Victorian Memorial Hair Locket Earrings
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Memorial Hair Locket Earrings in 10k gold. Plaited hair is basket woven and set under glass.
Antique 1880s American Victorian Drop Earrings
10k Gold
Victorian Memorial Hair Locket Earrings
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Memorial Hair Locket Earrings in 10k gold. Plaited hair is basket woven and set under glass.
10k Gold
Antique Victorian Enamel Pearl Diamond Gold Hair Locket Heart Pendant
Located in New York, NY
Wonderful representative of antique Victorian era Mourning jewelry, this delicate 14k gold heart pendant is set with bright turquoise blue enamel, pearls and an old mine cut diamond...
Diamond, Pearl, Gold, Enamel
Antique Yellow Gold Pearl and Crystal Halo Hair Locket Ring
Located in Chipping Campden, GB
Antique Yellow Gold Pearl and Crystal Halo Hair Locket Ring delightful pearl halo ring with beautiful spilt shoulders The item comes without the box in the photos but will be prese...
Crystal, Pearl, Yellow Gold
Victorian gold Hair locket pendant - Black Jet
Located in Wallkill, NY
Black jet Victorian 14k Gold locket with Gold detailing. Seed Pearl accents. Finely detailed Cameo. Measuring 2.00 in x 1.40 in. This is out of a massive collection of Hopi, Zuni, Na...
Gold, 14k Gold
Georgian 1800s Hair Locket Black Enamel Mourning Ring
Located in London, GB
The ring has been set with a central rectangular window that features a small locket of hair with a border of black and white enamel and the band splits into four.
Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Victorian Gold & Enamel Mourning Hair Locket Brooch Seed Pearls
Located in Wallkill, NY
Wonderful VICTORIAN 14K GOLD Mourning Pin Locket. This has a glass back that would have housed a lock of hair or a picture of your loved one that had passed on.
Onyx, Cultured Pearl, Pearl, Gold, 14k Gold, Enamel
Antique Victorian Scottish Granite Bracelet Sterling Silver Padlock Hair Locket
Located in Munich, Bavaria
The reverse of the padlock is fitted with the original oval convex glass that covers a small compartment which contains a braided lock of hair. The padlock clasp makes this bracelet...
Sterling Silver
Antique 9ct Yellow Gold Mourning Ring with Hair Locket, Circa 1850
Located in Firenze, IT
9ct yellow gold antique Mourning ring featuring a crystal locket displaying artfully plaited hair & finished with ornate engraved shoulders, circa 1850.
Diamond, Gold, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Victorian Enamel and 18 Carat Gold Locket
Located in Chipping Campden, GB
The inside of the locket holds a picture of a smart lady and a lock of her hair.
Enamel, Gold
Antique Victorian Hair Pendant 18 Karat Gold Chased Pattern Vintage Fine Oval
Located in Torrance, CA
The reverse side features an intricate decorative foliate pattern with a contrasting square pattern. The hair locket was popular during the Victorian era when a memento was placed in...
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Victorian Revivalist Owl Necklace
Located in Riverdale, NY
Charming owl motif which signified knowledge and wisdom, rendered as a beautifully detailed gold bird on branch within a blue enameled cup, bordered with white enamel and etruscan go...
14k Gold, 9k Gold
Victorian Revivalist Owl Pendant
Located in New York, NY
Charming owl motif which signified knowledge and wisdom, rendered as a beautifully detailed gold bird on branch within a blue enameled cup, bordered with white enamel and etruscan go...
14k Gold, 9k Gold
Antique Victorian 15K Gold Blue Enamel & Pearl Pendant Locket Necklace - c.1880
Located in London, GB
The pendant presents a very elegant combination of deep-blue enamelling and half pearl lines with the opposing side being a hair locket. Underneath the pendant, an Etruscan-style dro...
Pearl, Gold, 15k Gold, Enamel
10K Gold Engine-Turned Mourning Locket with Braided Hair
Located in Venice, CA
GWCL West is the name engraved on the top and behind original bevelled glass is a generous brown haired woven braid. The hair has been kept impeccably behind the thick glass.
