[ProtectOurFreedom]

It really is breathtaking when you consider the primitive tools the goldsmith had, the scarcity of steel tools, and the absence of optical loupes or microscopes. Look at the perfectly concentric circles -- how could the goldsmith have done that? If it was a single punch, how did he get the circles on the punch so perfectly uniform and concentric? Look at the very fine "tail" at the end. How was that formed? And how something so delicate remain attached for so long?

Simply astonishing. I wouldn't even know where to begin to make such an object today.

[Albion Wilde]

Look at the perfectly concentric circles -- how could the goldsmith have done that? If it was a single punch, how did he get the circles on the punch so perfectly uniform and concentric? Look at the very fine "tail" at the end. How was that formed? And how something so delicate remain attached for so long?

[Verginius Rufus]

Some Minoan art, from that period or slightly earlier, also has amazing fine detail—you wonder how the craftsman could manage to do it without magnifying glasses.

[Yardstick]

It is impressive. For the concentric circles I speculate he used something like a compass.

Gotta love that little curlicue...

[dennisw]

Circles and spirals... Very nice. All smart women like gold. So on the day he gave this too her...He got extra.....