History of Lockets and the Heart 

Lockets have been around for centuries. Originally in the Victorian Era, lockets were given as condolences to those who had lost a loved one. As time elapsed, the use and idea of the locket expanded. Lockets have been made out of every known metal, shape, and size. Unlike lockets of the Victorian Era, our modern day lockets can be engraved to personalize the locket beyond the simple act of inserting a photo and come in a wide variety of metal types such as 18k and 14k gold, gold filled, sterling silver and white gold.

The most popular locket throughout the centuries is the heart locket.  This is for multiple reasons. First, a heart locket is used to represent someone else’s heart resting on yours. There are, however, many more reasons as to why we believe the heart shape of the locket is so important. The actual shape of a heart or heart symbol, in Christian iconography, was a stand in for the soul of Jesus. The Centurion who pierced Jesus' heart at the crucifixion with a lance (John 19:34) was the first allusion to the sacred heart of Jesus in scriptures. However, the actual shape itself is known to have come from the seed of silphium, an African plant that was harvested to the point of extinction and then on placed on their currency. In Rome the plant was thought to have been given to them by Apollo, a god of romantic arts. There you have your connection and the base for our heart lockets today. Although the heart had taken shape, if you will, centuries before, the idea of using heart shaped lockets wasn’t truly popular until the romantic Victorian era, used mostly as a heart represented as a locket withholding feelings inside of it. We hope that you will enjoy looking through each of our beautiful lockets, and find one that you feel is worthy of putting your feelings into.