10k Gold, Yellow Gold
Antique Victorian Mourning Locket with Woven Hair, 19th Century
Located in Rotterdam, NL
The locket opens to reveal a woven section of preserved hair, a common practice in Victorian mourning jewelry, symbolizing remembrance and devotion to a deceased loved one.
14k Gold
Antique Victorian 14K Gold, Enamel, & Hair Art Mourning Locket Pendant
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine antique Victorian mourning pendant for a necklace. In 14 karat yellow gold. In the form of a converted pocket watch pendant. With strands of hair behind a bezel-set glass ...
14k Gold, Enamel
Antique Georgian 15 Karat Gold Locket Pendant Flowers Hair Gold Wire
Located in Munich, Bavaria
This finely chiselled and engraved Georgian 15 karat gold locket pendant holds a beautiful hair arrangement under glass in the shape of feathers.
15k Gold
Antique Yellow Gold Engraved Round Mourning Locket Pendant w/ Hair Inside
Located in Montclair, NJ
Material: Solid 14k Yellow Gold w/ Gold Wash - Clear Cover & Hair Inside Total Weight: 5.35 Grams Overall Height: 30.3mm (1.1") (w/ bail) Overall Diameter: 22.3mm (0.87") Overall...
Gold, Yellow Gold
Antique 10K Gold Victorian Swivel Mourning Cameo Brooch Locket Tooth & Hair 1860
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique 10k yellow gold carved shell swivel cameo mourning brooch/locket, with hair & a tooth under crystal to the rear, circa 1860.
Gold
Victorian 18 Karat Gold Woven Hair Pearl Locket Multi-Strand Chain Bracelet
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
The central detail is made of woven hair. The locket is surrounded by seed pearls. Has a safe closure and a safety chain.
Pearl, Gold, 18k Gold
Antique Victorian Etruscan 15k Solid Gold Hair Picture Locket Brooch Pin Pendant
Located in Montclair, NJ
Here we have an amazing antique hair/picture locket from Victorian England. The piece is solid 15k yellow gold and has its original patina in tact.
Natural Pearl, Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Victorian Black Onyx Pearl Locket Necklace Flower Motif 14K Braided Hair Antique
Located in New York, NY
This is a magnificent Victorian - Belle Epoque Picture locket pendant necklace in Black Onyx, and 14 Karat Gold with Pearl adornments in a Flower Motif design with an exquisite braid...
Onyx, Pearl, Gold, Yellow Gold, 14k Gold
$10,575
French Art Nouveau Locket
Located in Bethesda, MD
This large antique French 18K gold locket pendant is superbly modeled in the Art Nouveau style of the 1890s.The cover is finely chased in high relief with flowers accented stunning r...
Early Victorian Black Enamel Book Locket Mourning Ring
Located in London, GB
The ring has been set with a central rectangular window in a book motif that features a small locket of hair with beautiful engraved detailing.
Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Victorian 14 Karat Gold Hand Painted Miniature Portrait Locket Pendant
Located in Monroe Township, NJ
Locket back has a compartment with hinged glass cover to hold hair lock .
Gold
Antique Victorian 15K Gold Oval Black & White Enamel & Pearl Mourning Locket
Located in Staines-Upon-Thames, GB
The back of the locket contains a glass-covered compartment, containing hairwork of light brunette / blonde hair.
Pearl, 15k Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Antique Georgian 18K Yellow Gold Baroque Pearl and Ruby Cluster Locket Ring
Located in Staines-Upon-Thames, GB
Verso, the ring reveals a secret, a hidden locket compartment, covered with a circular piece of glass, behind which a panel of hair is concealed.
Pearl, Ruby, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold
ANTIQUE VICTORIAN 10k GOLD HAIR ART MOURNING BROOCH WITH SEED PEARLS
Located in New York, NY
While she famously grieved her husband Prince Albert's death for 40 years, Queen Victoria often wore a locket with his hair around her neck. This specific piece is made of solid 10k ...
Pearl, 10k Gold
Antique Victorian Mourning Cross Pendant in Gold, Silver, Pearls, Diamonds.
Located in Malmö, Skåne län
Families would preserve the hair of the deceased in lockets, brooches, or intricately woven jewelry, creating keepsakes that honored memory and loss.
