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Key-and-heart locket

See our: heart lockets.

A type of locket given as a love token, made in the form of a heart to which is attached by a thin chain a replica of a key to unlock the heart. Some such lockets enclosed a lock of hair or a portrait.

From: An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry, autor: Harold Newman, publishers: Thames and Hudson