Citrine & Ruby Sterling Silver Vermeil Ring Size 7.5

Citrine & Ruby Sterling Silver Vermeil Ring Size 7.5

Mineral: Citrine and Ruby

Origin: Jaipur, India

Color: Yellow and Red

Treatment: Heat Treated

Material: Sterling Silver (925) with 2.5 micron Gold Plating 

Size: 7.5

Approximate Top Dimensions: 1.5cm x 1.3cm x 0.5cm

Approximate Band Dimensions: 0.7cm to 0.3cm

Weight: 6g

10% of this purchase will be donated to The Wildlife Protection Society Of India (WPSI)

People have used quartz in jewelry for thousands of years. Egyptians gathered ornately striped agates from the shore and used them as talismans, the ancient Greeks carved rock crystal ornaments that glistened like permafrost, and the hands of Roman pontiffs bore rings set with huge purple amethysts. Natural citrine is rare, and today most citrine quartz is the result of heat treatment of amethyst quartz. Even so, gems from the Victorian era have surfaced, and it’s not hard to imagine that citrine was treasured even in earlier times.

 In the first century AD, the Roman scholar Pliny included Ruby in his Natural History, describing their hardness and density. Ancient Hindus believed that those who offered fine rubies to the god Krishna were granted rebirth as emperors.

Hindus divided ruby into four castes, calling the true Oriental ruby a Brahmin. Someone in possession of a Brahmin was believed to have the advantage of perfect safety.

Ruby has accumulated a host of legends over the centuries. People in India believed that rubies enabled their owners to live in peace with their enemies. In Burma (a ruby source since at least 600 AD—now called Myanmar), warriors possessed rubies to make them invincible in battle. However, it wasn’t enough to just wear the rubies. They had to insert them into their flesh and make them part of their bodies.

The name ruby comes from the Latin word ruber, which means “red.” The glowing red of ruby suggested an inextinguishable flame burning in the stone, even shining through clothing and able to boil water.

Ruby has been called the most precious of the 12 stones created by God.

Ruby retained its importance with the birth of the western world and became one of the most sought-after gems of European royalty and the upper classes. Many medieval Europeans wore rubies to guarantee health, wealth, wisdom, and success in love.

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