SOLD Vintage Rolled Gold Locket And Pearl NecklaceLovely vintage rolled gold etched stripe locket on a biwa freshwater pearl necklace. Container jewellery to house tokens and special items have been around since Egyptian times and the first lockets held medicinal herbs, religious relics, prayers or perfumes. Elizabeth 1 is thought to have owned one of the first sentimental lockets which was a ring depicting tiny portraits of both herself and her mother Anne Boleyn. Before the invention of photography