Cut steel

Cut Steel Jewelry
Cut steel jewelry consists of tiny faceted and polished steel studs riveted to one or more base plates. It used to be a very good looking substitute for diamond set jewelry.

Cut steel
Faceted studs riveted into arranged holes to created a pavé effect
Demi-parure
A small matching set of jewelry consisting usually of a brooch and earrings, or a necklace and bracelet, etc.

CUT STEEL: A metal often mistaken for marcasite. Cut steel faceted and hand-riveted to a buckle or brooch frame. Cut and faceted steel beads were often used as spacers or decorative accents on cloth.

Cut Steel: Steel studs that have been machine stamped, cut with facets, and highly polished. In the days before electricity, the faceted steel would be quite brilliant, giving the impression of gemstones in candlelight.

Cut Steel
Cut steel is steel that is cut with a huge number of facets and then riveted to a plate of steel (or other metal).

Cut Steel: Used to produced 18th Century jewels it is steel that has been cut with many facets and then riveted to a plate of steel or other metal.
Victorian Cut Steel Shoe Buckles ...

Creole earrings A hoop earring broader at the bottom than at the top, popular in the 1850's Cross facet Small triangular facets above and below the girdle of a brilliant cut stone Crown Part of a cut gemstone above the girdle Cut ...

There was a wide variety of materials used in the jewelry: turquoise, coral, pearls, agate, tortoiseshell, cut steel, sterling, gold and various grades of gold, jet, French jet (black glass), lava, onyx and paste, ...

Garnet sand is a good abrasive, and a common replacement for silica sand in sand blasting. Mixed with very high pressure water, garnet is used to cut steel and other materials in water jets. Garnet sand is also used for water filtration media.

Marcasite - A white iron pyrite, it takes on the appearance of "fool's gold." Marcasite is most often set in silver, and the term marcasite is now often loosely associated with cut steel or any white metal cut with facets.
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See also: Cut, Diamond, Jewel, Stone, Glass