the antique jewellery. As a member of various trade organisations and the British Society of Jewellery Historians, we remain committed to the highest possible degree of accuracy. In our descriptions, we always also indicate any signs of age and defects and never hide them in our photos – this saves you from any unpleasant surprises when your package arrives.

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