Victorian starburst gold-filled locket necklace

Antique, Gold-Filled Locket Necklace, with single paste-set starburst. Among our most popular antique Victorian and Edwardian lockets is the starburst locket.  This style of locket dates to the latter half of the 19th century, and as with the majority of lockets at this time, it was produced with the option to be engraved with a monogram on one side.  The hand engraved monogram here is 'MK'.  The locket opens top to bottom and there is room for two photographs inside, with the both of the original inset photo frames and celluloid photo protectors intact, though they are yellowed with age. The hallmark indicates that this locket was made by the Wightman & Hough Company, a well known manufacturer of high-end gold-filled lockets operating between the 1850's-1920's in Providence, Rhode Island. On the reverse side from the monogram, this particular locket is set with a darkened, translucent paste crystal in the center of the spokes of a simple, hand carved starburst, representing the No