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Rough_Rock
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- Aug 27, 2019
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Hey everyone, happy new year! lol
Just got this ring I’d like opinions on:
It was listed very briefly from a seller with good ratings as a vintage estate 14k gold ring with spinel (I asked and the seller said it was tested on a jzk gem tester). It was fairly inexpensive so I was like, hey it might be nice, because the color is pretty. But now that I have it it’s a lot more abraded than I thought and I don’t see a gold stamp on the inside of the ring. There’s what looks like 2 solder joints on the shank so maybe it was resized so much the stamp was removed?
I expect some facet wear sure, but there’s a strange pit on the crown? Almost like it was drilled or stabbed with something blunt
I have a Mahenge spinel that I compared it to (to the right in this photo) and the UV reaction looks like a lot of nothing on this stone.
The color looks like maybe rubellite, but from some thermal conductivity charts I found online for these gem testers, it doesn’t look like they test very similarly to spinel readings.
Even synthetic rubies fluoresce so I don’t think it’s that...
What do you think? Thanks in advance!
Just got this ring I’d like opinions on:
It was listed very briefly from a seller with good ratings as a vintage estate 14k gold ring with spinel (I asked and the seller said it was tested on a jzk gem tester). It was fairly inexpensive so I was like, hey it might be nice, because the color is pretty. But now that I have it it’s a lot more abraded than I thought and I don’t see a gold stamp on the inside of the ring. There’s what looks like 2 solder joints on the shank so maybe it was resized so much the stamp was removed?
I expect some facet wear sure, but there’s a strange pit on the crown? Almost like it was drilled or stabbed with something blunt
I have a Mahenge spinel that I compared it to (to the right in this photo) and the UV reaction looks like a lot of nothing on this stone.
The color looks like maybe rubellite, but from some thermal conductivity charts I found online for these gem testers, it doesn’t look like they test very similarly to spinel readings.
Even synthetic rubies fluoresce so I don’t think it’s that...
What do you think? Thanks in advance!