| For the history and jewelry lovers, locket is the | | | | cotton ball which was soaked in the perfume. |
| best option. Such attractive cases generally hang | | | | Since lockets have some hidden story contained |
| from charm bracelets, pins or necklaces are used | | | | in them so they are quite interesting. When you |
| as a personal expression for the people who | | | | open the pivot for the first time of any old |
| wear them and also they act as celebrations of | | | | locket, you will discover a mystery. Locket may |
| longing. They vary in sizes and shapes. The most | | | | contain a photograph of the first love or it may |
| common and popular among all shapes is the | | | | contain a lock of hair of someone who died long |
| heart shape. You can get the locket contained | | | | ago. Beside its mystery, lockets are also a very |
| with anything from a tooth to a lock of hair to a | | | | unusual piece used in jewelry. Today, people buy |
| photograph. The very first time when these | | | | and wore the lockets for various reasons. Either |
| sterling silver lockets became popular was the | | | | lockets are gifted by someone on special days |
| Victorian era. | | | | like mother’s day or valentine day or they |
| The people generally wore the locket close to the | | | | are used to celebrate any special occasion like |
| heart. It was worn using either a long chain or it | | | | christening or wedding anniversary. |
| was clipped to the bodice with the help of a pin. | | | | Mother generally wore the sterling silver lockets |
| The lockets gain popularity when the England | | | | containing the picture of their children. There are |
| Queen Elizabeth I specially made two lockets in | | | | funerary lockets that contain the lock of hair of |
| the remembrance of the defeat of Armada of | | | | the person who has died. Lockets are available in |
| Spanish. During the time of civil war which took | | | | various styles. Some of them have a shape of |
| place in U.S., soldiers used to left their lock of hair | | | | book, a circle or a heart. The material which is |
| before going for the war at home and that was | | | | used to make them is pewter, silver or gold. |
| then positioned into the lockets of their darlings on | | | | Many lockets hold the precious stones like |
| their death. In 1890’s when personal | | | | birthstone and some may be programmed with |
| hygiene does not matter much as it does today, | | | | initials. |
| ladies used to wore a locket that contains a | | | | |