Here's something that might interest some of you. I was round at my aged parents' house today and asked to see a couple of rings that my mother keeps tucked away in a box. (I wanted to have a look at the stone settings.) Also in the box was this - I knew about it but didn't know where it had got to. It is a gold nugget found in Australia by my one of my great grandfathers some time in the second half of the 19th century during one of the gold rushes. I don't know the full story and must find out a bit more about it... The nugget weighs a little over 4 grams, including a few grains of rock/sand still embedded. The brooch is a simple hollow bar, not hallmarked but I assume it's gold, no idea what carat - is there a simple way to tell without sending it off to be assayed?
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