Featured Old diamond and platinum ring, what are these numbers?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by bluumz, Sep 3, 2019.

  1. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    Inherited from my grandmother who was born in England in 1911, but sadly too small for me at a size 6.5 US. My cheapie diamond tester goes off the scale with the slightest touch to the stones. What might the numbers 715-49-27 inside the band indicate?

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  2. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I've never seen a mark like that on a British piece. I'd speculate it's perhaps a code: bible verse, or something meaningful?
     
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  3. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    I suppose it may remain a mystery. No other hallmarks... could it be a British piece? She did live in Canada for a few years.
     
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  4. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    PLAT is how we used to mark platinum and it does look Art Deco ish.
     
  5. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Phone number? If lost, please call... My first thought was some kind of insurance registry. When I decided I deserved to buy myself a class ring after I finally completed my bachelor's degree, salesman asked if I wanted them to put my Social Security # inside the band. Told him Noooo! It has my name instead. (And it's a 6.5.) So some kind of national ID number. Where was she living when she married?

    Assuming it's an engagement ring?
     
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  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    My thought too. The rectangular stones must have seemed very modern.
     
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  7. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    :eek::eek::eek:

    England. She lived there most of her life.

    It certainly looks engagement ring-like but it was not her engagement ring. She may have acquired it at a car boot sale or charity shop (she and my grandfather did a lot of treasure hunting in the 1970s), though it's also possible she received/inherited it from a family member.
     
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  8. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I get the impression the stones really need cleaning. A nice thing to have handed on to you. Since you can't wear it.... Teasing, teasing. :playful:
     
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  9. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    The stones look beautifully clean/clear to the naked eye. My old camera phone can't focus on them properly and makes them look cloudy in the photos.
     
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  10. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    In the top photo,is the bottom right corner broken or just the way the photo came out?
     
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  11. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Love the ring. Can you wear it on your pinky?
     
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  12. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    No breaks, I'll try to get a better photo.

    Not without much difficulty. :shifty: Just call me fat fingers.
     
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  14. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    I think the general answer is that in some way they identify the ring as the property of a particular person & do not indicate anything about the ring itself or its maker.
     
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  15. bluumz

    bluumz Quite Busy

    I spoke too soon. I had a good look through my loupe and there is a corner chipped off. :arghh:
     
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  16. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Alas. In some lecture somewhere, sometime, heard a jeweller say that any diamond that has been worn constantly for any length of time, the way engagement rings usually are, will show tiny chips at exposed edges because diamonds have such great cleavage. Like cameos, lousy ring stones.
     
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  17. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    Looks like 3 corners are chipped and something strange on the left side like a crack and the metal holding the stone seems to have a piece missing.The stone to the right appears to have a bubble or something in or on it.
     
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  18. Marko

    Marko Well-Known Member

    I am thinking that the numbers are dates. 7-15-49, age 27? I think the numbers were engraved with special significance to the wearer.
     
  19. Jivvy

    Jivvy the research is my favorite

    I think the numbers are the combination to the lock.

    If you could only find the safe. :joyful:
     
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  20. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

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