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Makers make help. 70’s style gold ring with 8 diamonds and large garnet Question: Hi there.

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I have an early style 1970’s ring. 18CT. The design is like lattice gold bars that have 8 small diamonds set in pairs and a central red garnet almost 1CM long.

On the inside of the band has “18CT” and on the opposite side has either:

• PAIsL
• FAisL

(the is “is” hard to read) engraved.

Any help would be great!!

Answer: G’day and many thanks for your query.

Sounds like a classic style 1970’s ring as Garnet was (and is) still a spectacular gemstone which doesn’t cost the price of diamond or ruby etc.

The mark may be a ‘Smudge’ because the only thing I can understand is the letters PALL - which would stand for Palladium.

Is there any white colored metal on the ring, say around the gem settings?

If there is - then this is the Palladium the stamp may be referring to.

Without testing the ring (and I can’t even see it) there’s not a lot more I can do to help. I suggest you might like to take it to your local FRIENDLY jeweler and have them test it for you.

There will be a small fee for this - but at least then you’ll know.

You might also like to add this query to my blog at http://how2valuejewelry.com/ as other may have had a similar problem. Can’t hurt anyway and who knows what answers you may get.

Hope this helps…