GOLD!

[hoover-G]

Well done Steve that's stunning

[JRD]

Wow! Cracker of a find. Nice one!

[Val Beechey]

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.

Val

 

[stever]

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  im definitely going to go back and check the rest of the field

[Bill from Lachine]

Steve,

That's a beauty of a gold find.

Regards + HH

Bill

[Dale]

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

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?

[troutmasterfunk]

Nice find very nice....   

[IFINDNOTHING]

Cracker, well rescued.

[diggaduff]

Cracking find Steve, well deserved   

[Val Beechey]

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

[Kent]

awesome great find

[stever]

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

[Chef Geoff]

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.

[stever]

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

[probono]

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.