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Is this the mark ?http://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=51912

 

I may have the definition wrong, then.

I'm thinking of cut lead crystal.

 

Paste gemstones are lead glass................ https://www.gemselect.com/other-info/paste-gems.php

 

I'm only picking on you because I see this in descriptions of cameos of the goddess Ceres too: sheaf. It gets funnier with cameos when someone writes She has sheaths of wheat in her hair, when what they really mean is stalks.

 

There isn't much color or flash,the stones have a window/fish eye from being cut with the wrong angles for the material.

 

Another vote for cut paste rather than molded glass.

https://www.beladora.com/2018/12/the-magic-of-antique-paste-jewelry

@cxgirl Is the blue being reflected off something or is it refraction?

 

I don't know more about it, but it's lovely!

 

It is really stunning, cx. Love the decoration on the settings as well, a nice, subtle detail.

I agree, cut paste, which is the English term. I believe the North American term for paste is rhinestone, because it looks like the very clear rock crystal found in the river Rhine.
We call it strass, after the inventor.

The ebay set is gorgeous but not likely to be Georgian. Georgian paste is set with a closed back, just like Georgian gemstones. It is antique though.

 

Thank you, good to know I got something right.

 

Oh, we disagree about the flash and color, but that's okay.

 

We used to use the word "paste," but I think it went out of fashion. Or just came to mean "fake." (Too many movies where the jewel thieves were thwarted by "paste" )

I grew up thinking "rhinestones" must have a foiled back and... I often forget that I know better.

 

Rhinestones were orginally cut rock crystal. Now generally glass - but they can be made of paste, just to confuzzle. The reason I've always heard for the term here, is that they originated in Bohemia - River Rhine and all that.

Paste was cut glass with a lot of lead in it. The term tends to be used now for any bling with faux stones but I think of it as older.

 

Yes, cut lead crystal is what I thought...

hmmm. Part of the confusion may also be the tendency to use "crystal" and "glass" interchangeably.

 

thanks for all the replies folks

sorry for the confusion Jivvy, when I responded I had read only one article that gave the dates paste gems were used was the 18th century and ending by the late 19th century, so I thought that since my piece is early 20th century it wouldn't be paste. I've since done more searching and it seems paste gems were used in the early 20th century, so I do think mine is paste

thanks for looking johnny I don't think they are the same marks.

I would say a refraction. I'll take some outside photos to better show how they sparkle

 

In which case they should have been called Vltava or Moldau stones. The Rhine is nowhere near Bohemia. Mind you, rhinestone is much easier to say than vltavastone.

 

Marketing people definitely care more about ease of pronunciation than geography.

 

I think it is just an anglicised version of Rheinstein, the old German term for that clear rock crystal found in the river Rhine.

 

here are some photos outside

 

How big are the round sections across? They look bigger in this photo! So pretty!