Featured Help with 10K Gold and Blue Enameled Ring

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  1. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    I was at a thrift store today looking for buttons and couldn't pass up the jewelry case where I found this ring. It tests at least 10k but not 14k, and isn't marked except for possibly a faint maker's mark, which could be a flaw, although there aren't any other flaws on the inside of the ring. I haven't been able to find anything similar online. It's a size 9 1/2. Has anyone seen anything similar, or recognize the mark (if it is a mark)? Maybe the colors and blue enameled triangles represent something I'm not familiar with?

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    Last edited: Nov 14, 2020
  2. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    Not a quality piece,enough porosity it looks like a sponge.
     
  3. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Very unusual. I like it!.
     
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  4. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    Good thing I only paid $4.65, although it weighs 5.2 grams (including enamel).
     
  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I like it as well, and would have bought it too.
    It looks inspired by an archaeological piece. With some imagination the mark could be a scarab.
     
  6. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    Ooh, I like that possibility. Thanks AJ.
     
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  7. lizjewel

    lizjewel Well-Known Member

    Your ring reminds me of some examples made by one of my sons when he was learning to make fine jewelry at F.I.T. (New York) in the early 1980s. His first attempts at rings with enamel inlay were very similar, a little crude until he got better at it :rolleyes::happy:. I still have one somewhere that he made for his dad.

    Your ring could very well be a student creation in a jewelry class. An initial can sometimes be found on them.
     
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  8. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    You've got over $100 in gold there, so great deal at $4.65! :)
     
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  9. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I seriously doubt any student would be playing around with over 5 grammes of gold.

    aj has a good point, as ever. The design is very like some pylon or column border designs, Egyptian.
     
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  10. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    Thanks, Lucille. For now it will be stored with my other gold jewelry "finds" to sell in the future if/when my nest egg runs out (hoping I won't regret not selling at today's gold prices :().
     
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  11. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    Thanks OBB, maybe Egyptian pyramids?
     
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  12. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    It's more like the polychrome work you get at the top of what are called stele or pylons. I'l see if I can find an image, but have a google on Hatshepsut's palace.
     
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  13. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    Thank you OBB, I see what you mean.
     
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  14. Rehsmj

    Rehsmj Member

    I really like the color contrast. Very Unique.
     
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  15. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    Thank you Rehsmj, I do too.
     
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  16. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    I took another photo with the blue triangles looking more like pyramids.
    ring-2.jpg
     
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  17. lizjewel

    lizjewel Well-Known Member

    @Ownedbybear You are not familiar with prices of gold in the early 1980s in NY, are you? Or course prices at F.I.T.? They do include the cost of student materials in fine jewelry courses. We should know, we paid them.
     
    Last edited: Nov 15, 2020
  18. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    In college most of us used sterling or Merlin's gold,but there were the "privileged" who used gold and drove expensive cars provided by their parents.
     
  19. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    I have a Spanish gold ring with enamel in the same colours. It features the Indalo Man, a prehistoric symbol found in Spain. Yours isn't Spanish though, they use full hallmarks.
     
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  20. Joan

    Joan Well-Known Member

    My husband took an "art metals" class in college 50+ years ago and melted down his and my 10k gold high school class rings to make our wedding bands. The class didn't provide any way to mark student pieces.
     
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