Is this an OEC?

[melave]

Hi all

I bought this ring off DB and it was sold to me as an OEC. For some reason, i have my doubts (I don't know why, i just do)

So do you think it is an OEC? I can't get an measurements apart from it is about 5mm in diameter


thanks in advance

 

[armywife13]

Looks like one to me

 

[Dreamer_D]

I think it is a transitional, early modern round brilliant. Chunky, fat arrows, low crown, largish table. Can you see an open culet with you loupe?

 

[Sky56]

Yes, I think so too. The stone I own that I thought was an OEC is a transitional, it has those attributes you mention, also.

 

[armywife13]

I think it is a transitional, early modern round brilliant. Chunky, fat arrows, low crown, largish table. Can you see an open culet with you loupe?

Good point, I should have looked closer.

I agree with Dreamer.

 

[Amys Bling]

It's lovely

 

[melave]

HI

Thanks for the replies

The culet isn't very big at all, not like i have seen with other OEC on here or like my other ring which was sold as OEC



You guys are right as i bought a pendant that was sold as a transitional and it doesn't have the open culet and the cut looks similar



thanks for your help

Thanks Amy. I do like it, still not 100% i want to keep it in this setting though

 

[Dreamer_D]

Replace those slightly dead looking trilliants with ruby or sapphires!

 

[melave]

thats what my plan is Dreamer I actually though black spinels might look nice

I started a thread in the coloured stones section

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[denverappraiser]

OEC’s have the same basic facet pattern as modern round brilliants.

8 pavilion mains
16 lower girdle facets
8 crown mains
16 upper girdle facets
8 star facets
Table

That’s 57 total. They also have an extra facet on the point at the back called the culet, which brings the total to 58. Some modern stones have this too but they’re uncommon after about the 1950’s. They differ from modern stones in that they tend to have smaller tables, higher crowns and shorter lower girdles. You’ll notice that none of these things is an absolute boundary that makes one stone a Euro and another modern. Add to this that ‘old’ and ‘European’ are NOT requirements and ‘modern’ round brilliants started being cut back in the 1930’s, which isn’t all that recent.

Is yours an OEC? It doesn’t really look like it to me because it doesn’t have a culet and the table looks to be in the high 50’s. You're lower girdles are short (which gives it that chunky look) and the crown looks to be pretty tall. 'Transitional' is a pretty good choice if you have to have a word but that's even more flexible than OEC when you try to pin down exactly what it means.