Antique Victorian Portate top Cross Rose Gold Filled Paste Pendant Locket

Excellent condition. Fresh looking, soft wear is noticeable only on close inspection.

● Gold setting has a bright patina with minor surface wear, no dents.
● Glass has fresh sheen with no chips and light surface wear.
● No original frames.
● Bale is secure and original.
● Shuts tightly with satisfying "snap".


Era Victorian
Diameter 1" (excluding bale)
Mark Yes, see photo
Weight 7.8 grams
Material Tests for gold filled, glass

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Unique Features
Made by hand or in small groups of similar styles, vintage jewelry is individualistic with its own special story.

● Cross lockets were popular during Victorian era yet this piece has design features that set it apart from similar pieces.
● Design was etched by hand with detail in order to render a wooden cross and a halo of paste stones behind it.
● Classic silhouette is solidly made with quality weight and feel in your hand. Locket has slim cache laying flush when worn.


Collector Note

On Symbolism In Jewelry. Symbolism in antique and vintage jewelry is common, yet it can be hard to spot if you don't know what you're looking for. Often, specific natural gemstones, flowers, birds, and motifs like stars and anchors were imbued with meanings that have fallen out of present-day society's collective memory. To appreciate the power of symbols in antique jewelry is to imagine what it would have been like to wear the piece and step back into history.


On Victorian. A young Queen Victoria assumed her role in 1837 and her taste in jewelry quickly became culturally influential, within England and beyond. Her relationship to jewelry was enmeshed with her husband, Prince Albert, who gifted the Queen for their engagement, a snake ring, embedded with an emerald (her birthstone) in its head. Continuing from the Georgian era and intensified by Queen Victoria's taste, sentimental and figural jewelry was a major trend throughout the Victorian era. When certain ideas and words were deemed too forward or improper to be spoken, jewelry and symbolic meaning was used to communicate what was left unsaid.