Description
Date: c. 1870-80s, Victorian era
Ring size: USA 7, UK N, EU 54
Materials: citrine, seed pearls, 14k gold
Weight: 9.2 grams
Marks:
– [14k] for solid 14k gold
– [Peacock] for Elijah Peacock / House of Peacock, Chicago; mark used prior to 1889
Diameter of ring face: 21.3 mm
Height of ring face: 9.3 mm
Diameter of Citrine: 16 mm, depth of 9 mm from table to cutlet (approx. 10 carats)
Diameter of seed pearls: about 1.4 – 1.6 mm
Width of shank: 1.94 – 4 mm
Thickness of shank: 1.1 – 2 mm
Condition: Overall in good antique condition, especially when viewed with the naked eye. None of the 60 or so prongs are missing, but some appear “squished” and displaced (see pictures). But the citrine is tightly mounted and absolutely secure, due to the huge number of prongs present. Under 60x loupe magnification, I can spot age-related wear and shallow nibbling to the citrine facet edges, including three pin-sized chips. A small crystalline inclusion is surface-reaching. One of the seed pearls has a small shallow chip to its nacre, and another seems to have one of its nacre layers worn away. There is general age-related surface wear to the gold.