Featured 14k Stick Pin (Stone Help)

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  1. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Picked this up this evening

    14k stick pin with a St Mark Winged Lion. The lion has a diamond (tested) in his mouth.

    the green cabochon looks like glass? with inclusions

    any thoughts?

    thanks in advance

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  2. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Sorry for the squarish reflection (Photo Booth lighting)
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  3. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    With the wings, it's more likely a griffon, no?
     
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  4. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Could be beryl, somewhere on the color spectrum between emerald & aquamarine.
     
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  5. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    You didn’t have it tested when they tested the diamond?
     
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  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    But don't they usually have beaks? Whether designer had Mark's winged lion in mind...?
     
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  7. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    I saw the open mouth as very much like an eagle's.
     
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  8. mirana

    mirana Well-Known Member

    He's really beautiful. Designed well. Looks more like a stone than glass to me.
     
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  9. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    I have a diamond tester, I tested it. But my tester does not test other stones
     
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  10. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Hm, that may very well be!
     
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  11. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    It looks like there are air bubbles in it,what can you see?
     
  12. Aznathalie

    Aznathalie Well-Known Member

    Emerald cabochon?
     
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  13. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    14k , diamond........ glass doesn't make sense !
     
  14. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Gorgeous stick pin, Picker.
    Most winged lions have nothing to do with St Mark. It is a common symbol in most of Europe and Asia.
     
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  16. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    i MUST have that for my collection ! Its fabulous. Im no stone expert,but that looks like an emerald to me.
     
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  17. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Just to put it out there, in this case bubble inclusions would not prove the cabochon is glass. The emerald without inclusions of some kind is a valuable rarity. One type of inclusion they can have is gas bubbles.

    The diamond is an older cut.
     
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  18. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Yes, an early brilliant cut, looks like an old European cut.
     
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  19. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Wow, thanks for all the replies. I will try to get some better pictures monetarily with my digital microscope (hopefully without reflection)
     
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  20. JewelryPicker

    JewelryPicker Well-Known Member

    Nothing I can do about the reflections. If I turn off the microscope’s light and turn up the surrounding light I get a wide halo reflection that obscures the stone

    I do not see any air/gas bubble. There is what appears to be interior fracturing or crystalline and a few flecks of brown.

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