Featured What are all of the bright pink stones in this 14 K ring?

Marked 14K in two places inside the band. Any idea what these bright pink stones could be? How about the age of the ring? My grandma was a heavy collector of charity shop jewelry in England during the 1970s and this was one of her bits. It’s not really to my taste, LOL, but the stones are lovely and vibrant.
Thanks so much!

 

The rounds are all "single cut" which is usually used for glass stones,would need to tested to find out what they are.

 

Holly knows way more about fine jewellery than I do. I can't make any guesses about the stones based on how they are cut, but it's possible they are lab grown corundum, the mineral of rubies & sapphires. Ruby is really a color designation & just how red a stone has to be to qualify is somewhat subjective:

https://www.gemsociety.org/article/distinguishing-rubies-pink-sapphires/

Anything that doesn't make the cut & isn't blue is a 'fancy sapphire'.

They grow it in huge crystals, so karatage is not a big deal. The stones do not have great value but they are genuine rubies/sapphires, just not natural ones. There are lots of older gold rings with glass stones, but usually not with this much 14K.

As Holly said, you would have to test to know. Tourmaline can be this color, but doubt that's what these are.

 

Thank you Holly and Bronwen.

I have about 15 or so different rings from grandmother's collection and I hate parting with the money to get them appraised when they may not even be worth the appraisal. Several look quite "antique" but are only 9 carat gold. Others look "valuable" and one is even set in platinum and looks like a pale yellow diamond. I'm a bit overwhelmed!

 

Looks like a Thai "Princess Ring" in which case it would be contemporary to when your grandmother acquired it. Here's a simpler one with rubies. An internet image search will bring up other examples.

Debora

 

Yes, it does, thanks for the lead!

 

I was thinking that too. I have one with chrysoprase in several tiers. A friend in Australia told me the market was flooded with them in the 1970s. Southeast Asia known for cutting semiprecious stones, not for making glass, so that's encouraging.

 

They were a popular Vietnam War souvenir. No reason to assume stones aren't rubies (but testing needed to confirm.)

Debora

 

That's a nice bright gaudy ring - I'd wear that if I were you. We'd love to see the rest of the collection too.

 

With the poorly cast ring and the stones being very "clean" in the photos,the stones are probably synthetic.

 

Maybe a synthetic topaz? They come in the wildest colours.

I lived in Oz in the 70s, and most Australian stones were sent to Singapore to be cut. Natural and synthetic, it didn't matter to the Singaporese. But as you said, no glass.

 

The princess ring I have was from a couple who were selling her mother's jewellery collection but they were not desperate for the money. I bought a number of things from them. The ring is marked 14K, & they knew that, but because mother had bought it in Hong Kong, I think it was, they decided maybe it wasn't really solid gold & gave me a partial refund I did not ask for. I haven't had it tested, but have no reason to think it is not as marked, or close enough.

 

We bought a lot of jewellery in Hongkong in the early 70s. It was all as marked. We did go to reputable shops, maybe that helped.

 

If it's marked 14 K , then it isn't British of course.

 

I know my jeweler will Identify a stone for free, without doing an appraisal. In fact just yesterday ,I had him confirm that a very Blue Santa Maria Aquamarine I bought was really an Aqua since I had never seen one so blue. Neither had he, but it tested out as aqua.

 

spinel could also be the color of the stones in your ring.

 

I agree, you don’t have to get a formal appraisal, find a jeweler who will test the stones for you.

 

Explain this to me, wouldya?

Debora

 

I think if it were British it would be 14C, we spell it karat, they Brits spell it carat

 

In Britain it is carat, not karat. So it is marked ct, not k.