1 of 2 | A gold locket was returned to a New Zealand family about two months after being lost at a grocery store. Photo courtesy of New Zealand Police
May 11 (UPI) — A century-old heirloom locket was returned to a New Zealand family nearly two months after it was lost at a store.
New Zealand Police said the gold locket was found by a woman at Woolworths in Pukekohe South in March.
The woman handed the locket over to Counties Manukau Police, who posted a photo of the item to Facebook in the hopes of finding its owner.
“Weeks went by and nothing,” Senior Sgt. Jeremy Steedman said in a news release. “We were starting to lose hope that someone would claim it, until last week when we were visited by Cameron out of the blue.”
The man, Cameron, told police his mother, Merle Brett, had lost the locket while shopping. He was able to give officers a detailed description of the photos inside the locket, which depicted Brett’s mother-in-law and father-in-law.
“That locket has been in our family a long time and belonged to my mother-in-law,” Brett said.
She said she lost the locket at the store while en route to her 90th birthday party.
“I didn’t realize it was gone until I was back home, I was so brassed off,” Brett said.
She said it was her daughter who finally spotted the locket on Facebook.
“On Sunday my daughter called me and said mum, I think I’ve found it, she saw the image from the Police Facebook post and thought what are the chances two lockets were lost in the same place,” she said.
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