I’m sorry, but nothing will ever better the magical twinkle of an old cut diamond. This fat stone was hand cut, about 130 year ago; a diamond cutter sat at his bench and figured out what the hell to do with the rough diamond, and used his EYES and BRAIN to tell him how to fashion into this absolute beauty, and he may well have done it by candle light. The mind boggles.
Characterised by a small high table facet (the flat one on the top) and clearly visible culet (where the bottom point has been cut off, today it is kept on for maximum brilliance, but they didn’t know that then!), true old cut diamonds are a real work of art, and finite. This stone is eye clean and draws a little colour, it is bursting with brilliance and sparkle.
This diamond was the central stone in an antique bar brooch. I converted it because I could keep the character of the original piece, the gold and platinum collets were beautiful and there was no need to mess with them. ‘All’ my very clever jeweller did, was melt the gold from the brooch, and use that gold to make the bale. Sustainable perfection.
The original brooch was circa 1910, but the diamonds are earlier, circa 1880/90
18ct rose gold and platinum, all the metal is from the original piece and the diamond has not been out of its mount.
12.2mm in its entirety, the diamond is estimated to weigh 0.46ct
Excellent
I’m sorry, but nothing will ever better the magical twinkle of an old cut diamond. This fat stone was hand cut, about 130 year ago; a diamond cutter sat at his bench and figured out what the hell to do with the rough diamond, and used his EYES and BRAIN to tell him how to fashion into this absolute beauty, and he may well have done it by candle light. The mind boggles.
Characterised by a small high table facet (the flat one on the top) and clearly visible culet (where the bottom point has been cut off, today it is kept on for maximum brilliance, but they didn’t know that then!), true old cut diamonds are a real work of art, and finite. This stone is eye clean and draws a little colour, it is bursting with brilliance and sparkle.
This diamond was the central stone in an antique bar brooch. I converted it because I could keep the character of the original piece, the gold and platinum collets were beautiful and there was no need to mess with them. ‘All’ my very clever jeweller did, was melt the gold from the brooch, and use that gold to make the bale. Sustainable perfection.
The original brooch was circa 1910, but the diamonds are earlier, circa 1880/90
18ct rose gold and platinum, all the metal is from the original piece and the diamond has not been out of its mount.
12.2mm in its entirety, the diamond is estimated to weigh 0.46ct
Excellent
