The Mystery Setting
The Mystery Setting is a a proprietary mounting technique for gems. There are no visible prongs, instead the individual stones are hand grooved to fit into a mesh of gold or platinum wire.
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“The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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