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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 662182, member: 36"]I haven't gotten to testing the gold content yet, but I'm fairly sure that's what it is. The ring was sized at some point, and I think they cut out whatever marks it had. The stones are garnets, but I'm trying to figure out ... how old this is, where it came from, and what's up with that silver disk in the back. In really old pieces they used silver to set off diamonds and other fancy stones because no one had platinum or white gold yet. But... who'd bother to do that to garnets? </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]184994[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184996[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 662182, member: 36"]I haven't gotten to testing the gold content yet, but I'm fairly sure that's what it is. The ring was sized at some point, and I think they cut out whatever marks it had. The stones are garnets, but I'm trying to figure out ... how old this is, where it came from, and what's up with that silver disk in the back. In really old pieces they used silver to set off diamonds and other fancy stones because no one had platinum or white gold yet. But... who'd bother to do that to garnets? [ATTACH=full]184994[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]184996[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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