Beautiful vintage engagement ring with diamonds and big verneuil sapphire
Beautiful vintage engagement ring with diamonds and big verneuil sapphire.
Antique jewelry object group: rings
Country of origin: Although it does not carry any legible control marks we believe this to be of Belgian origin.
Style: vintage jewelry
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styles)
Period: ca. 1930
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events and facts in 1930)
Material: 18K bi-color (yellow and white)
gold
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precious metals)
Technique:
Extra information:
engagement ring - In Western
tradition, an engagement ring is a ring, of no generally accepted form, worn by a woman indicating her engagement to be married. Conventionally, the ring is presented as
a betrothal gift by a man to his prospective bride while he proposes marriage or directly after she accepts his marriage proposal. It represents a formal agreement to future
marriage.
In recent years such rings have normally been set with a gemstone, usually a diamond, as a solitaire, of varying sizes, cuts, styles, and cost, but in the
19th century some were set with a pearl. In the same century the custom arose in England of separate engagement ring and wedding ring, and in very recent years such
rings have sometimes been made en suite as a matching pair of similar style. In recent years, antique gemstone engagement rings are rapidly gaining in popularity.
In some countries, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, it is worn on the left-hand ring finger, while in other countries, such as Poland and Ukraine, it
is customary for the ring to be worn on the right-hand. Similar traditions purportedly date to classical times, dating back from an early usage reportedly referring to the fourth
finger of the left hand as containing the vena amoris or "vein of love". In the United States and Canada today it is becoming more common, but still quite rare, that a woman
will also buy her partner an engagement ring (also called a pre-engagement ring, promise ring, or 'mangagement' ring) at the time of the engagement.
Diamonds:
Six
rose cut diamonds. We do not
have the weight of the diamonds which is normal in our trade when it comes to rose cuts.
Precious stones:
One
sapphire (lab produced) (also
called
verneuil sapphire).
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precious stones)
Birthstones:
Diamond is the birthstone (or month
stone) for
April
and
sapphire for
September.
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birthstones)
Hallmarks: No trace.
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hallmarks)
Condition: excellent condition
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our condition scale)
Weight: 4.70 gram (3.02 dwt)
Ring size Continental: 57 & 18¼ ,
Size US 8 ,
Size UK: P½
Resizing: Free resizing (only for extreme resizing we have to charge).
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ring sizes)
Reference Nº: 09343-4086
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