At the beginning I thought so, too. But I haven't found any evidence to that effect. Also the weight of the diamonds seems to be more or less...
Edit: I just saw that the English text does not match the German text, the old setting was made of silver and gold: "Die Diamant Ohrringe waren...
@moreotherstuff : I am really sorry, but the setting is not 18th century. They were set in platnium in 1959 by Harry Winston (first part in...
The sugar bowl and the buttons seem to be the "jewellery" in the above given link by @moreotherstuff. The earlist piece of platinum jewellery I...
Could you maybe link the source? To my knowledge the use of Platinum in the European jewellery started around 1890; though I don't want to...
I tend to disagree; the "man in the moon" face is not a modern/contemporary stone carving topic, you can already find it in late 19th centuray...
Are you sure the beads are lapis lazuli? I cannot see any traces of pyrite and the color is too dark/greyish blue.
don't get me wrong the earings in this posting have their right to exist, they are apperently made of gold and set with diamonds, they sparkle,...
I guess it could be phoenix, given the orange/fire colored stone
here is another link where the pave setting is also on a concave surface, if you enlarge the picture you can clearly see how the prongs are made...
Many, I am a trained stonesetter/goldsmith; here is a drawing how a proper pave setting looks (the staggered pave often has only two prongs per...
they may be securely set, but definitifly not in a straigth line and the "prongs" (I would not even go so far and call them proper prongs, just...
The setting of the diamonds is not very professional, maybe a reworked older piece? It also seems to me as if the piece was hallmarked before the...
There is copper rust/green rust on the back of the brooch; this happens to silver alloy, but not gold (exception very low grade "gold" alloys).
Regarding the brooch: the crescent brooch type was common throughout Western and Central-Europe at the time. If it is unmarked, chances are high...
Baden was an independent state within Germany/the German Empire and is now a part of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg:...
Excellent books on German and Austrian Jewelry are: Schmuck in Deutschland und Österreich 1895 - 1914, Ulrike von Hase, Prestel, 2nd edition,...
Both signs are Chinese, the first ist the traditional sign for shòu which means "long life"; the second is the stylized Chinese sign for fú which...
Synthetic rubies also glow under UV light, one should be very careful to just use an UV lamp to "distinguish" Brumese rubies from other rubies:...
Women started wearing cufflinks around 1900, the cufflinks made for them are smaller than men's cufflinks as the cuffs were different and also the...
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