Ample Antique Paste Ring synthetic spinel with British export stamp

with British export stamp

minimal religious pendant designed with a satiny finish and a simple weight to provide comfort day in and day out

• Inside of ring is engraved "G

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with a warm yellow band topped with white gold framing seven bead-set

Ample Antique Paste Ring synthetic spinel with British export stampFor as long as humans have been using gem materials thousands of years they have also been concocting imitations for those same gem materials. Paste, or glass, has been used to imitate gemstones since at least ancient Greece, but it was the development of a particular kind of leaded glass in the 1600s that made the material a more convincing simulant for diamonds. Adding lead to the glass (which is formed by solidifying molten silicon dioxide in an