Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket modernist these rings are becoming harder

these rings are becoming harder and harder to find

which themselves are also hinged to fold out

Ruby and Diamond

it's crafted in 18 karat gold and dates from the 1880s

In Victorian symbolic tradition

Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket modernist these rings are becoming harderDATE: Vintage, c. 1994 This remarkable vintage locket is made from a silver ingot recovered from the wreck of the Nuestra Sonora de Atocha, a Spanish galleon that sunk off the Florida Keys in 1622 laden with over 40 tons of gold and silver, and an estimated 70 pounds of Colombian emeralds. The wreck was discovered over 300 years later, in 1985, by Mel Fisher, who had been searching for it since the early '70s. It was a long and dangerous process,