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Title: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: jaydogg on March 30, 2011, 04:33:23 PM I found this recently. Not exactly a metal find; It’s a tortoise shell locket, probably Victorian. Rather touchingly, it still had a strand of hair inside the glass compartment.
It’s interesting to note that if the glass was not mounted in a copper surround, this would never have been found due to the locket being constructed of an organic material. I’m rather pleased with it. :) Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: jaydogg on March 30, 2011, 04:34:22 PM Other
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: Chef Geoff on March 30, 2011, 04:42:54 PM Lovely find jaydogg and probably has a sad tail attached as I think it is a mourning locket and the motif could possibly mean the loved one was lost at sea.
Oh and by the way very collectable (hope you kept the hair) ;D Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: tyna on March 30, 2011, 04:52:56 PM Whoever lost it must have been devastated :'(
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: nomad on March 30, 2011, 05:26:22 PM thats a super find...
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: Kev on March 30, 2011, 05:28:33 PM a great find jaydogg wont find to many of them. ;)
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: Metalmickey on March 30, 2011, 05:52:56 PM Nice find that ;) I`d of been well pleased to have unearthed it, well done indeedeeee ! :P
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: jaydogg on March 30, 2011, 06:23:26 PM Thanks all, quite an unusual find I thought. Unfortunatelly Chef the strand of hair kinda got lost.
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: geordiefred on March 30, 2011, 08:47:43 PM Cracking find, well done ;)
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: Pipster on March 30, 2011, 08:53:51 PM Would love to have found that well done ;)
Title: Re: Tortoise Shell Locket Post by: rjm on March 30, 2011, 09:44:08 PM I found one like yours, but not as nice, last year. Nothing inside mine. I think they're known as Mourning lockets. Well done. ;D |