Featured Is this a gem or paste ?

I think this one is from the Victorian period but I can’t figure out if this gem is real or what it is. Has a very faint crack on the surface.

 

Late nineteenth. I’d suspect citrine.

 

Looks like a gold setting. Probably citrine, unless it has Scottish hallmarks. They'd call it a cairngorm whether it was mined in Scotland or not. (sassenach tourists, don'tcha know.)

 

I vote citrine but ya really have to put it on a tester to be sure

 

Beautiful.
Another vote for citrine, and possibly a Cairngorm.

Cairngorm is the name for yellow/amber and brownish stones found in the Cairngorm Range in the Scottish Highlands. They can be either citrine or smoky quartz.
Cairngorms were also used by makers outside Scotland, for instance in Birmingham.

 

Cairngorm! another name to add along with muffineer!

 

A beautiful name, but I always associated with sleet and snow. It is the coldest part of Scotland, forbidding but impressive.