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1980's Vintage Boulder Opal Ruby Diamond 18 Karat Yellow Gold Heron Bird Brooch Wilson's Estate Jewelry

1980's Vintage Boulder Opal Ruby Diamond 18 Karat Yellow Gold Heron Bird Brooch

Substantial brooch is designed as a stylized rendering of a heron bird
With a graceful, polished gold neck, grooved wings, and standing one footed on slender polished gold legs
Body is bezel set with organically shaped boulder opal measuring approximately 11.5 x 25.5 mm
Opaque and exhibiting strong green/blue play-of-color with some yellow/orange flashing near tail feathers
Mottled with pinfire play-of-color at chest with areas of brown matrix
Eye is bezel set with a round cut ruby weighing approximately 0.04 carat
Wings and tail are bead set with round brilliant cut diamonds
Weighing in total approximately 0.30 carat - G/H color with SI clarity
Completed by a pin stem with locking closure
Stamped 18K and 750 for 18 karat gold
Circa: 1980s
Measures: 1 3/8 x 2 1/2 inches
Total weight: 15.4 grams
Majestically. Towering. Waterfowl.