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    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Titanic's jewels on display
    • Fifteen pieces of jewelry recovered from the wreckage of R.M.S. Titanic recently went on display at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The exhibit, "Jewels of Titanic" is part of "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition" and will be on display until May 31, 2013.

      Read more: Recovered Titanic jewels to be on display in 3 U.S. cities

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Charm necklace

      Charms were believed to bring good luck and this type of jewelry was popular in the Victorian era. This necklace features a good-luck pig, a modified star with a three-leaf clover and a rose cut diamond engraved with the words "This Be Your Lucky Star."

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Button covers

      These men's button covers are made from diamond, onyx and gold. They would have been worn on a tuxedo, along with cufflinks and studs.

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Diamond filigree pendant

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Gold locket

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Sapphire and diamond ring

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Open locket

      This small gold locket features an engraving in French that reads, "4 Aout 1910," or "4 August 1910." The owner of the locket is unknown.

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Thomas William Solomon Brown's pocket watch

      Brown, a 60-year-old South African hotel owner, was a second-class passenger on Titanic, on his way to Seattle, Washington with his wife and daughter. The two women survived in a lifeboat and Brown's watch was presented to his daughter, Edith Brown Haisman, after it was recovered in 1993.

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas

    • Three diamond ring

      Credit: Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, Las Vegas