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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 385945, member: 2844"]I agree, great photos. And nice rings, but I can't find the district assay offices for these either.</p><p>I love the egg yolk amber ring. Amber jewellery was usually assayed in Riga or Kaliningrad, in the Baltic regions. The amber ring is of a type still made in the Baltic states today, but the mark is obviously Russian. So maybe made before the independence of the Baltic states?</p><p>Green druzy quartz is not uncommon, but I have never heard of it in combination with chrome diopside, which is also green. There are people on the forum who know more about how stones are formed, and if druzy quartz on chrome diopside is a possibility. </p><p>If it is chrome diopside, the ring dates from after 1988-89.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 385945, member: 2844"]I agree, great photos. And nice rings, but I can't find the district assay offices for these either. I love the egg yolk amber ring. Amber jewellery was usually assayed in Riga or Kaliningrad, in the Baltic regions. The amber ring is of a type still made in the Baltic states today, but the mark is obviously Russian. So maybe made before the independence of the Baltic states? Green druzy quartz is not uncommon, but I have never heard of it in combination with chrome diopside, which is also green. There are people on the forum who know more about how stones are formed, and if druzy quartz on chrome diopside is a possibility. If it is chrome diopside, the ring dates from after 1988-89.[/QUOTE]
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