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A finely made 14ct58.5% pure gold (or 585 parts pure gold to 415 parts other metals) white goldWhite gold is an alloy of gold and at least one other white metal - most often nickel or palladium (both of which act as a bleaching agent to reduce the natural yellow colour of the gold). Art DecoA movement within the arts between the two Great Wars (1920-1935) across Europe and the US, characterized by its clean, geometric designs. The aesthetic was intended to celebrate an age of progress and the modernity of the machine. bow brooch 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... top that was made in the 1920s. It has been set with syntheticA man-made material with essentially the same optical, chemical and physical properties as its natural counterpart, but completely artificial. Commonly used for calibré settings due to the colour matching possibilities. sapphires and diamonds. It was made by a company called Pistol & Pulker which was run by Franz Pulker and Gustav Pistol. They operated between 1867-1922 in Vienna, Austria. At this time synthetic sapphires were used in a lot of jewellery. In 1902, the French chemist Auguste Verneuil announced a process for producing synthetic rubyOne of the most valuable gemstones on earth. From the corundum family, the red variety being ruby and the blue, sapphire. With the exception of the diamond, corundum is the hardest of the gemstones on the Mohs scale scoring a 9. crystals. Following this successful process Verneuil focussed his efforts on making synthetic sapphires which he achieved in 1909. Verneuil patented the process of producing synthetic blue sapphires in 1911. They became the rage and were used all over Europe in Art Deco jewels. This bow brooch has been set with a central fifteen pointA 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. 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... with shaped synthetic sapphires interspersed with rose cutThe ‘rose cut’, defined by its rounded outline and multiple triangular facets, is one of the earliest diamond cuts, with its origins in sixteenth century Europe. A rose cut typically has a flat base and anywhere from six to twenty four facets, the latter known as a full rose cut. diamonds within millgrained settings. It can be worn on a lapel or a beautiful dress
Austrian hallmark for Vienna
'585' for 14ct gold
Maker's mark 'PxP' for Pistol & Pulker on the pin
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