LOL - JUST IN TIME TO GET AN ANSWER! I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT LINK - BUT IT ID ON THIS PAGE - THE RUBY RING - TRYING TO IDENTIFY HALLMARKS! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFO ON CRAWFORD AND COMPANY!
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Yellow Sapphires by: Anonymous
Greetings Sandy! a little piece of info about the yellow sapphires in the contemporary ring, No. 1.
Yellow sapphires are a gemstone from the corundum family and the color ranges from 'canary' yellow to 'golden', these are the names used in the jewelry business to describe the color spectrum of Yellow Sapphire.
Like all corundum, it has a hardness of 9 on the Mohs Scale of hardness.
The main source of prospecting is Sri Lanka, also found in less amounts in Australia, India, Madagascar, Burma and Thailand.
Price is far less than Blue Sapphires.
Most of Yellow Sapphire in the market has been heat treated, and may also be colored treated.
To make an informed decision when buying, the estimated price per carat (as in Jan 2010):
Stones less than 0.4 ct : US $ 100 per ct Larger sizes: up to US $ 1100 per ct
In vedic astrology Yellow Sapphire is connected to the power of the planet Jupiter, hence representing the power of knowledge, wisdom and also good luck and fortune!
Hi Sandy, thanks for writing in...a quick comment on the second ring - "from mother's estate - but not sure if it was grandmothers with diamond and rubies (3 rubies -ranging .55TW marque cut - have been told they may be Mayanmar), with 4 .02 diamond accents. The band is marked 14k and has, what I can only describe as an Italicized W that loops around into an almost closed circle/oval. The mark comes right before the 14K, so I believe that would be the right way, but if you turned it upside down it would look like a Script Captital C that connects to an Italicized M. "
I think your right, with the orientation, an italicized W which overlaps into an almost closed oval circle which is in fact an italicized C.
The sponsor's maker is: CRAWFORD Co. (Manufacturing Jewelers, Newark, NJ, USA) - ca 1880s - 1910
This antique ring sounds beautiful, could we ask for a description of the color and the cut of the rubies that you think may be Mayanmar rubies?
In the meantime Sandy I will keep researching the other areas of enquiry in your submission...
