Found this locket while renovating my 1920s house

Bayard1908

I was painting the living room the other day and found this locket wedged between the floor and the wall. It was previously concealed by the baseboard.

The locket looks old to me. My house is from the 1920s; but, I'm sure this particular floor has been redone at least twice in recent decades.

The inside of the locket is marked 14KT with a horizontal line below the K and an additional K under this horizontal line. Instead of a horizontal line, I suppose the extra markings could be a stylized TK. All the markings appear to be done by hand, not stamped.

I'm curious how old this thing is and whether it is actually gold. It gives a low tone on the Etrac like gold and looks good to me, except for the hinge pin having some verdigris on it.

ricko

Neat find.... get a gold test kit or go to a jeweler - they will test it. Cheers, RickO

lordmarcovan

Looks like gold to me. And like you said, it looks old. Possibly as old as the house. Pre WW2, I would think.

Great find!

Would've been neat if there had been someone's photo in there.

pcgs69

congrats on the nice find! Never found gold out of the blue like that. It looks pretty good to me. Must be just a copper pin because a gold one may have been too soft.

luckybucks

Neat !!

johnny9434

keep an open eye, who knows what else in there

pocketpiececommems

It's great to find gold and not have to dig for it Nice eyeball find.

Timbuk3

Very nice !!! :-)

asheland