#c298 $2,600 Sold
Platinum/ruby ring, c.1900
This remarkable platinum ring features a ruby (about 0.75 cwt) that is red to deep pink in color. The ruby is surrounded by various graduated mine-cut diamonds varying in size from 0.01 cwt to 0.10 cwt. Their combined total weight is about 0.72 cwt.
This brilliant ruby brings to mind the much loved lines of the poet of A.E. Houseman from A Shropshire Lad (1896):
When I was one-and-twenty
I heard a wise man say,
"Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free."
But I was one-and-twenty,
No use to talk to me.
This ring comes with an appraisal.
The condition is excellent. Buy it and wear it! The size is approximately 5 1/2. Rings can be adjusted by two sizes up or down without damaging the settings.
