Solid Silver Sydney-crafted ring, good weight and heft, a clean unfussy modern design, nothing tricksy about it, simply well-made and nicely finished, professionally polished, the Amethyst gemstone professionally set in Sydney by a master gemstone setter.
“Solid Silver” is just that, Sterling Silver, 925 parts in 1000 (hence the 925 stamp).
The Amethyst gemstone is of fine quality, of African origin, a clean transparent gemstone and of a particularly vibrant natural strong lilac-purple.
Amethyst was one of five gemstones known in antiquity as “Cardinal Gemstones”, considered precious above all others; all were prized for beauty and rarity. (The other four were Diamond, Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald.) However, the huge deposits of Amethyst Quartz in parts of Brazil came to the attention of the Portuguese colonists in the 1500s, and quite soon Amethyst was no longer the very expensive rarity it had always been.
Nowadays, in the early 2000s, Brazil is still a major world producer of Amethyst Quartz, but the Amethyst gemstones now sourced in the African regions of Zambia and Namibia have a growing reputation for the excellent clarity and the deep saturated purple colour of the gemstone in the above Solid Silver, Sydney-crafted ring.