Monolith
No. 504 · The Assay Office
from 19.5 g in 14K at US 10
$440 in vermeil
Image rendered from the 3D file we cast from.
No. 523 · The Assay Office
A nugget dome, cut flat on top.
The Assay Office
A facet is a flat polished face cut on a stone. Here a flat polished oval sits on top of a domed head, with nugget relief all around its sides.
Not every mass of gold is a rounded nugget. In 1865, in California, William Russell Davis took a mass of crystallized gold of about 201 troy ounces out of his mine: the Fricot Nugget. It was shown in Paris in 1878, disappeared, turned up again in a bank vault in 1943, and is now at the California State Mining and Mineral Museum in Mariposa. Facet keeps that contrast: a flat polished oval on top of a domed head, with raw nugget relief all around its sides.
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.
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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.
More from The Assay OfficeMy 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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