Victorian 15ct Gold & Platinum, Fleur De Lys Pendant / Brooch Set With Diamonds

This is a gorgeous and impressive diamondA precious, lustrous gemstone made of highly compressed carbon. Diamonds are one of the hardest materials known to mankind. Colours of diamonds range from colourless, yellow, orange and brown to almost black. Natural coloured (or ‘fancy’) diamonds can be extremely rare. The cut, colour, clarity and carat weight of a diamond are the criteria jewellers use… brooch that was made circa 1880-1900. It is 15ct62.5% pure gold (or 625 parts pure gold and 375 parts other metals). Popular during the Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco eras but was discontinued in the mid-1930s. gold with a platinumDerives from the Spanish word ‘platina’ meaning ‘little silver’. Acknowledged since the 1900s, platinum’s durability and natural brightness has been and still is today highly treasured A metallic element prized for its rarity, whiteness, high tensile strength and insusceptibility to corrosion, platinum first became widely used in jewellery in the late ninete… front and has been set with graduated old mine cutAn 18th, 19th and early 20th century diamond shape, typically cushion or asymmetrical, marked by a small table, a high crown and a large culet. Culets are the small flat facets at the bottom of a stone which appear to the untrained eye as a hole in the middle of the stone. Before the advent of modern machinery which allows for the precise faceting we see tod… diamonds. They are well matched bright white stones. It is a fleur de lys design. The fleur de lys represents the Christian Trinity, and in the Catholic faith represents purity and innocence.

It can be worn as a brooch but also as a pendant. The brooch fitting closes on to a protected clasp that won’t dig in to you if you decide to wear it as a pendant. The pendant fitting is on a hinge so you can lift it up to take a chain.