Grandmas rings

[PChammer]

Grandma's rings

My wife and I have bags full of costume and real jewelry. I was told years back all this stuff should be thrown away by the local dealer. While I've mentioned we no longer have one, it may be a good thing. Now, from left to right in the first picture, on the silver ring, it says, .925 DQ on the band. On the second ring to the right, it has an A with a circle around it, that's all. The bottom picture, on the left, it says 925 and has a diamond shape stamp with something in the middle of the diamond. The last ring on the right, the one missing the middle jewel says 925 NGE and looks older than the others. I haven't found anything specific yet but still looking.

Thank you,

Paul

 

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[GL]

Re: Grandma's rings

Bottom picture, left ring. I like that...the rectangle gems are cool looking, she had good taste.

 

[Tuberale]

Re: Grandma's rings

My wife and I have bags full of costume and real jewelry. I was told years back all this stuff should be thrown away by the local dealer. While I've mentioned we no longer have one, it may be a good thing. Now, from left to right in the first picture, on the silver ring, it says, .925 DQ on the band. On the second ring to the right, it has an A with a circle around it, that's all. The bottom picture, on the left, it says 925 and has a diamond shape stamp with something in the middle of the diamond. The last ring on the right, the one missing the middle jewel says 925 NGE and looks older than the others. I haven't found anything specific yet but still looking.

Thank you,

Paul

I hope the local dealer isn't a good friend. Because he really isn't. .925 refers to the fineness of sterling silver, which is .925 fine silver. Fineness is the degree of purity. Anything with 925 or .925 should be considered to have high silver content until proven otherwise.

The large blue-green stone looks to me like an aquamarine. Trying going to google.com, click on the photo button just under the header, and type in aquamarine: should give you a few hundred photos of finished and unfinished aquamarine to compare to.

Back to serling silver: used to be a standard for silverware and fine jewelry. Some diamonds were mounted in sterling silver, especially when people proved allergic to copper or gold.

 

[Tony in SC]

Re: Grandma's rings

It does have value!! Besides the silver the real value is in the fact that it belonged to Grandma, especially to generations to come that did not get to know Grandma. When the local dealer said to throw it away, he was hoping that you would throw it in 'his' trash can!! Tony

 

[PChammer]

Re: Grandma's rings

Ah, so the 925 is in fact silver The aquamarine ring is the only one that I suspect my aunt bought my grandma that was newer, the rest she had prior.
As for the dealer, no, not a friend at all and what he said was,"They aren't worth a pot to p%$$ in, I would just throw them away, cheap costume jewelry is all they are, I have boxes of em' at home, I'll give you 10 cents each and that's being generous." I told him no, they still had personal value and he said ok, whatever, tapped his hand down on his counter and walked in the back room and I left.

Thanks for the info.

Paul

 

[Mike in Berks]

Re: Grandma's rings

Any chance you could post the marks you describe ? ? It would make it a lot easier
to make an ID on them.
I might've found the A with a circle mark ? Sure would be better if i could see them.

 

[Lucas]

Re: Grandma's rings

U.S. and Brit stuff says Sterling. Most other countries use the %, and 925 = Sterling in content.

As for the rest, costume was hot for a while. A lot of value is in the condition and the maker. You are going to have to use a loup and research the makers. And be picky about sorting by condition. If it is all torn up, it is junk jewelry.

Never trust dealers... they are in it for the money, not for the good of mankind.


(I know, never say never... there are some dealers I do trust, because they have always been honest in their opinions. Like one I know... I asked "these two are the same, why are they priced different?" "You're right, they are the same, but I had to pay more for that one... the prices have been going up.")

 

[PChammer]

Re: Grandma's rings

Any chance you could post the marks you describe ? ? It would make it a lot easier
to make an ID on them.
I might've found the A with a circle mark ? Sure would be better if i could see them.

Thanks, but I am having a hard time getting a picture it, will keep trying though. It's not a fancy A or anything, just a plain circle with a basic "A". Which from what I can gather, it's the company mark but have no idea who to look for.

 

[PChammer]

Re: Grandma's rings

Most other countries use the %, and 925 = Sterling in content.

Very well could be since a lot of the stuff is from Italy or Austria. My Grandmother was full Italian.

Never trust dealers... they are in it for the money, not for the good of mankind.

True, I felt like telling him, I was born in the day, but not yester-day. My wife told me he didn't leave, he went out of business, go figure....

 

[NGE]

Re: Grandma's rings

The ring that has 925 NGE in it, is mine, thanks for hanging onto it for me. really, I bet it says HGE heavy Gold electroplated, maybe at one time it was gold plated...........NGE

 

[PChammer]

Re: Grandma's rings

The ring that has 925 NGE in it, is mine, thanks for hanging onto it for me. really, I bet it says HGE heavy Gold electroplated, maybe at one time it was gold plated...........NGE

It still has traces of gold electroplate, not much though, plus missing the middle whatever it was, fake diamond likely, puts the value at 0. Looks to me like these rings are never going to be more than a keepsake at best. The top left ring at least has the silver going for it. None I suspect are real diamond, they all fog up, they can all be read through if I hold something up to them and they all have surface scratches plus I noticed on fake diamond there are way too many reflective spectrum colors, not like that bright whitish sparkle you get from real diamond. Anyhow, I think I'll mark this as solved and let it die. Maybe one day they will be worth a bit to my kids or theirs.

Thanks again all..

Paul

 

[NGE]

Re: Grandma's rings

The ring that has (NGE) 925 HGE is silver. It's just at one time it had Gold electroplating on it. I used to have a brooch that I found detecting that was marked the same, and it was sterling with gold plating. So hang onto that sucker..........NGE

 

[PChammer]

Re: Grandma's rings

The ring that has (NGE) 925 HGE is silver. It's just at one time it had Gold electroplating on it. I used to have a brooch that I found detecting that was marked the same, and it was sterling with gold plating. So hang onto that sucker..........NGE

Will do Thanks again!

Paul