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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 10624525, member: 2844&quot;]Gorgeous ring, nastina. It is Turkish, made in the historic Ottoman style, which is still being made. That makes dating it difficult. One thing that means it isn&#039;t very new, is the fact that it has been resized.</p><p>Looks like the sapphire was treated, not unusual.</p><p><br /></p><p>We get this style jewellery a lot here in the Netherlands, because we have a substantial Turkish population. Most pieces are not nearly as nice as yours though, they are mostly the cheaper silver and brass variety. Yours is the real deal, with gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>They could be rubies, but they could also be &#039;zultanite&#039;, which is used a lot in Ottoman style jewellery. Zultanite, a type of diaspore, only occurs in Turkey[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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