Description
Date: 1890-1900s, late Victorian – Edwardian era
Materials: natural earth-mined diamonds, black enamel, solid 14k rose gold (unmarked; tested with electronic gold tester & nitric-muriatic acid)
Weight: 12.4 grams
Height (bottom tip to top of earwire): 30 mm
Dimension of drops: 20 x 20 mm
Diameter of diamonds: two 3.65 mm, eight 2.75 mm, twenty-four 2.5-2.6 mm
Approx. carat total weight of diamonds: 2.4 ctw, 34 diamonds total
Approx. clarity of diamonds: central cluster diamonds VS1-VS2, though one 3.65 mm diamond has a small feather; outer 2.5 mm diamonds in the SI range (none fluorescent, mostly eye-clean except for one or two small outer diamonds)
Approx. color of diamonds: well matched, most in the JK range
Condition: one small outer 2.5 mm diamond is a brilliant-cut later replacement (difficult to notice unless examining with loupe magnification). Another small outer diamond has a chip to the edge; all the rest are free from chips or surface blemishes. Some minor touch-up restorations to the black enamel. General age-related surface wear to the gold.