The piece of jewellery, which is typical like no other for the 19th century, is the locket. It was made out of all known materials and followed in its design every fashionable trend. Delicate golden lockets from the early years of the century were mostly adorned with coloured stonesVoluminous lockets arose from this in the middle of the century, which could be protectively picked-taken up by the thick glass plates of the Daguerreotypes. In Victorian times this personal remembrance jewels were again somewhat smaller.Click to fold