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HI Folks finally got a nice bit of gold  ;D  ;D ....well chuffed with myself 18k watch chain with engraved locket managed to open it and the picture has long since faded but the other side has hair in it.

well done steve fantastic find  :)

That is a wopper! congratz :D

Oh that is very very nice mate! Well found!

That's a beauty, well done. Whoever lost that must have been sick when he realised it was gone.

absolute bobby dazzler , nice find stever

Really nice find and so romantic to boot.  Well found Stever

rookypair

Here's a few more photos to add to Steve's........he said its 18ct but forgot to say its 38g!!!! (muddy weight but ha ho)..........well done mate this will take some beating ;)

Lovely find Steve a real whopper and possibly a little sad too as it has a date and hair so my guess would be it's a memento mori locket ;)

well done Steve  :D

£680 not a bad days work :) can you find out who,what,where ?? whos it was,what its from,where its from?

Lovely find  and what a find toooooooooooooooo

Oh boy thats a cracker, well done Steve

Very nice

Fantastic piece of bling stever, it will take some beating on D/W I reckon ;) well done mate.

Well done Steve that's stunning ;)

Wow! Cracker of a find. Nice one!

Wow Steve, well found. Wonder if there's a bit more of the chain still kicking around.

I agree with Geoff. Looks like the locket might contain some of the hair of the poor Gent who owned the Watch and chain and possible he died Nov 22nd 1889.

By the way, you can't count the weight of the watch winder  ;) ::)  Makes a nice change from pennies. ;D

Val

 

thanks guys couldn't believe it when I found it went straight round to dales to make sure it was gold as I couldn't find the hallmark probably because I was just to excited  ;D im definitely going to go back and check the rest of the field

Steve,

That's a beauty of a gold find.

Regards + HH

Bill

I did a little research on memento mori lockets and your id Geoff seems spot on with the photo and lock of hair ;)

iv added 1 more photo it looks like Dob with a little R above? other lockets iv looked at also have a little letter above?

Nice find very nice....   ;)

Cracker, well rescued.

Cracking find Steve, well deserved   ;D

Steve I think you'll find that it was a way of shortening the word NOVEMBER for convenience by writing NOV.r

So as suggested  Nov. 22nd 1889    The clue to names might be on the front of the locket.  Hubby inherited a silver watch and chain of his G.Grand Fathers with the same Gothic  writing and we could never work it out. Like yours there were 3 over written letters.
Have a look at these letters and see if you can make any sense of it.

Val

awesome great find

a close up of the locket you can make out the hair i have tried to get the picture out but cant seem to find how the glass comes out i have cleaned the watch winder and found the watch came from a bath jewellers but cant make out the name

I would leave it all as found Steve as part of the value is in the history and use, the watch key is from E J Vokes of Bath. The locket may be a love token rather than a mourning piece as here;

On the 23rd February 1933, an exhibition entitled 'The British Theatrical Loan Exhibition' was held at Dudley House, Park Lane. One of the exhibits was a bill issued by the Bath jeweller and goldsmith, William Evill, the bill, dated 1771, was made out to the playwright and poet Richard Sheridan, it stated:

R B Sheridan

June 10. To 1 Neat Hair Locket.
.......... To 1 Fancy Ring.
.......... To Setting a Picture in a Case.

The hair and the picture were believed to be of the actress Elizabeth Linley to whom he was to marry two years later.

will do chef thanks for the info I love history and would of only felt guilty if I managed to get the photo out.

Excellent find.

All you have to do now is look through marriages and deaths for your local area for 22nd November and see what comes up.

does it say southgate st ??

Fantastic find, Great pics

that's lovely mate  ;)

well done ,what a lovely find !!!

Steve if you want to find out what the initials are in the monogram try sending The Calligraphy & Lettering Arts Society an email with a photograph and asking who they know may be able to help, as far as I can find out that design is one by Nicolas Verien who's designs date back to the 17th-18thC and were used as the industry standard right up to the present day.
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cheers chef ill look into that  :)

Wow, what a fantastic find. You must be so chuffed. It always amaze me how well gold and silver keeps.

i still am very pleased with myself  ;D i doubt i will ever beat that find

A very good find indeed. Well done

That is a fantastic bit of gold. It would be really good if you did manage to come up trumps with any research. Well done.

Cracking find m8, well done fella ;)