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"He was charged with transposing the hall-marks from certain articles of goldware to other similar articles of the same or inferior value
The details are stunning: fine openwork scrolls of platinum adorn the gallery around the gemstone
it's studded with rose cut diamonds in 'pie-crust' mounts
19th century naturalists
Stone: Transitional Cut Diamonds (0
Victorian Lobster Claw Pendant pearl "He was charged with transposingIts a lobster claw and it was mounted in the Victorian era, around 1900. The claw itself evokes opulence and extravagance, but its quite plainly mounted (in silver, sure but still), nothing too fancy. A contradiction. So who would have made this worn this and why? At the beginning of the 1800s, lobster was a garbage meat thought only fit for cats, prisoners, and fertiliser on farmers fields. A meat known as "poor man's chicken", lobsters were so
