Wide Face
No. 406 · The Claim
from 22.0 g in 14K at US 10
$450 in vermeil
Image rendered from the 3D file we cast from.
No. 520 · The Claim
Part nugget, part polished.
The Claim
Land surveys across two-thirds of California still start from a point fixed on Mount Diablo in 1851.
In the summer of 1851, in the middle of the rush, the surveyor Leander Ransom set the starting point of a meridian on the summit of Mount Diablo. The public land surveys of two-thirds of California and all of Nevada are still measured from it, and land, claims included, is described on that grid. Meridian is a cushion-square face split by a straight line: nugget relief on one side, flat polished gold on the other, the line that divides the ground.
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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A claim is ground a prospector has staked, marked at the corners and recorded in their name. These are the signets: a square, oval or wide face of nugget plates, set on plain shoulders like a staked plot.
More from The ClaimMy 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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