Gold, sapphires, diamonds - vintage earrings at Violity
Antique gold earrings are another interesting lot on the Violiti website. It is generally accepted that jewelry only attracts the attention of women. But these earrings will be interesting not only for them.
56-carat gold earrings are made in the form of pendants. In the center of each of them there is a blue sapphire, cabochon cut. The surface of the stone is convex, smooth, polished, without edges. Each of them is additionally decorated with 12 diamonds in a circle.
To understand what the 56th test means, you need to go back several centuries. It was then, in 1733, that a spool sampling system was introduced, which consisted of 96 parts. She indicated the quality of the alloy, as well as the number of parts of gold.
There were 5 markings of the precious metal, among which there was 56 standard. It contained 56 spools, and the remaining 40 were ligatures - copper, palladium, silver. The latter were used to impart certain properties to the metal.
56 sample was considered one of the most common in tsarist Russia. A huge number of jewelry dating from the 18th-19th centuries can be evidence of this. Most of them were adorned with precious stones. Including sapphires and diamonds, as in the case of the earrings exhibited at Violiti.
In 1927, the spool probing system was replaced by the metric one. It still exists today. And new samples were put on products that were released at the time of cancellation and were not sold out. But they already corresponded to the metric system.
56-carat gold earrings are made in the form of pendants. In the center of each of them there is a blue sapphire, cabochon cut. The surface of the stone is convex, smooth, polished, without edges. Each of them is additionally decorated with 12 diamonds in a circle.
To understand what the 56th test means, you need to go back several centuries. It was then, in 1733, that a spool sampling system was introduced, which consisted of 96 parts. She indicated the quality of the alloy, as well as the number of parts of gold.
There were 5 markings of the precious metal, among which there was 56 standard. It contained 56 spools, and the remaining 40 were ligatures - copper, palladium, silver. The latter were used to impart certain properties to the metal.
56 sample was considered one of the most common in tsarist Russia. A huge number of jewelry dating from the 18th-19th centuries can be evidence of this. Most of them were adorned with precious stones. Including sapphires and diamonds, as in the case of the earrings exhibited at Violiti.
In 1927, the spool probing system was replaced by the metric one. It still exists today. And new samples were put on products that were released at the time of cancellation and were not sold out. But they already corresponded to the metric system.
