Featured Help with hall mark on Gold Ring - egyptian

Hello
Can anyone confirm the hall mark of the ring please.
Egypt 12 carat - date??
Thanks in advance

 

Yes, Egyptian 12K mark.

 

Example

 

It's not a seagull, it's an ibis. OP's assay office could be Beni Suef.

 

Thank you Bronwen and Aznathalie. Your images really help.
This is great.
Would the date be 1946-47 or 1947-48 given the way the character is facing please.

 

to muddy to know for sure....... 47' should be good enuf..

 

The 47-48 mark has a dot above it. I can't see that on your photo, but you have it in hand, could you check please?

Ditto. So many sites make that mistake.
Much worse, I've seen the lotus mark described as a broom. Ah yes, the Egyptian broom mark.

 

Looks like rose gold.

 

Yes, it is rose gold.

 

On slim evidence, I'm going to go with a date in the 1990s. May once have held a lab grown color change sapphire (frequently misidentified as alexandrite), which Egypt regularly set in rose gold. This mount is for an oval stone. Shapes other than round do not seem to have been on the market prior to the 1970s, when there was another wave of popularity for these flashy stones after their first appearance around 1940. The style may look antique, but Egyptian jewellers used the same designs for decades, at least.

 

it almost looks like it may never have had a stone

 

I could not see a dot.

No there is no dot. Thanks So 46-47.

 

Wow! Interesting. So the date mark may not be reliable. Thank you.
I like the braided rope on the outside of the ring. So I will will search for a stone but not sure what would go 22mm X14mm.

 

They switched from using Roman letters to Arabic in 1940, but there are only just so many letters, so they had to begin using them over again, before finally changing over to western style markings. Your letter looks like one that was used for more than one period.

 

amethyst .... goes with rose gold..

 

If it is one of the 'second rounders', it is 1996.

 

Might suggest it may have originally held a scarab, likely faience...

~Cheryl

 

This isn't law, just my observation, but Egyptian jewellery holding a scarab(s) does not set the beetle in a way that hides the legs on the edges, so typically a prong setting. You can see that anything set in the ring would sit down into the bezel, hiding the edges, so I think a scarab would be unlikely, although could make quite an attractive ring.

 

is see what u mean.....but the scarab could rise above the bezel....... right?

 

Pretty example. The exception that proves the rule (in the original meaning of that saying.) Doesn't look like this one swivels, although it is partly being held in place by pinning the drill holes at each end.

Yellow gold, & I would guess 18K or better. When I first acquired some earrings the seller knew little about, my researches turned up that the marks were Egyptian & karatage mark looked like 12. Wanting to verify this, I took one to the Yemeni shopkeeper on the corner to confirm. When he first got it in his hands, he said, What is this? Is this gold? Tourists will buy 12K, not the locals.