Victorian gold ring with tiger eye cameo.

[tamrock]

Picked this up at a TS yesterday afternoon. It is gold, but not marked. My guess by the color and other examples I've found I believe it's 10K ?. It was $12.95 + tax. It has been resized, so maybe the gold mark was removed or being so old and worn out the mark is now gone? It is inscribed under the stone setting with the name Lenna. I'm thinking she's not around anymore, so I've no chance to run her down and return to her. Total weight is 3.7 grams.

 

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[Rookster]

Nice find and sounds like a bargain.

 

[randazzo1]

Very nice! It’s in beautiful condition.

 

[Hawks88]

Good eye. Nice looking ring.

 

[bigdaddywittenauer]

Very nice

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[DeepseekerADS]

That ring is beautiful! I especially like the image of Christ on the stone. Great pick!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Congratualtions!

 

[tamrock]

Very nice! It’s in beautiful condition.

The stones a tiny bit loose. Still it ain't bad for being over 100 years old.

 

[tamrock]

That ring is beautiful! I especially like the image of Christ on the stone. Great pick!

I don't think that's Jesus. If you search images of a, 'Greek Revival Tiger Eye Ring' you'll come up with a few examples that look similar to this ring. With that I'm believing this ring would date to that period of this Greek Revival era of the 1890s to 1910s. I'm thinking it's somebody like Socrates or so it seems to me?

 

[Reanm8er]

This type of carved stone figurative cameo is called intaglio. I believe they were popular after WW2. I have my dad's, which is a warrior in hematite. A really thin gold ring but very elegant. I don't think it's marked either but it never tarnishes.

 

[tamrock]

It's not carved inward, as that would be an intaglio. This is carved in high relief, making it a cameo
https://www.decorartsnow.com/design-dictionary-intaglio-versus-cameo/

 

[diggummup]

Nice looking ring. Couple thoughts...
Could be 9k as well, some of the English Victorian ones were, you should test it. In my opinion yours does appear to be older in design as opposed to the Art Deco era ones. These rings were popular well into the 30's. I can't see the profile well enough on my phone to comment on the profile depicted. Good find.

 

[tamrock]

Eventually I'll have it tested. I just go down to the pawn shop and they do for free. I'm only basing the profile, by the others I see online with a carved tiger eye. They all seem to depict a greco-romam motif and none I see are religious in nature. I wouldn't be surprised to find that all or most of these carved tiger eye stones came from one particular region of the world. It could have been like a fade at one time getting a ring like this, much like mood rings and Lindy sapphires were in the early 1970s. I still believe it's very late 19th to early 20th century in age, but I could be off on that.

 

[diggummup]

The image appears to be that of Zeus. Does he have a laurel wreath on his head? Still hard to see at that angle. https://www.1stdibs.com/jewelry/rin...arved-cameo-zeus-ring-circa-1870/id-j_694193/

 

[tamrock]

IDK This Tigers Eye quartz makes it kind a hard to reveal the details of this relief carving. Could be zeus Take a look at it w/o color

 

[A2coins]

Well done