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Find Out MoreThe contrasting colours in this ring are astounding. They have been specially chosen to compliment each other. In the centre are three opals that display vivid blue and green flashes of colour with red hints. Around them are small demantoid garnets or green garnets as they are commonly known.
Although garnets have been known since ancient times, the demantoid variety was not discovered until 1868 in Russia’s western central Ural Mountains. Miners were immediately stunned by the highly refractive nature of the gem material. They began comparing it to diamond and referred to it as “demantoid”, from the French “demant” meaning diamond. The reason is obvious, with its high brilliance and dispersion. These bright apple green stones are comparatively rare and very expensive as they are no longer mined. In the early 1900s they were a celebrated stone and many items of jewellery were set with these beautiful stones.
Around the green garnets are graduated old mine cut diamonds. The shank is 14ct gold so it may have been made in America circa 1910-1920. The whole of the top curves nicely around the finger so it looks fantastic when worn.
This is a stunning and really unusual ring!
Marked 14K
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