Featured Antique gold ring

Hello everyone my name is Abdulrahman and I am from Lebanon.
This is my second post, the first one being in 2018 ‍♂️

So this ring belongs to my fiancee she inherited it from her grandmother. We live in north Lebanon.

We think its a gold ring but couldn't find any mark on it (18k, 21k...) could it be that it faded with time ? And we couldn't identify if the ruby is an authentic ruby.

I appreciate any information about the rings. Thank You.

 

Unless this has spent its whole life in a jewellery box, if this belonged to your fiancee's grandmother still looks like gold with not spots worn through to metal of a different color, it probably is gold. Looks pretty high karat as well. It is just as possible it was never marked as that the mark has worn down. I would expect there would be some trace if it was ever there.

I don't anything you can do yourself to tell if a ruby is natural or lab grown, but the easiest test anyone can do is to look at the stone under UV light. Rubies are quite responsive & can glow hot pink, not just reflect back purple light.

 

Very informative thank you

 

Quite a pretty thing.

Debora

 

And quite incoherent, now I reread it.

 

It is also a good sign that there are no small chips to the edge of the stone. Rubies are very hard.

 

I love it. Beautiful and my Birthstone.

 

Do not confuse hardness with brittleness. Jade is incredibly hard as it is not abraded/scratched by many other minerals. It is not brittle. However, diamonds are also brittle, they chip like hell. This is why FL diamonds turn into IF diamonds when worn for a month or so. Chips around a stone's girdle are indicative not definitive.
My GG 2¢

 

One corner is broken off.

 

I was using 'hard' in the way the average person would apply it to a stone. Corundum isn't just hard as determined on the Mohs' scale, unlike diamond, it does not have good cleavage, so much less vulnerable to chipping than diamonds are.

I'm not seeing @Hollyblue 's broken corner, but that does not mean it isn't there.

 

Broken corner.

 

I saw that spot, & you're probably completely correct, but I'm giving it the benefit of the schmutz/lighting artifact doubt until OP confirms.

 

nice ring !!

 

I lightened the photo, sure looks like a boo-boo to me

 

We knew what you meant!.