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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 409444, member: 5833&quot;]No, although possible this is not what was originally in this mount.&nbsp; Except for the 2,000 year old intaglio, it&#039;s very much tourist quality.&nbsp; Prongs may have been opened to take out a faience scarab then bent back, very carefully.&nbsp; It is secure in the setting.&nbsp; Fortunately ring is a little too small for me, so no temptation to wear it.&nbsp; Have a black &amp; white one in a Georgian ring that was not a bargain that I do wear occasionally.&nbsp; It looks like banded agate from a little distance.&nbsp; What I love about the green &amp; blue ones is that they do not look like any stone in nature, so were meant to be conspicuously glass.&nbsp; I imagine them to have been all the rage in some Roman summer of love.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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