Triptych
No. 536 · The Assay Office
from 15.3 g in 14K at US 10
$425 in vermeil
Image rendered from the 3D file we cast from.
No. 507 · The River
Rounded plates over a wide, low band.
The River
The heaviest gold sinks to the bottom, among the stones of the riverbed.
The heaviest gold does not stay on the banks; it sinks to the bottom, among the stones of the bed. In the 1850s, miners in the Sierra Nevada dammed and diverted rivers to work the dry bed. A dry bed can still give up gold: in 1995, near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia, a prospector whose name was never published found a nugget of about 56 pounds in a dry creek bed. That nugget, the Normandy, is now on show at the Perth Mint. Riverbed carries large, rounded plates, like stones smoothed by the current.
Your order details identify the selected metal. The weight is estimated from the 3D file we cast from. A cast ring comes out 2 to 3% lighter than its file, and the range shown already includes this. Your price is fixed when you pay and is never adjusted to the weight; your certificate records the actual weight. The interior is measured on the 3D design; finished samples still need workshop verification.
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Placer gold is gold the river has already freed from the rock and dropped in its gravel. These are bands textured all the way round, like gold-bearing gravel lining a riverbed.
More from The RiverMy uncle runs a jewelry workshop and makes engagement rings for brides. I develop the designs; each one is a 3D file, measured for its weight in every metal and size. His workshop casts the ring in your size after you order, and the certificate gives the metal and the cast weight.
Our story14K keeps the warm yellow of our pictures, and its price follows the gold price. Vermeil is the same ring in sterling silver covered with 18K gold, and sterling silver is the same ring again. Sterling silver and vermeil have a fixed price per design.
Compare the metalsCast in your size after you order, by my uncle’s workshop.
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