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Jewelry Values
by: Anonymous

Hi Eddie

great to know the info helped. You can get an expert on-line jewelry appraisal done here. You will need to send in a few images of the ring after filling in the form More details and be found here...

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Thank you, but I have a question...
by: Eddie

Hi guys; thank you for this post! Because of you, my wife and I found out what this ring is that we have. It's a ring with 2 snakes with diamonds on their heads. It belonged to my great, great grandfather, and is probably from the 1860's. I'd like to find out how much it's worth, and perhaps sell it - how would I go about doing this?

Thanks!

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Question about ring with the same marking
by: Anonymous

I too have a ring with the same marking in it. It appears as though it is rose gold. It has six rose cut diamonds and what I believe is a blue topaz. I will try to upload some pictures soon. The ring was given to me from a friend and I assumed it was a Victorian replica.

I haven't worn the ring in years because I had something fall on my hand while wearing it and one of the diamonds fell out and one of the ornate prongs broke. I've been wanting to get the ring repaired for years and was going to bring it to a local jewler for repair. However, now knowing that it may be an authentic antique ring I would not want to bring it to any jewler for repair.

Does anybody have any recommendations for a jewler in the Boston area that may be able to repair and replace the rose cut diamond?

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Uploading Photos Instructions
by: Yvonne

Hi Sheryl ! it's pretty easy to up load a photo in a submission on Antique Jewelry Investor. We are hoping (in the near future) to be able offer visitors the ability of multiple uploads per submission, but at time of writing it's still just one photo per submission.

Here is how you upload a photo. Go to invitation page where you submit your antique gold hallmark questions:
https://www.antique-jewelry-investor.com/antique-gold-hallmarks-question.html

After you fill in the question part you will
see this : Upload A Picture (optional) [ ? ]
Underneath you will see a button that says Choose File. PRESS THAT BUTTON. Then upload away. If you get stuck, let me know and we will work together on it.

If you would copy and paste the two recent questions together (like you did here) in a separate submission it would be greatly appreciated. Visitors often use this forum as a data base, to identify similar marks they may have on their own jewelry. It just makes everything a bit less chaotic :-)

best regards
Yvonne Hammouda-Eyre

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picture of ring
by: Sheryl

I would upload a picture of the ring, but I don't know how to do a "follow-up submission".

Actually, I have questions about two other rings (I have a loupe now - I'm dangerous), but I don't know how to submit those, either. Questions:

1. Sapphire and diamond ring I bought in an antique jewelry shop, stamped 750 on inside of band (18k gold). Turn ring upside down and on other end of band (inside, of course) it has the numbers 9027. What does that mean? Can hallmarks be just numbers?

2. Emerald and diamond ring (tiny emeralds, tiny diamonds). Stamped 14k 585 - clear enough. Then turn it upside down and there's another stamp, apparently a hallmark - the initials E.S. inside a rectangle. The initials look a lot like that for Ehrlich & Sinnock here, except here there is no rectangle:

http://chicagosilver.com/jmarks5.htm

Still, Ehrlich & Sinnock made jewelry from 1909 to 1931 (deco), and the style of this does look deco. Do you think it's Ehrlich & Sinnock?

I would be happy to resubmit these questions properly and also upload pics if someone could explain to me how to do it.

Thanks.

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Monroe B. Bryant Jewelry Maker
by: Yvonne

Sheryl - Nice piece of detective work! "Monroe B. Bryant lived very near me on W 20th Street in NYC (but 100 years before me). I got that from a NYS directory from 1900".

If you could upload a photo (in a follow-up submission) of the front of the ring, (we already have a photo of of the makers mark submitted by another visitor), many of us would love to take a look at Mr Bryant's workmanship.

Yvonne Hammouda-Eyre

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more on the MB Bryant mark and company
by: Sheryl

I did a little more research, and the mark is based on the "Rosebower" trademark owned by MB Bryant & Co:

http://jarrett.fabpage.com/jewelrytm4.htm

The person giving the link to this page was answering a question from someone else who had a ring with a mark of three interlocking rings. She said this was the only mark she could find that looks like this (as would be the case since it's based on a trademark).

So I'm quite sure my ring was made by MB Bryant & Co. The shield on my ring is the same as in the photograph and the diagram. (Why do they call that a "shield"?)

Monroe B. Bryant lived very near me on W 20th Street in NYC (but 100 years before me). I got that from a NYS directory from 1900. And I found this from the Jewelers? Circular, Nov 16 1898:

"Monroe B. Bryant, of M. B. Bryant & Co., 10 Maiden Lane, Sunday commenced his 50th year as a manufacturer of rings. Mr. Bryant is now 74 years of age, and has been connected with the jewelry industry for nearly 60 years. He founded the firm of Bryant & Bentley, the predecessors of M. B. Bryant and Co., on November 13, 1859, and has been prominent as a ring manufacturer since that time."

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Shape of the Shield
by: Robert

The shield that jewelry marks are in come in all shapes and sizes, elegant and ugly, monstrously huge and grotesquely ornate, historically authentic and absurdly impractical. Jewelry trademarks AND the shield must match.
Robert

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maybe it is MB Bryant & Co
by: Sheryl

I think perhaps I was too quick to say it's not MB Bryant & Co's mark. I've been doing some research on them, and a 1902 "Jewelers' Circular" (from Google Books) has an ad from them saying they'd been around for "two generations". So they were making rings in the 1890s (when my ring was supposedly made), and marks from a company can change a bit over time. My ring (and the ring photographed here) may just have earlier versions of this company's mark.

How common can it be, after all, to have a mark that is a picture of three interlocking rings (not just circles, rings with stones) in a uniquely-shaped polygon?

I'm interested to hear others' opinions.

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I have a ring with this exact same hallmark
by: Sheryl

I have a ring with this identical hallmark, and I don't think it's the "M. B. Bryant" hallmark, though they are similar. In the hallmark on my ring, just as in the photo, the middle circle is slightly higher. That's different from the Bryant hallmark. The circles are also not as overlapping on the ring as they are in the Bryant hallmark.

The ring was sold to me as Victorian from the 1890s, but that has to be taken with a grain of salt. The seller also told me it was a 3ct ruby (it's a 2.2ct ruby) and a 14k gold band (it's a 10k Russian gold band). But it COULD be Victorian from the 1890s.

I'm fine with the inflated description because I got a pretty ring at a good price, anyway. I'm just curious how old it is and where it came from. The stone does appear to be old and the band is a Victorian style. There is no mark for the gold inside the band. I know it's 10k because I had it tested.

How do I go about researching this hallmark?

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Three Circle Trademark
by: Yvonne

Hi Nicole - even when I zoomed close-up it was difficult to see the trademark symbol in sharp detail. From the photo, the gold band looks to be dangerously thin, it very well could be an early to mid 1900's ring. It's hard to tell without a photo of the front of the ring.

In the early part of the 20 Century, the Keystone Publishing Company published an annual guide called The Jeweler's Index that contained marks and other reference material. The jewelry mark below is from the 1922 edition.
It could be the following jewellers trademark, they use three interlocking circles within a shield.

thanks for writing to us...
Yvonne Hammouda-Eyre
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