Diamond, Pearl, Gold, 14k Gold, Silver
Georgian Flat Cut Garnet and Gold Mourning Brooch
Located in Chipping Campden, GB
This stunning brooch would also make a stunning pendant! The hair behind the locket front is surrounded by beautiful flat cut garnets, typical of the Georgian period.
Garnet, Gold
Georgian 1790s Mourning Ring
Located in London, GB
The piece has been set with a centralised round window that features a small locket of hair and a border of black and white enamel around the outer edge.
Gold, Rose Gold, Enamel
Victorian 14K Gold Enamel, Pearl and Diamond Star Bracelet circa 1880s
Located in Venice, CA
It became popular to carry a reminder of a loved one in the form of hair in a locket, or portrait close to the heart.
Diamond, Pearl, Gold, 14k Gold, Enamel
Victorian Holbeinesque Garnet and Chrysoberyl Pendant
Located in London, GB
A Victorian Holbeinesque garnet and chrysoberyl pendant, to the centre an oval cabochon garnet measuring 18 x 14mm, surrounded by polychrome champlevé enamel frame, encrusted with si...
Chrysoberyl, Garnet, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Gold, Enamel
$16,046 / item
Victorian Holbeinesque Garnet and Chrysoberyl Pendant
Located in London, GB
This pendant also features a locket to the back, a typical feature of Victorian jewellery: the locket would have contained a lock of hair belonging to a loved one.
Chrysoberyl, Garnet, 18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Gold, Enamel
Unavailable|$9,595
Georgian Diamond Enameled Urn Mourning Hair Locket Ring
Located in Narberth, PA
This exceptional memorial urn ring from the Georgian era (ca1779) is quite an unusual piece! Crafted in 18kt rose gold, the ring is richly detailed, and serves as a fine example of t...
Diamond, 18k Gold
Antique Georgian Mourning Hair Locket Bracelet in 18 Carat Gold, circa 1820
Located in Kendal, GB
A fascinating Antique Georgian Mourning bracelet from the early 19th Century featuring a large 18ct Gold double-sided locket with a magnificent display of curled hair and forget me n...
Yellow Gold, Gold
Victorian English Gold Multi Hair Locket and Names Mourning Bracelet, circa 1850
Located in Houston, TX
An antique English 9 c gold mourning bracelet, finely constructed from 8 individual glass lockets each holding a hair memento with tiny seed pearls and gift wire highlights, fastened...
9k Gold
Unavailable|$2,152
Antique 14 Carat Rose Gold and Sterling Silver Coral Pendant/Locket
Located in Splitter's Creek, NSW
This beautiful Antique (Victorian) Coral Plaque Pendant/Photo/Hair Locket is Oval Cut, Colour Light Pink/White with a raised floral style Centrepiece hosting one raised Hematite Bead.
Coral, Hematite, Natural Pearl, Rose Gold, Sterling Silver
Unavailable|$10,500
A Multi-Gem Maltese Cross Pendant
Located in New York, NY
A Multi-Gem Maltese Cross Pendant, English School, Portrait of an Eye, centering a square miniature depicting the right eye of a gentleman, with brown iris, in carved onyx and chalce...
Chalcedony, Onyx, Gold
Unavailable|$1,295
Exquisite Georgian Gold Mourning Pendant, Locket, Fine Hair Art
Located in San Marcos, CA
Well treasured for more than 2 centuries, this stunning Georgian mourning locket, pendant, has an intricately worked hair art devotional in the form of sheaves of harvested wheat, sy...
14k Gold
Unavailable|$1,000
Antique Victorian Gold Anchor Locket
Located in Sale, Cheshire
It's crafted in high carat yellow gold, and opens to reveal a colourised photograph and locket of hair. MEASUREMENTS 2.8 x 2.1cm WEIGHT 6.7g MARKS No marks present, tests as 15...
15k Gold
Unavailable|$5,270
Victorian 9k Garnet Mariner Link Padlock Locket Bracelet
Located in Narberth, PA
The garnet displays a deep red hue, and the remaining front surface of the padlock locket features swirling-motif engravings. The backside of the locket features similar engravings, ...
