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Find Out MoreA late GeorgianJewellery made in the Georgian era (1714-1830). carved coralAn organic gem, calcium carbonate with a trace of carotene, deposited by tiny sea creatures living in the depths of warm seas in huge colonies. It grows in branches that look like underwater trees. Coral is believed to be one of the oldest forms of gemstone jewellery, with some pieces dating back as far as 23,000 BC. Maltese cross on a coral barrel linked chain, made circa 1820. The eight outer 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. of this cross are symbolic of regeneration. They are sometimes said to represent the eight beatitudes. The cross was the emblem of the Knights of St. John, who were driven from Rhodes to the island of Malta by the Turks. Malta is the island where St. Paul was shipwrecked. It is universally agreed that the four arms of the Cross stand for the four Cardinal Virtues – prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude.
The eight points also symbolize the eight obligations or aspirations of the knights: to live in truth, to have faith, to repent one’s sins, to give proof of humility, to love justice, to be merciful, to be sincere and wholehearted and to endure persecution.
Unmarked, tested to 9ct gold
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