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 Post subject: Any ideas, an old ring with crazed stone
PostPosted: Tue Jan 10, 2012 2:33 pm 
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My brother purchased a consignment of ancient coins recently, this ring was amongst them, under a bright light the 'stone' is red and has a crazed affect on top, I thought it was probably glass, but with my experience I usually need to measure properties to stand any chance of making an ID, any thoughts on what it may be?

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 Post subject: Re: Any ideas, an old ring with crazed stone
PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:39 am 
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Really difficult to make any guess,may be you can post a picture with a strong torch light under the stone,so that we can see what kind of red it shows.
i have came across ancient jewellery and stones many times,but never saw a glass stone studded in a ring like that.normally ancient jewellery consists more of beads made using natural glass.
curious to know which coins your brother bought?
coins may help to understand the civilisation this ring belonged to and their jewellery patterns can help guess the stone this ring has.
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I'll get it back from my brother and will take some more pics, all I can say for now is that the ring came in a consignment of coins from Israel.


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Hi !

Maybe amber :?: I've seen old amber in this state

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