Reliquary diptych locket depicting head of Christ and the Virgin Mary.
Where today parents save first curls as a souvenir of babyhood, in the 19th century it became fashionable to work the hair of a dead beloved into a locket, bracelet or even a ring.
She wears a locket with pictures of strangers in it, never having replaced the stock photos.
Each locket contained a scrap of hair from one of their children.
PATRICIA GOLDSTEIN, a small, feisty New Yorker, was 15 years old when she bought her first piece of jewellery, a Victorian locket.
She placed his picture in a locket on a necklace and wore it at all times.
On his return to France he collected violets from her garden, which he wore in a locket until his death.
Had the locket been around her neck, the chain might have snapped, but it was in her pocket.
Clouds roil, and lightning bolts sizzle; there's a heavy dose of witchcraft lore, many spells, a glowing magic locket, and a blank ancient book that fills with runic script as you turn the pages.
About two decades later, at the time of Stanley's wedding in Westminster Abbey, Queen Victoria sent the bride a locket with thirty-eight diamonds.
For a few moments she said nothing, then she touched the locket.
