Interesting ring

[cudamark]

Can anyone see something I've missed? I can't seem to find the manufacturer or designer named "Saber". I mostly want to figure out the other mark. Maybe a purity stamp? I ran an acid test and it passes at 18K and fails at 22k. It looks to me like the ring has a gold hub and 3 different "rings" were then pressed onto it making a kind of layered look. The stones don't test out as diamonds, even though each one has it's own window. I know my lighting isn't the greatest, but, it goes from a real gold looking (and testing) notched section on one end, to a white metal band with stones, then a notched white metal section, and then a smooth copper colored band with a groove down the middle on the other end. I've just never seen a ring made this way and would like to hear anything from you experts out there!

 

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[jewelerguy]

looks more like it says 'Gaber'

 

[The Dirt Pirate]

Dang that is nice. It's either Saber or Gaber.

 

[mcl]

FYI I would check Mexican purity stamps if I were you at this point. At first, I read it as "Sabor" which is Spanish and seems to be a word frequently associated with the topic of anillos de oro. Of course given the poor quality of the purity stamp, there's no reason to assume that the maker's mark was properly applied either -- for what it's worth, I did searches on every iteration I could come up with, from "Gabor" to "Sabot" to "Daber". Came up with nothing. Sorry I couldn't be of more assistance.

 

[cudamark]

I did the same thing and came up empty too. I was hoping an experienced Jeweler on here may have come across one like this before. Did they actually make rings like I described? Start with a hub and then press on other rings to make one big one?

 

[2Minnesota]

Try searching Jolie Gabor.

 

[cudamark]

Zsa Zsa and Eva's mother? What's the connection here?

 

[2Minnesota]

Zsa Zsa and Eva's mother? What's the connection here?

She designed and sold jewelry. Looks like "Gabor" to me. Just a thought, an idea to maybe search her jewelry to compare signatures. I believe she had a jewelry store even before moving to the USA. Not sure.

 

[2Minnesota]

Also, do the outer rings spin?

 

[cudamark]

No, nothing spins. I brought it to a jewelry store I know and they agreed that it scratch tested out at 18k. They couldn't figure out the purity stamps either.

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

Nice ring. I would be pretty sure that’s a very modern ring from an Arabic-speaking country. The maker mark does seem to be ‘Saber’, with an embellished ‘S’ and there are several jewellery companies with that name in the Arabic world, including in Dubai for example. The ring seems to be copied from styles used by Boucheron of Paris, and if you Google for ‘Boucheron mixed gold and diamond rings’ you’ll see similar examples.

The reason I think it’s from the Arabic world is that the cartouche marks seem to have an Arabic ‘2’ and an Arabic ‘5’ as the first and last characters:

From the spacing, it looks like maybe something is missing in the middle and that four characters might have been intended, so perhaps this was a date for 2005 (in Western calendar). Not all countries in that region have a tradition of official hallmarking and, if it were from somewhere such as Dubai, they had no system until 1st April 2023 when they introduced a compulsory six letter Hallmark Unique Identification code (HUID) for consumer assurance and to protect their export market to places such as India.

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Zsa Zsa and Eva's mother? What's the connection here?

Because it's fabulous Darling ! I call everyone darling because I can't remember their names