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valhom

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Cats Eye Silver ring?
« on: September 23, 2013, 05:46:11 pm »
Here's a cats eye ring I picked up at a local thrift store. It looks like real cats eye. And it looks like real silver, or sterling silver. But, there is no .925 or any other mark on it. It doesn't attract any magnet. By it's design, can you try to pinpoint what era or maybe a certain company that could have made these? Thanks!
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2013, 06:07:47 pm »
Its not made by any company !! By the way its attached the set is something that was likely mounted by an independent jewelry maker or could be someones home project !! Many times these do not have a purity mark !!
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2013, 06:34:47 pm »
Ok. What kind of prices do these types of rings end of selling for on eBay? Thank you.
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2013, 06:44:10 pm »
I would agree with mart, not a company but an independent jewelry maker. Looks like silver with a cats eye stone to me. Although, it could be Alpaca or Nickel Silver (NS). Usually Alpaca and NS feels a little like nickel to me when rubbed between my fingers.

Usually unmarked rings don't go for a lot. My guess on a good day *might* be around $5 but who knows, find one like it in the completed area on ebay and see what they are going for. Good Luck!
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2013, 01:54:04 pm »
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2013, 02:21:00 pm »

It is Tigers eye although some call it cats eye !!  Rings are being sold in bulk from China for pennies !!
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2013, 02:28:59 pm »
Mart is correct....clever people ..the Chinese....thay import most of the worlds scrap metal....then churn out...everything from bean cans to cars...and sell them back to the west....i,ve seen similar rings on ebay...for .99p..with postage being nil....
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Re: Cats Eye Silver ring?
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2013, 11:05:01 pm »
Without any silver marking (perhaps there is one under the stone,on the finding itself) it's not easy to quote a price ... but not much more than $15 (if silver)in this area on a very good day , valhom .
Kinda looks like a mass-produced finding (the metal ring) for mounting stones in , as found in 'rock shops/lapidary supplies' , to my eyes .

It's actually fossilzed asbestos (tigers-eye) !
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