Garnet, Gold, 9k Gold
Unavailable|$5,270
Victorian 9k Garnet Mariner Link Padlock Locket Bracelet
Located in Narberth, PA
The garnet displays a deep red hue, and the remaining front surface of the padlock locket features swirling-motif engravings. The backside of the locket features similar engravings, ...
Garnet, Gold, 9k Gold
Unavailable|$2,000
Antique Georgian Pearl Hair Memorial Ring
Located in Sale, Cheshire
It features a finely woven locket of hair behind an oval glass compartment, within a border of natural pearls in crimped settings.
Pearl, 15k Gold
Unavailable|$3,300
Victorian 14k Enamel & Woven Hair Mourning Ring
Located in Narberth, PA
Besides normal surface wear, there is no apparent damage to the gold setting. The hair within the locket is secure and intact, and the glass panel art the front of the centerpiece is...
Gold, 14k Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Unavailable|$1,091
Antique Victorian Gold-Plated Locket Chain Necklace, circa 1900
Located in Lancaster, Lancashire
The inside of the Locket is complete with a rim and window in which a photograph or lock of hair can be inserted.
Gold Plate
Antique Victorian Pearl Diamond Locket Ring 9 Carat Gold Dated 1848
Located in Lancaster, Lancashire
The ring features lovely old engraved shoulders and also comes with a locket back. The locket back consist of a glass window in which a momento of a loved one can be kept, such as a ...
Diamond, Pearl, 9k Gold
Unavailable|$560
Georgian Enamel and Gold Mourning Brooch
Located in New York, NY
The 15k gold cased mount is beautifully adorned with black enamel. The center locket, containing woven hair, is decorated with highly raised, gold leafy scrolls around its frame.
15k Gold
Unavailable|$1,637
Victorian Black Enamel Pearl Diamond Memorial Ring
Located in Oxford, GB
The ring is inscribed with 'In memory' on the back of the band and inside inscribed, "My Dearest Husband 1901". and has a locket with enclosed hair with glass covering. The ring is a...
Diamond, 18k Gold
Unavailable|$2,742
Antique Georgian Boxed Gold Mourning Spinning Ring
Located in Lancaster, Lancashire
The face of this stunning ring actually spins 360 degrees to reveal a hidden locket of plaited hair. Mourning jewellery mirrored the lives and times of the people who wore it.
18k Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Antique Victorian 14 Karat Yellow Gold Mourning Hair Locket
Located in Washington Depot, CT
Antique Victorian 14 Karat Yellow Gold Mourning Hair Locket- This exceptional Victorian mourning locket includes lock of hair visible through its glass front.
Gold
Early Victorian Hair Locket Black Enamel Mourning Ring
Located in London, GB
The ring has been set with a central rectangular window that features a small locket of hair with a border of black and white enamel.
Gold, Yellow Gold, Enamel
Victorian Ruby, Diamond, Enamel And Pearl Hair Locket
Located in South Pasadena, CA
Crafted in 18 karat gold, the robin's egg blue enamel ground highlighted by four cushion-shaped rubies weighing approximately 1 carat, between a scrolling motif set with rose-cut dia...
Victorian Diamond Garnet Yellow Gold Hair-Locket Pendant
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
A lovely antique diamond and garnet pendant set in a handmade 15k yellow gold setting. The center diamond weighs 1/4 carat and is a old-mine-cut, encircled by five rose-cut diamonds....
Diamond, Garnet, 15k Gold, Yellow Gold
Lover’s Eye Pin with Hair Locket Back, circa 1825
Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Made of 12 karat rose gold and fitted with an original locket back, the original braided strand of hair is still immaculately intact under glass. 1.25 x 1 inch.
Amethyst, Rose Gold
Sold|$955
Georgian Locket Miniature
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century hand painted miniature portrait of a gentleman, in Georgian attire, mounted in an ornate gold clasp frame, with a hair locket at the back. Circa 1822
Gold
Georgian Memorial Hair and Locket Brooch/Pendant in 15ct Gold, Circa 1830
Located in ADELAIDE, SA
Georgian Memorial hair locket which can be worn as a pendant or brooch.
Natural Pearl, Gold
Gold is the feel-good metal, the serotonin of jewelry. Wear vintage and antique gold necklaces, watches, gold bracelets or gold rings and you feel happy, you feel dressed, you feel, well, yourself.
