Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings Diamond Coloured Paste Gemstones

Coloured Paste Gemstones

It features the Jubilee head design by J

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

One side features a keyhole and foliate motifs

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

Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings Diamond Coloured Paste GemstonesDATE: 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