Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket modernist Ruby and Diamond

Ruby and Diamond

or colour could be “made to order”

they symbolised rebirth

A gorgeous Victorian silver long guard chain dating from the latter half of the 19th Century

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

Vintage Atocha Silver Scallop Shell Locket modernist Ruby and DiamondDATE: 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,