This eagle Antique Necklace with a briolette diamond is a versatile combination of necklace that can be modified to be worn as a pin. Please note that there are touch-marks on the outside of the pin and the coiled clasp and that the rose gold hinge and clasp both unscrew for complete removal. Additionally, the safety clasp is hinged to either keep the pin in place or lay flat out of sight when used as a necklace. The original rear-mounted rose-gold jump-rings are secured with a 16inch intermittent seed-pearl chain mounted with 1.5mm 'whitish-pink' colored full-drilled seed-pearls of 'good' nacre, secured with an unobtrusive lobster-claw clasp. Clenched between his beak, is a bail supporting a 1.01ct briolette diamond measuring 5.53mm x 5.07mm graded J color and I1 clarity, cleverly chosen with the central carbon-spot to look like a caged-bird or a bug-in-an-iceberg. It is my understanding that meat used to be thrown into diamond mines, which birds of prey would swoop down to retrieve, in so doing, giving up their lives to diamond hunters, hoping to find rough stones stuck to the meat. This could have been a fictional story too! Weighing 25.9g and measuring 16inches long and an additional 2.5inches wide and 1inch long, this intriguing Victorian Necklace is suitably impressive, esoterically sophisticated, desirably embellished, articulated with multiplicity and a conversation piece to boot. If you are still reading, this spectacular 18k yellow and rose gold necklace might well belong in your jewelry box.

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