Egyptian Hallmarks

Nice ring, @Violasm , and welcome. It is gold, there is no doubt about that. Is the stone a lab alexandrite?

The ibis mark in the centre is a general mark for gold.
To the left of the ibis is the fineness and assay city mark, which is too blurry for me to read.
The date mark on the right is also blurry, it could be for 1978-79, but I'm not 100% sure.

Just tagging someone for help with the photo: @Aquitaine , could you please tweak the marks in this photo?

 

Oddly, I Googled Egyptian marks since I don't know them too well but can match patterns with the best of them, and there was the ring on the 925-1000 discussion board.

https://www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5723

 

Thank you! The difference is in the right mark. )))

 

Different ring, not as elaborate, but the marks look like they could be roughly the same.
12k was one of my options too, but I would like to be certain, which I can't be with blurry pics. Looks like the same date letter too, but a different assay town, imo.

 

I really need to know an approximate year it was made.

 

Ah, so not the same date. Let's wait for Aqui the Tweaker.

 

For that I need to know what the date mark looks like, so we need our brilliant Aqui.

 

One poster in the link calls the ibis an Egyptian seagull. Cute.

 

If it likes to live near water and poops on your head, car, and everything else...close enough.(LOL)

 

Thank you! I cannot make these marks more clear, this is the best picture of them! ))) The right mark looks like J to me... I am not sure what stone it is really.

 

It is in Arabic script, that's all I know.

 

Reminds me of my niece as a toddler, she'd run up to ducks and shout "pidgeons!".

 

No dear, those are snack-beggers, not flying rats.

 

SO Sorry I'm so late to the party!!!! We had Internet access problems most of the day!!!! Seems the provider had our account messed up a bit, but our local techies helped the provider get it straightened out....FINALLY!!!!!! SO, I tweaked the mark the best I could, but doesn't mean I understand what I'm seeing other than what looks like a Cardinal bird in the middle to ME!!! Best I can do!!

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Thanks a lot!!! It's so much better to see now! I hope somebody else can give me more ideas about these marks!

 

Ibis, as aj says.

 

Perfect Aqui, thank you! Not late at all, btw. I was sleeping anyway.

It is 12k, looks like Tanta assay office. Tanta is one of the cities in the Nile delta. And I am now 99% sure that the date mark is for 1978-79.

 

I also enlarged the mark on the ring in THIS image....going 3X is almost pushing the limits before the program might distort what's there for something so small, but I don't think it did.....for YOU to decide, @Any Jewelry !!! Does it say 77 or 17? and i and something else below (a prone figure??)

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It is upside down, which doesn't matter because it is the same fineness and assay town mark that is also on the ring band.
North Africans love punching marks on every surface they can find on a precious item. I have an Algerian pendant with something like twelve marks, maybe more.
You have to love them for marking so much though, I wish other countries would follow their example. It would make life for jewellery collectors much easier.