9ct Oval Locket with Knight Templar

The special and timeless Victorian Yellow Gold Med 9ct Oval Locket with Knight Templar Engraved One Side is a stunning Antique piece that is new in store and online.

Lockets have accrued both utilitarian and aesthetic value over the centuries. Whether carrying a droplet of perfume, locks of hair or even poison, you will be surprised to know that for much of locket’s history, they weren’t always jewels of amorous devotion

Queen Victoria was known to always wear a locket of Prince Albert around her neck, especially after he passed away. And, the Queen was gifted a locket charm bracelet, with eight lockets all with individual portraits of her children.

Like most jewels of the time, antique Victorian lockets followed the fashions of the royal family, firmly cementing the locket as a must-have item in the 19th century and beyond.Wealthy families would commission antique four picture lockets, also known as family lockets, which would neatly open up to reveal multiple frames.

These lockets could take the form of books or orbs, with the more expensive kinds bedecked in engravings.