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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 2203551, member: 2844&quot;]It is gorgeous, and to me it looks right for the period. The eyes could be rubies or maybe spinels. </p><p>Spinel was a popular stone at the time, it can be just as red as rubies, and it has very faint to no fluorescence.</p><p><br /></p><p>And probably about Burmese rubies. Ruby fluorescence is caused by chromium content, but if the rubies contain iron oxide as well, that has a negative effect on the fluorescence. Siam and Sri Lankan rubies, for instance, hardly fluoresce at all.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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