Please help identify ring

[CarolineG]

Hello,
I was recently given this ring as a gift - it was bought from a good quality antique shop who assured that the metal was tested as being 18k gold and the stone a diamond. However, there are no marks at all.
The ridges are all the way around
Can anyone please share some information about age and/or country it came from.
The shop is in Melbourne, Australia...but that could mean nothing !

Thank you,
Caroline

 

[livannie]

Hi CarolineG, I think it looks like it's from the Victorian period. I could be wrong but I am guessing by similar rings I have seen. I have a Victorian blue zircon ring I bought off eBay, I took it too a jewelry store at a mall to get sized right after it came and they said they'd never seen a ring like it. I am sure they wouldn't know much about zircons. But before they sized it, it was stamped 18ct and one of the guys there said only Europe used a ct stamp. After they sized it, the 18ct hallmark was totally gone. I won't take any more rings there to get sized. My local jeweler never messes with the hallmarks. Anyway, it looks like you've got a neat ring. Maybe someone else here can tell you more about what they think it is.

 

[livannie]

This doesn't look exactly like yours but similar in my opinion
http://www.ebay.com/itm/YELLOW-GOLD-14K-VICTORIAN-10CT-GENUINE-NATURAL-DIAMOND-RING-/151106070505

 

[oldminer]

For sure, it is a Victorian style ring. It may well be authentically old, but reproductions of such rings were, and still are, widely produced. The ring given in the second response from eBay looks more like a cast reproduction since we can see it more closely. It has some irregularity on the upper left tops of the shank at the shoulder tips and porosity present in the central setting which would not be so common in a true Victorian item. I suppose there was lesser workmanship back in the late 1800's just as there is today, but it was not typical, even for little items. There was a higher level of workmanship in even less costly items 100+ years ago.

You might take a good close-up shot of your ring, so it could be examined more closely.