{"id":18066,"date":"2014-04-24T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18066"},"modified":"2024-02-21T12:40:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T12:40:30","slug":"georgian-pinchbeck-chain-with-turquoise-set-clasp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/shop\/georgian-pinchbeck-chain-with-turquoise-set-clasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgian Pinchbeck Chain with Turquoise Set Clasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A really good, heavy Georgian pinchbeck chain with zig zag engraved links and a turquoise glass set barrel clasp. Pinchbeck is a form of brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, mixed in proportions so that it closely resembles gold in appearance. It was invented in the 18th century by Christopher Pinchbeck, a London clockmaker. Since gold was only sold in 18 carat quality at that time, the development of pinchbeck allowed ordinary people to buy gold &#8216;effect&#8217; jewellery on a budget. The inventor allegedly made pinchbeck jewellery clearly labelled as such. Pinchbeck jewellery was used in places like stagecoaches where there was a risk of theft. Later dishonest jewellers passed pinchbeck off as gold. Nowadays these original chains are very sought after. It was made circa 1800 and is in lovely condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really good, heavy Georgian pinchbeck chain with zig zag engraved links and a turquoise glass set barrel clasp. Pinchbeck is a form of brass, an alloy of copper and zinc, mixed in proportions so that it closely resembles gold in appearance. It was invented in the 18th century by Christopher Pinchbeck, a London clockmaker. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":18068,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[5308],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiquejewellerycompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}