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Find Out MoreIn the early 1900s when this ring was made the fashions were lace and satin, ivory and pale blues and pink colours. The jewellery followed the look so necklaces, bracelets, brooches and rings had a certain delicacy and prettiness about them. NaturalA natural stone is called such because it has not been subjected to any treatments. pearls were used a lot and as in this ring they were interspersed with apple green demantoidA sub-variety of andradite and the moat valuable of the garnets, the colour ranges from dark green (hence sometimes miscalled "Uralian emerald") to yellowish-green (hence sometimes miscalled "olivine"). It is the most expensive and rare of garnet gemstones. It has many similarities with the diamond ("demant"), hence its name (meaning 'diamond-like'), but it ... garnets that had been recently discovered in the Urals in Russia. It is a lovely example and was made in Birmingham in 1908.
This is a truly pretty ring!
Assayed in 1908
Maker's mark WJH
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