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Hi there, my dad very generously bought me this beautiful ring at a jewellery shop last weekend in England. It was sold as 9ct gold and yellow topaz. It looks and feels so unique and special especially with the spiked/pointy prongs and the hallmarks on the outside of the ring.

I posted the pics on Reddit and someone suggested it might be Eastern European or Russian from the 1940s. Google hasn't brought up any help RE the hallmark (which I think is '506'?) or the prongs. I am so interesting in seeing if anyone might be any shed some further light - thank you in advance

 

Try Spain. Specifically, Barcelona. I think the other mark is the comet, meaning 18ct gold.

https://www.silvercollection.it/DICTIONARYEUHALLMARKSPAIN.HTML

Given you bought it here, that's not as unusual as perhaps the USSR might be.

PS. Barcelona design was and is often very avant garde, seriously stylish. Rather ahead of Madrid. I'm slightly thinking your ring is sixties or so, made for the new tourist trade.

 

Thank you so much for the information, so interesting! I think you're right about the hallmark - just have to find out what '506 B' stands for! Thank you

 

B is for Barcelona. The 506 will be whatever maker used that number, I'm not sure which.

If your dad was sold this as 9 ct he got a good deal, it's 18.

 

That is one gorgeous ring.

 

Thank you so much. I saw it in the window and was speechless when my dad said 'let's get it'. A lovely memory and a lovely ring!

 

nice ring.........Bling !
Nice Dad , too !!!

 

I came up with this jewelry manufacturer/retailer using B-506 as a mark. Don't think they've been in business long enough to have produced your ring. Anyway, they have a Facebook page with an email address. You can always ask. (Caution with the web site; looks dicey.)

https://www.facebook.com/tallerdejoieria/

Debora

 

Thank you, good find! I will have a look

 

Yours would have been a luxury good when it was produced in Barcelona. And there would have only been a jeweler to two or three with the kind of clientele who could have afforded it. You can check out Ernest Oriel. Founded in 1951 and known for their use of stones.

https://premiumnetworkingtimes.com/en/ernest-oriol-creating-beauty-since-1951/

Debora

 

That's so interesting! Thank you. Do you have any idea what it would have been sold for? We really didn't pay a huge amount for it!

 

The number of places that might have made or sold this will relate to the age of the ring, if that makes sense. In the forties and fifties, say, then yes, very very few. But the Spanish comet mark went on till the late eighties. And by the early seventies, when I got to know Barcelona and Catalunya very well, Barcelona had a very prosperous middle class, as did the wider area. Not just tourism but industry. Southern Spain and even Madrid was far poorer.

The seaside town we frequent had several excellent jewellers even in the mid seventies, and that wasn't even in the city itself. Pa bought stuff for my Ma, and I did for myself a few years later. Much is unmarked.

As an aside, I'm slightly surprised the shop here sold it as gold. That's not strictly legal unless it's hallmarked: it ought to have been called yellow metal with the possible addition of "tests as 9 ct". However, they obviously didn't test it and more fool them.

Out of sheer nosiness, and don't feel you have to answer, where was the shop and how much did your lovely dad fork out?

 

Thanks so much for this - I have messaged you