Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings trench art Sardonyx – 11

Sardonyx – 11

half a carat in weight

It displays a vivid cornflower blue

sometimes with the words Ich Dien (I serve) on a ribbon beneath

and it's picked up a gorgeous patina over the years

Victorian Goldstone Torpedo Earrings trench art Sardonyx – 11DATE: 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