Gold, especially yellow gold, with its rich patina and ancient pedigree going back thousands of years, is the steady standby, the well-mannered metal of choice. Any discussion of this lustrous metal comes down to a basic truth: Gold is elementary, my dear. Gold jewelry that couples the mystique of the metal with superb design and craftsmanship achieves the status of an enduring classic. Many luxury houses have given us some of our most treasured and lasting examples of gold jewelry over the years.
Since its founding, in 1837, Tiffany & Co. has built its reputation on its company jewelry as well as its coterie of boutique designers, which has included Jean Schlumberger, Donald Claflin, Angela Cummings and Elsa Peretti. There are numerous gold Tiffany classics worth citing. Some are accented with gemstones, but all stand out for their design and the workmanship displayed.
For the woman who prefers a minimalist look, the Tiffany & Co. twist bangle (thin, slightly ovoid) is stylishly simple. For Cummings devotees, signature pieces feature hard stone inlay, such as her pairs of gold ear clips inlaid with black jade (a play on the classic Chanel black and tan), or bangles whose design recalls ocean waves, with undulating lines of lapis lazuli and mother-of-pearl. And just about any design by the great Jean Schlumberger is by definition a classic.
Even had he eschewed stones and diamonds, Southern-born David Webb would be hailed for the vast arsenal of heavy gold jewelry he designed. Gold, usually hammered or textured in some manner, defines great David Webb jewelry. The self-taught jeweler made very au courant pieces while drawing inspiration from ancient and out-of-the-way sources — East meets West in the commanding gold necklaces made by Webb in the early 1970s. The same could be said for his endlessly varied gold cuffs.
In Europe, many houses have given us gold jewelry that sets the highest standard for excellence, pieces that were highly sought after when they were made and continue to be so.
Numerous designs from Cartier are homages to gold. There are the classic Trinity rings, necklaces and bracelets — trifectas of yellow, white and rose gold. As a testament to the power of love, consider the endurance of the Cartier Love bracelet.
Aldo Cipullo, Cartier’s top in-house designer from the late 1960s into the early ’70s, made history in 1969 with the Love bracelet. Cipullo frequently said that the Love bracelet was born of a sleepless night contemplating a love affair gone wrong and his realization that “the only remnants he possessed of the romance were memories.” He distilled the urge to keep a loved one close into a slim 18-karat gold bangle.
BVLGARI and its coin jewelry, gemme nummarie, hit the jackpot when the line launched in the 1960s. The line has been perennially popular. BVLGARI coin jewelry features ancient Greek and Roman coins embedded in striking gold mounts, usually hung on thick link necklaces of varying lengths. In the 1970s, BVLGARI introduced the Tubogas line, most often made in yellow gold. The Tubogas watches are classics, and then there is the Serpenti, the house's outstanding snake-themed watches and bracelets.
A collection called Monete that incorporated the gold coins is one of several iconic BVLGARI lines that debuted in the 1970s and ’80s, catering to a new generation of empowered women. Just as designers like Halston and Yves Saint Laurent were popularizing fuss-free ready-to-wear fashion for women on the go, BVLGARI offered jewels to be lived in.
Since Van Cleef & Arpels opened its Place Vendôme doors in 1906, collection after collection of jewelry classics have enchanted the public. As predominantly expressed in a honeycomb of gold, there is the Ludo watch and accessories, circa the 1920s, and the golden Zip necklace, 1951, whose ingenious transformation of the traditional zipper was originally proposed by the Duchess of Windsor. Van Cleef's Alhambra, with its Moroccan motif, was introduced in 1968 and from the start its popularity pivoted on royalty and celebrity status. It remains one of VCA’s most popular and collected styles.
Mention must be made of Buccellati, whose name is synonymous with gold so finely spun that it suggests tapestry. The house’s many gold bracelets, typically embellished with a few or many diamonds, signified taste and distinction and are always in favor on the secondary market. Other important mid-20th-century houses known for their gold-themed jewelry include Hermès and Ilias Lalaounis.
Find a stunning collection of vintage and antique gold jewelry on 1stDibs.