Help identify this Pearl Ring

[joni3333]

Hey, guys, any information about this?Thanks.

 

[CortezPearls]

Looks like a baroque pearl, previously used as a pendant, hence the drill hole.
Ring seems to be made of silver, large setting...looks like some old style made in Taxco, Mexico.

 

[joni3333]

Looks like a baroque pearl, previously used as a pendant, hence the drill hole.
Ring seems to be made of silver, large setting...looks like some old style made in Taxco, Mexico.

This is a very old Turkish ring.

 

[StarryPearl]

This is a very old Turkish ring.

It would be easier for others to help you if you tell what you already know about the piece when you asked, instead of a “hey, any information about this?” and then deny with the info you hold. That’s a waste of others’ time and effort, and a loss of chance for you to get a more accurate answer.

 

[pearlescence]

How do you know it is 'very old' and Turkish?

 

[joni3333]

How do you know it is 'very old' and Turkish?

It was found in an abandoned Turkish village. I bought it cleaned and polished.

 

[KarinK]

I don't get why anyone would turn it so the hole is visible.

 

[CortezPearls]

This is a very old Turkish ring.

How old? The style looks very 1970's to me?
It definitively does not look old to my standards...500 years or more.
No silver patina...I mean.
And found in an old place does not mean it is from there at all! A tourist could have worn it last week, lost it there and then you simply find it.

 

[joni3333]

How old? The style looks very 1970's to me?
It definitively does not look old to my standards...500 years or more.
No silver patina...I mean.
And found in an old place does not mean it is from there at all! A tourist could have worn it last week, lost it there and then you simply find it.

I did a spectral analysis of the metal... It's definitely very old.

 

[CortezPearls]

I see it is almost 86% silver...but you cannot Carbon date a piece of jewelry like this one, unless it has shell, bone, wood, leather...organic stuff. The pearls does count for carbon dating, but this is not what you have done.
Spectral analysis will not tell you the age of a piece of jewellery: it tells you the composition or metal make-up of the item.
So, please tell me how this test can help you determine the age of a piece of jewellery?

 

[SteveM]

Spectral analysis is certainly a very good age indicator–of stars.

 

[StarryPearl]

I don't get why anyone would turn it so the hole is visible.

Weird indeed. Maybe this ring isn’t the complete piece, something else was fixed to the tip of the pearl by a peg glued into that hole but that part is missing? The last pic shows a small flat area near the drill hole that looks like filed flat, perhaps to provide a flat surface to let the missing part sit on securely, but that part still went missing anyhow. Just some wild guessing, don’t mind me, haha!

 

[StarryPearl]

I did a spectral analysis of the metal... It's definitely very old.View attachment 471561

Interesting! How does this tell it’s “very old”, and how old does this analysis tell you?

Are you trying to say 85.6% silver is uncommon nowadays, and the metal is so unpure with so many elements, so it must be very old?

 

[Lagoon Island Pearls]

The pearl is drilled, most likely repurposed. The bezel is factory rolled silver. The hand written spectral analysis is inadequate if not entirely bogus. Why photograph and submit a transcribed scrap of paper, when a photo of the lab certificate would have been infinitely simpler?

 

[KarinK]

Weird indeed. Maybe this ring isn’t the complete piece, something else was fixed to the tip of the pearl by a peg glued into that hole but that part is missing? The last pic shows a small flat area near the drill hole that looks like filed flat, perhaps to provide a flat surface to let the missing part sit on securely, but that part still went missing anyhow. Just some wild guessing, don’t mind me, haha!

To me it looks more like a cheap piece, reusing some left-over pearl and sold to tourists as old. Something you'd find in bulk. But the design is pretty and rustic so it's a pity about the pearl.

 

[joni3333]

To me it looks more like a cheap piece, reusing some left-over pearl and sold to tourists as old. Something you'd find in bulk. But the design is pretty and rustic so it's a pity about the pearl.

I bought it for 15 euros from an antique dealer. The pearl is natural and large.

 

[pearlescence]

The pearl is not natural.It is a low quality freshwater pearl, inappropriately set. The silver is below commercial sterling 925 standard and not sellable at all in Europe as it contains nickel.

 

[CortezPearls]

I bought it for 15 euros from an antique dealer. The pearl is natural and large.

I sure hope you got a reputable Gem lab certificate for the pearl. If not: definitively not a natural pearl.
The item sure looks like it has a cultured freshwater pearl, again: set in a 1970's style, low-grade silver ring.
For 15 Euros it is a fair price and surely not worth more.