Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings Diamond A striking antique guard chain

A striking antique guard chain in 15 karat gold and featuring red and blue enamelled bars with white polka-dots and pearls

It's set into an elegantly proportioned 18k gold ring mount that dates from the very early 19th Century

the black background provided excellent contrast with the subject

and formed into an arrow-head motif

Coloured Paste Gemstones

Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings Diamond A striking antique guard chainDATE: Victorian, c. 1900 Goldstone, also known as aventurine glass or monkstone, is a kind of glittering glass that has come to be used in jewellery as a semiprecious stone. One original manufacturing process for goldstone was invented in seventeenth century Venice by the Miotti family, which was granted an exclusive license by the Doge. Urban legend says goldstone was an accidental discovery by unspecified Italian monks or the product of alchemy, but