Hancocks

1.45cts Oval Pigeon's Blood Burmese Ruby Ring in 18ct Rose Gold

A beautiful Burmese ruby ring by Hancocks, centred with an oval Burmese ruby weighing 1.45cts and of Pigeon’s Blood colour, in partial rub over setting to elegantly tapering shoulders channel set with calibre cut rubies of matching hue, all in a finely hand crafted 18ct rose gold mount with D shape band.
£30,000.00
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Information

Maker
Hancocks
Origin
London
Period
Contemporary
Gemstone
1.45ct oval Burmese unheated ruby with GRS certificate stating the colour is 'Pigeon's Blood' 0.75cts total of calibre cut rubies
Setting
18ct rose gold with maker's mark and London assay marks
Dimensions
UK finger size K, US size 5.25 (Can be adjusted to any size) Head 8.2mm wide and band 2.5mm wide
Weight Description
3 grams
REF
127950

Director’s Notes

Rubies mined in Burma have long been held as the absolute ideal in terms of colour for a ruby, they are an exceptionally beautiful rich deep red with neither too much brown nor pink in it. The term ‘pigeon’s blood’ has historically been used to describe the most beautiful and coveted colour for rubies, allegedly due to its similarity in colour to the blood of a pigeon. Opinions differ as to the exact origin of the term with some saying it came from the Burmese, others that it was first used by the Chinese who had previously owned the area where the Burmese ruby mines were discovered and yet others sighting it as having Hindustani origins where lapidaries compared the colour to the blood red of a pigeon’s eye. Whatever the truth, one thing everyone agreed on is that only rubies of the finest vivid red colour with deep saturation and which showed a soft red fluorescence in daylight were referred to this way. Today rubies from both Burma and Mozambique can show this coveted colour and be certified as such.

About The Maker

Hancocks

Within the archives of the London jewellers Hancocks, there exists the most extraordinary book.  Large, heavy and showing distinct signs of age it is filled with page after page of diary entries documenting almost one hundred and twenty years of not only company history but social history as well.