centering on a prong set oval cut sapphire (8.57 x 7.45 x 5.5 mm) weighing approximately 2.90 carats within a halo of full cut round diamonds and with full cut round diamonds set to shoulders, stamped 900Pt and other markings obscured by sizing beads. Total diamond weight approximately 1.0 total carat (F-G color, SI1-I1 clarity).

Ring size 3.25 with sizing beads on mandrel

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

Sapphire displays a blue hue, medium dark tone and moderately strong saturation.

Good estate condition; a couple of diamond with chips and sapphire with minute nicks and abrasions visible under magnification.

$1,000 - 2,000