Victorian Replica Gold Nugget & Natural Diamond Tie Pin

A fine example of a gold rush tie pin. Jewellery from the Gold Rush Era is rare. Gold was used as currency, so most of what was discovered during this time was traded for horses, food, or property. Only the richest prospectors and merchants had enough gold to have it made into jewellery for their wives and families. In the rare instances when jewellery was created, nuggets were used as focal pointsA unit of weight for a diamond, being one-hundredth of a metric carat. It is used for weights that are decimal fractions of a carat, and all figures after the second decimal point are, in the diamond and jewellery trade, generally discarded. as in this tie pin. It also has a 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… in its naturalA natural stone is called such because it has not been subjected to any treatments.  form. All our tie pins come with a stopper at the end of the pin.