Super Vintage 1970s Solid 9K Rose Gold 14.4Ct Smokey Quartz Cocktail Ring 1971 5
A wonderful vintage Modernist solid 9k rose gold smokey quartz cocktail ring, hallmarks for Zem Ltd., London 1971. This fabulous vintage solid 9k rose gold cocktail ring has a very striking Modernist look with a beautiful 14.4 carat oval faceted smokey quartz which glows a deep black-brown with flashes of lighter browns depending on how it touches the light, the smokey quartz set with four large double-tipped curving prongs above an open gallery created with large light catching curving circular desisgns with applied curved gold work shoulders leading to a wide band-a super pretty eye catching ring! The ring has full English hallmarks inside the band with maker’s mark ‘ZLD’ for Zem Manufacturing Jewelers Ltd. who operated in the 1960s and 70s, ‘9 .375’ for 9k gold, date letter ‘q’ for 1971 and the London leopard’s head town mark.