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2. Locket - Wikipedia

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   Some lockets have been fashioned as 'spinner' lockets, where the bail that attaches to the necklace chain is attached but not fixed to the locket itself which is free to spin. This was a common style in the Victorian Age. Around 1860 memento lockets started to replace mourning rings as the preferred style of mourning jewellery. [1]

3. Victorian jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Materials: Gold was used to create a ‘soft’ look, colourless stones, silver, jet, ivory and pearls. [4] Common jewellery worn: Earrings, brooches, bracelets, necklaces for outings during the night and lockets as casual daywear. [4]

4. Jewellery - Wikipedia

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   Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the clothes.

5. Bulla (amulet) - Wikipedia

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   Necklace with lenticular bulla, Ostia, Augustan age, gold. Roman bullae were enigmatic objects of lead, sometimes covered in gold foil, if the family could afford it. A bulla was worn around the neck as a locket to protect against evil spirits and forces. Bullae were made of differing substances depending upon the wealth of the family.

6. Granulation (jewellery) - Wikipedia

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   There are three basic techniques that may be used to attach granules to a metal surface: hard soldering, fusing and colloidal soldering. The metals used in granulation are usually gold and/or silver alloys of high purity – alloys below 18 kt. gold and sterling silver being unsuitable. With each technique, the process begins with the making of ...

7. Necklace - Wikipedia

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   In Ancient Babylon, necklaces were made of carnelian, lapis lazuli, agate, and gold, which was also made into gold chains. [6] Ancient Sumerians created necklaces and beads from gold, silver, lapis lazuli and carnelian. [6] In Ancient Egypt, a number of different necklace types were worn.