Edwardian Goldstone Shield Signet Ring

$750.00

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Edwardian Goldstone Shield Signet Ring

$750.00

Description

DATE: Edwardian, 1913

An unusual Edwardian period signet ring with a shield-shaped goldstone face. It's crafted in 9 karat gold, with Chester hallmarks dating it to the year 1913.

Goldstone, also known as aventurine glass or monkstone, is a kind of glittering glass that has come to be used in jewellery as a semiprecious stone. One original manufacturing process for goldstone was invented in seventeenth-century Venice by the Miotti family, which was granted an exclusive license by the Doge. Urban legend says goldstone was an accidental discovery by unspecified Italian monks or the product of alchemy, but there is no pre-Miotti documentation to confirm this. A goldstone amulet from 12th- to 13th-century Persia in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania shows that other, earlier artisans were also able to create the material.

STONES

Goldstone

MEASUREMENTS

Head: 1.6 x 1.3cm

Width of band: 2.8mm

WEIGHT

1.6g

MARKS

English hallmarks for 9k gold, Chester 1913

CONDITION

Very good