

Anvil
No. 501 · The Assay Office
$490

Collection
At the assay office, loose gold was melted, tested for fineness and cast into stamped bars. These rings take the shapes of that trade: bars, ingots, octagons and stepped frames, with the nugget relief set inside them.
At the assay office, gold was melted and cast into bars stamped with the weight and the fineness. These rings keep the hard edges of that trade: Bullion the straight smooth sides of a bar, Octagon the eight sides of the 1851 fifty-dollar slug, Deco frames that step down level by level to the nugget.



Every ring of The Assay Office is also made in sterling silver, in your size.


No. 502
Bullion is gold in bars. This one keeps a bar’s flat polished sides and puts the nugget relief on top, where an assayer stamped the weight and fineness.
$495 in vermeil


No. 501
In 1869 the Welcome Stranger nugget was too big for the bank’s scales at Dunolly, Victoria; the blacksmith cut it on his anvil. Anvil is a thick head with flat polished sides and nugget relief on its face.
$490 in vermeil


No. 531
In 1851 the US Assay Office in San Francisco struck an octagonal fifty-dollar gold piece, the ’slug’. Octagon sets nugget relief in an eight-sided face inside a stepped polished frame.
$445 in vermeil



Bullion and Grain on two fingers of the same hand: the shape of a gold bar, and the smallest unit of gold weight, 480 grains to the troy ounce.

10 rings in The Assay Office, in 14K gold, vermeil or sterling silver. Filter all the rings
Our story
My uncle runs a jewelry workshop and makes engagement rings for brides. I brought him nugget rings; his workshop casts each one in your size, after you order.
Our story