Featured Simple Closed Back Garnet Cabochon ring! Victorian or earlier?

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  1. spartcom5

    spartcom5 Well-Known Member

    I found this ring today for a little under scrap. It is worn quite a bit but is still very much wearable. It is a closed back so I assume that is means it is earlier or am I wrong? I was thinking Victorian maybe 1880s but other examples online say 1860s-1890s. Does this seem correct?
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    spartcom5, Jul 19, 2020
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  2. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    Without a maker's mark... it was made sometime in the last 100+ years.
     
    Hollyblue, Jul 19, 2020
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  3. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    The closed back has nothing to say about the age. I'd call the shape cigar band. Some Roman gold rings look not that much different from us. The shape is so simple & such a classic, date is...? But suspect this is some [This just in

    I was going to say 20th century & add maybe 1930s forward.

    Someone wore that to death.
     
    Bronwen, Jul 19, 2020
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  4. spartcom5

    spartcom5 Well-Known Member

    Thanks! I paid quite a bit under scrap so I'm still fine with it!
     
    spartcom5, Jul 19, 2020
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  5. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    The wear on the ring means little,I have re-polished stones and cleaned up rings which have had much more wear in as little as 2 years.
     
    Hollyblue, Jul 19, 2020
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  6. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    it only took me a few years of constant wear to get those fissures in my 14 K bar mitzva ring......
     
    komokwa, Jul 19, 2020
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  7. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    As a garnet lover, it's a pretty one! :cat:
     
    antidiem, Jul 19, 2020
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