Their little hands, their small features and huge, curious eyes. She knew, of course, that they would grow and change, but here, in this precious pendant of gold, she could keep them as they were when they were small. For they would always be her babies. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, people wore lockets to carry anything from a piece of fabric soaked in perfume to ashes of a deceased loved-one, from a diminutive piece of art to a lock of a child's hair, and, of course, portraits…