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Old Sapphire Rings

It is often thought that, silver rings are made with small or low grade gems. While this might be true, there really is no technical reason for this happening. You could have silver rings with large gems or 925 sterling silver rings with good quality gems. Similary, you might also come across gold rings with small gemstones. An old sapphire ring found in U.K dates back to the 7th to 11th century.

The interesting thing about this antique sapphire ring is that, the gemstone is a modest 6mm round cabachon blue sapphire. It does seems interesting that such an antique jewel made in an alloy of high gold content (90% gold), was set with such a small gem. If you were surprised with the gem size like ours, here is another surprise. British researchers claim that this ring most probably belonged to Anglo Saxon or Viking royalty. Kaisilver experts cannot deny the claim, as no first hand inspection was done on the jewel. The old sapphire ring was classified as state property, and is not safely locked in a British museum.

Now let us analyze the reasons for such an important ring having an almost insignificant gemstone! If you talk about British royals today, the 2011 Prince Williams and Kate Middleton wedding was consolidated with a 19 carat ceylon sapphire and diamond platinum ring.

After checking the issues related to this sapphire gold ring, our experts concluded that this antique blue sapphire ring was most probably worn for it’s meaning rather than, as a show of wealth or power. Just to take you back to those times, the sapphire was believed to protect the wearer from physical assault and even assissanitation. It was common for queens and kings to become victims of poisoning – ancient people claimed that the sapphire could remove the dangerous elemenings of poisons.  It does seem like the most likely reason for the old saphhire reason having a small gem is that, the jewel was worn for protection.

From the above report you could see that, while silver rings are more likely to be made with small gems, it is  not uncommon for gold rings to have small gem stones too. You can check the complete report on the interesting find at http://www.kaisilver.com/old-sapphire-ring-ks-info-01.htm Our support team at sales@kaisilver.com will be glad to help you with any gems or jewelry related queries or requirements. Our report on small gem stone rings will take you deeper on this topic http://www.customjewels.net/small-gemstone-rings-10x.php you will also see some excellent examples of gold or 925 sterling silver rings with moderate to small sizes gems.