Featured Help with 10K Gold and Blue Enameled Ring

I was at a thrift store today looking for buttons and couldn't pass up the jewelry case where I found this ring. It tests at least 10k but not 14k, and isn't marked except for possibly a faint maker's mark, which could be a flaw, although there aren't any other flaws on the inside of the ring. I haven't been able to find anything similar online. It's a size 9 1/2. Has anyone seen anything similar, or recognize the mark (if it is a mark)? Maybe the colors and blue enameled triangles represent something I'm not familiar with?

 

Not a quality piece,enough porosity it looks like a sponge.

 

Very unusual. I like it!.

 

Good thing I only paid $4.65, although it weighs 5.2 grams (including enamel).

 

I like it as well, and would have bought it too.
It looks inspired by an archaeological piece. With some imagination the mark could be a scarab.

 

Ooh, I like that possibility. Thanks AJ.

 

Your ring reminds me of some examples made by one of my sons when he was learning to make fine jewelry at F.I.T. (New York) in the early 1980s. His first attempts at rings with enamel inlay were very similar, a little crude until he got better at it . I still have one somewhere that he made for his dad.

Your ring could very well be a student creation in a jewelry class. An initial can sometimes be found on them.

 

You've got over $100 in gold there, so great deal at $4.65!

 

I seriously doubt any student would be playing around with over 5 grammes of gold.

aj has a good point, as ever. The design is very like some pylon or column border designs, Egyptian.

 

Thanks, Lucille. For now it will be stored with my other gold jewelry "finds" to sell in the future if/when my nest egg runs out (hoping I won't regret not selling at today's gold prices ).

 

Thanks OBB, maybe Egyptian pyramids?

 

It's more like the polychrome work you get at the top of what are called stele or pylons. I'l see if I can find an image, but have a google on Hatshepsut's palace.

 

Thank you OBB, I see what you mean.

 

I really like the color contrast. Very Unique.

 

Thank you Rehsmj, I do too.

 

I took another photo with the blue triangles looking more like pyramids.

 

@Ownedbybear You are not familiar with prices of gold in the early 1980s in NY, are you? Or course prices at F.I.T.? They do include the cost of student materials in fine jewelry courses. We should know, we paid them.

 

In college most of us used sterling or Merlin's gold,but there were the "privileged" who used gold and drove expensive cars provided by their parents.

 

I have a Spanish gold ring with enamel in the same colours. It features the Indalo Man, a prehistoric symbol found in Spain. Yours isn't Spanish though, they use full hallmarks.

 

My husband took an "art metals" class in college 50+ years ago and melted down his and my 10k gold high school class rings to make our wedding bands. The class didn't provide any way to mark student pieces.