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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 261225, member: 36"]The second one was probably made the way it is then; the top one looks like a marriage. Someone's ring broke and they liked it too much to just throw it in a drawer. </p><p><br /></p><p>The water trick can fail with old rings; one of mine just flunked it. The stone is green due to exposure to lord-knows before I ever got it. It has a hand cut split shank with some decoration on it, exact age...good question. If it were stabilized I don't think it would have turned colors like it did, so odds are exposure to hand lotion/skin oil can futz with the water test.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 261225, member: 36"]The second one was probably made the way it is then; the top one looks like a marriage. Someone's ring broke and they liked it too much to just throw it in a drawer. The water trick can fail with old rings; one of mine just flunked it. The stone is green due to exposure to lord-knows before I ever got it. It has a hand cut split shank with some decoration on it, exact age...good question. If it were stabilized I don't think it would have turned colors like it did, so odds are exposure to hand lotion/skin oil can futz with the water test.[/QUOTE]
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