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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;abbypanda, post: 2660461, member: 9362&quot;]I appreciate the replies. I heard 925 and &quot;sterling&quot; was often faked as mentioned. as I began to look at the Birmingham marks I concluded those could probably be faked easily as well....They are quite tiny and dont have much detail I dont think it&#039;d be hard. </p><p><br /></p><p>That said my hallmarked lockets came from UK sellers and I heard it&#039;s highly illegal in UK to fake them... but who knows.... Those 2 lockets I got are quite hard to find, in fact I&#039;ve not found any others with that pattern. I&#039;m inclined to think those are legit. They also come with the little fabric and all that inside. One had old pictures in it. Those can be faked also but nonetheless....</p><p><br /></p><p>Now he&#039;s another one I question. Picked this up recently. This locket &quot;design&quot; is quite common, though the etchings are always different. All sellers claim the same &quot;sterling silver, victorian era locket&quot;. Likely 1800s (late). </p><p>I began to inspect mine and I&#039;m starting to wonder if it&#039;s really a late victorian locket or a reproduction. </p><p><br /></p><p>The hinge is not silver. It&#039;s magnetic.</p><p>Neither is some of the inside. It def acid tests blue whereas other areas test red. </p><p>I&#039;m not sure, I dont believe its plated, probably just silver outside and not inside? I&#039;ve found other lockets from other sellers with the exact same model design, none are marked, and all different engravings. All the same claim from the sellers: silver, late victorian...</p><p>I&#039;m not sure the bail is correct though to be late 1880s nor the little hinge the bail attaches to. I only found 1 similar locket slightly different with a hallmark on it but the bail was different. </p><p><br /></p><p>My owl locket certainly mimics this, which has a hallmark. Right down to the 20 groves it has on the outside (I counted). Its possible the metal soldered inside covers a hallmark. I notice these styles of lockets all have scratchings usually Roman numerals on the inside also. </p><p><br /></p><p>I notice mine looks roughly soldered on the inside. </p><p>After acid testing again, there&#039;s a ring inside that looks to be a separate piece the locket is soldered to that holds it&#039;s round shape. This ring is not silver but the locket parts appear to be. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/896152-003122/Victorian-sterling-silver-locket-chain-Sydenham" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.rubylane.com/item/896152-003122/Victorian-sterling-silver-locket-chain-Sydenham" rel="nofollow">https://www.rubylane.com/item/896152-003122/Victorian-sterling-silver-locket-chain-Sydenham</a></p><p><br /></p><p>thoughts?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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