1980s Cylinder Signet Ring

1980s Cylinder Signet RingCool vintage signet ring in solid yellow gold. The head stretches east to west across the finger with a rectangular profile and curved top and its reassuringly heavy and tactile. London hallmarks warrant the gold at 9 carat, and give us the year it was made: 1981, the year that George Harrison was made to pay ABKCO Music over $500,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" for his song My Sweet Lord with the Chiffons', He's So Fine. Era: Vintage, 1981 Ring

Small chip to the girdle of the garnet

it's an excellent example of the style

The glyptographer (the person who carved it) has taken a cabochon of rock crystal and carved down into the flat base of the stone (known as reverse carving) to create the subject

tested as 14ct gold (head testes as 9ct)

Hallmarks show the earrings were crafted in 9ct gold in Italy

but its popularity soared with the outbreak of the First World War

By the end of the decade

30ct Old European cut diamond

Stones: Old cut diamonds and turquoise

000 members under its General Grand Chapter

features veins of dark matrix running through it

5cm diameter - and date from the 1980s