What are medallions?
medals are small cases of metal, such as silver or gold, in which the wearer can place small photos, lock lock or other small memento. They are usually worn on the chain around the neck, but they can also hang from a brooch supported by a pin.
medals are traditional jewelry objects and evoke Victorian sentimentality. Victorian young ladies could use the meda to hide a picture of their Beau or the man they wanted, their Beau. If a beloved man offered the castle of his hair to respect, the romantic situation could be considered quite serious and should be expected that a proposal for marriage should soon appear. Medals as gifts were considered a statement on the project.
The more grim type of Medim was a mourning medallion that held a lock of hair from an abandoned loved one. In the nineteenth century, with its strict social structure, the sadness had several very different observations. One of them was that the widow must wear black all year roundTila her husband, at the end of the first year she was able to wear the most subdued colors such as Mauve and Gray. During this period, sad jewelry was the only type of jewelry allowed. Any other ornaments would be considered a lack of respect for departed.
Sadness could include a medallion containing a miniature of the deceased, a brooch containing a lock of his hair and a possibly a portrait of a suitably mourning topic, such as angel -drained over the tomb.
Lockets today has no such connotation and is often simply a convenient way to transmit a photo or two of the first grandchild. Lockets specially made for proud mothers and grandmothers even contain a lengthy section in which you can insert a number of photos.
and of course with the advent of "Flash Memory" modules, which allows you to store many pictures on the alanyard around your neck is only a matter of time before some saving manufacturer will come out with MEDailicemi with flash memory unit Flash, where you can store all your photos of your children, pets and anything else to get anywhere.