Ruby Diamond and Gold, in a Regency tie-pin top design re-created in Sydney as the neatest of earring drops.
The Regency period of England in the early 1800s was one of considerable and considered elegance among the fashionable affluent, and one of the necessary appurtenances was a discreet and costly tie pin with which to keep in place the billow of silk cloth at the throat. The original Regency tiepin top design has been faithfully re-created, in size and in its stylized Canterbury cross form, but the original was centre-set with a round Diamond, an old rose cut of darkish glint, with small rose cut Diamonds in each of the four arms. The design has been re-worked in Sydney for a small square cut gemstone, in the above case a Ruby.
The above matched princess-cut Rubies, .20ct in the pair, are of top commercial AGrade Ruby Red, about as good as it gets in small Ruby gemstones.
.16ct in the eight 2pt Diamonds, proper White (H colour) and bright (SI clarity), much much brighter than the little rose cuts in the original, cut a full century before modern Diamond cutting techniques began to replace the old adamantine Diamond glint with sharp brightness. Nowadays it is simply not possible to easily source those old rose cut Diamonds, though there are some gemcutters still in Gujerat in west India, the centre of the Diamond trade in that country, who fashion rose cuts for a niche market.