Featured HUGE, Mid-Century Modern? Citrine ring?

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by spartcom5, Mar 30, 2019.

  1. spartcom5

    spartcom5 Well-Known Member

    Bought this huge ring the other day. It appears to me to be mid century modern? Weighs a whopping 22 grams! I think the stone could be citrine but may also be glass? Does anyone know anything more about it? I don't think I have bought a bigger ring than this before! Must have had big hands as I can fit two of my fingers through the ring.
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  2. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Are photos on the way? Great. Excellent. My feeling is that it is an actual stone. Something about the cut is different from the way I have seen glass stones faceted. Citrine with this deep color has always been treated & often starts life as amethyst. The real gemstone people will get here with more informed opinions. Quite a knuckle duster!
     
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  3. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    made for Andre the Giant......:hilarious::hilarious:

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  4. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    Impossible to date without a maker's mark,it could have been made 20 years ago or 2 years ago.Nothing special about the stone,what is the inside diameter of the ring? If you have a lot of time you could search the 4 pattern catalogs for your ring design... http://www.waxpatterns.com/2014 Website/Catalogs on Line.html
     
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  5. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    I would wear that in a New York minute.
     
  6. reader

    reader Well-Known Member

    Age unknown IMO but I know someone who’s making rings just like this today. Almost identical. Same construction, same over the top proportions.
     
  7. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    When you think about it, how did maker get the stone in there? Think there's a small hole for the culet (the point on the bottom) & then 2 little slots holding the stone at the girdle. There are 'tension' settings, which are what they sound like, the stone held by pressure, but that's not what this is. I'm sure Holly will explain the trick of it.
     
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  8. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I'd say it's from the 80's.....maybe 70's...
    it takes a lot of honest wear ...to show the wear it has....
     
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  9. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

  10. scoutshouse

    scoutshouse Well-Known Member

    I see a paperweight in your future!
     
  11. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    No trick,it's just a channel set stone.Cut a couple grooves for the girdle and "hammer" a bit on top of the channel tops to tighten the stone in place.Tension set rings are more involved and too many people copied Stephen's process.
     
  12. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    It's the bit of 'hammering' I would not have thought of. Thanks for the explanation. Who's Stephen & where is his work sold?
     
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  13. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

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  14. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    A shame about the fatal accident. He looks vibrant & obviously was really thinking about the craft & not just doing the same old. I have 1 tension set ring, but jeweller 'borrowed' the technique.
     
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  15. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Very nice ring, spart.
    Just a note, in jewellery we don't generally speak of MCM. The style is Modernist, and as the others said, it could have been made from the 70s (or 60s) until now.
    The Modernist style in jewellery is not as decade defined as in furniture, for instance, hence no MCM.
     
  16. reader

    reader Well-Known Member

    I wasn’t familiar either (I have very little knowledge on contemporary jewelry) but just read his story. The rings I saw were in LA and now I bet they were his. I have never seen anything like them scalewise.
     
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  17. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    OK, where'd you buy it ?
    It must have been made special order......for a BIG boy !!
     
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  18. KSW

    KSW Well-Known Member

    Big enough to be a napkin ring!
     
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