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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Type of jewel: Vintage antique diamonds pendant
Condition: in dire need of some loving attention from a goldsmith
Style: Vintage antique
Era: ca. 1850
Material: Silver and details in 18K gold (touchstone tested)
Technique: Gold-backed silver or the silver on gold technique. This technique finds its origin centuries ago, when jewelers believed that only a silver mounting could render the true beauty of a diamond. Backing the silver jewel with a (thin) layer of gold was a practical precaution taken to avoid the silver jewelry leaving black stains on clothing or skin.
Extra information: This is what in our trade is called "a marriage". This means that parts of several jewels, somewhere in their life, where "married" together into this pendant.
Diamond(s): Eleven senaille diamond cut and rose cut diamonds, tested and guaranteed natural diamonds. A senaille is a simplified rose cut diamond, a small diamond chip with perhaps a few polished facets. We do not have the weight of these diamonds which is normal in our trade when it comes to senailles or rose cuts.
We have all diamonds in all our vintage and antique jewellery tested by the IJGC - lab whether they are natural diamonds or lab-grown diamonds. When diamonds in our jewellery turn out to be lab-grown we don't offer them. Therefore we guarantee that all diamonds in this jewel are 100% natural.
Birth and month stones: Diamond is the birthstone (or month stone) for April.
Hallmarks: No trace.
Dimensions: height 4,37 cm (1,72 inch) - See picture with a ruler in cm and inches
Weight: 3,00 gram (1,93 dwt)
Adin reference Nº: 23047-0260
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