$360Sale Price|20% Off
1.65 Carat Natural Loose Blue Sapphire Octagon Shape Gemstone
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Blue Sapphire
2.11 Carat Gubelin Certified Burma No Heat Blue Sapphire
Located in Kowloon, Hong Kong
Whether for an engagement ring, heirloom piece, or investment, this sapphire represents the pinnacle of natural beauty and ethical sourcing.
Blue Sapphire
$9,560Sale Price|20% Off
13.75-Carat Emerald-Cut Aquamarine Loose Gemstone for Custom Luxury Jewelry
By Merkaba
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This gemstone is a perfect addition to collections featuring Luxury Aquamarine Jewelry, Bespoke Engagement Rings, and Heirloom-Quality Creations. Its elongated form and vibrant clari...
Aquamarine, Beryl, Multi-gemstone, Emerald, 18k Gold, Rose Gold, White G...
$1,392Sale Price / set|30% Off
Beige & Peachy Pink Natural Tourmaline Loose Gemstone Reverse Pair 5 Ct Cushion
Located in Peshawar, PK
Their refined cut and premium clarity make them ideal for creating timeless, heirloom-quality jewelry. Perfect for rings, earrings, pendants, or bracelets, this exquisite Tourmaline...
Tourmaline
$360Sale Price|20% Off
1.05 Carat Adorable Loose Sapphire Cushion Shape Gemstone
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Sapphire
$400Sale Price|20% Off
1.35 Carat Natural Loose Blue Sapphire Oval Shape Gemstone
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Blue Sapphire
$384Sale Price|20% Off
0.95 Carat Natural Loose Blue Sapphire Gemstone From Sri Lankan Mine
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Blue Sapphire
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Certified 3.24 Carat Faceted Blue Sapphire Oval Shape Gemstone
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Blue Sapphire
$600Sale Price|20% Off
Natural 4.20 Carat Faceted Deep Blue Sapphire Oval Shape Gemstone
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Sapphire
4.05 Carat Loose Blue Sapphire Oval Shape Srilankan Mine Gem
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Blue Sapphire
$680Sale Price|20% Off
5.60 Carat Gorgeous Loose Deep Blue Sapphire Oval Shape Gem
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Blue Sapphire
$400Sale Price|20% Off
0.85 Carat Loose Vibrant Blue Sapphire Oval Shape Gem For Jewellery
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Sapphire
$356Sale Price|20% Off
2.08 Carat Stunning Certified Loose Sapphire Oval Shape Gem For Jewellery
Located in Peshawar, PK
This durability makes sapphires ideal for everyday wear in jewelry, including engagement rings and heirloom pieces, ensuring they can be cherished for generations.
Sapphire
$288Sale Price|20% Off
19.60 Carat Natural Loose Purple Amethyst Fancy Trilliant Cut Brazilian Gemstone
Located in Bangkok, TH
With a Mohs hardness of 7, it offers both durability and beauty, making it ideal for custom fine jewelry such as statement rings, pendants, or heirloom designs. Amethyst, the Februar...
Amethyst
$328Sale Price|20% Off
4.95 Carat Natural Loose Light Blue Aquamarine Cushion Cut Pakistani Gemstone
Located in Bangkok, TH
Its versatile size and exquisite cut make it an excellent choice for fine jewelry perfect for a sophisticated ring, pendant, or heirloom piece. Known as a stone of serenity and timel...
Aquamarine
GIA Certified 0.26 Carat Fancy Deep Brownish Orangy Pink VS2 Clarity Diamond
Located in บางรัก, TH
It often has a more antique feel compared to other modern cuts, making it a popular choice for engagement rings and heirloom pieces. Its versatile shape suits various settings, from ...
Diamond
GIA Certified 1.00 Carat Fancy Light Yellow SI2 Clarity Diamond
Located in บางรัก, TH
Whether it's for an engagement ring, heirloom piece, or investment, a GIA Certified diamond ensures you're purchasing a top tier diamond that will maintain its beauty for generations.
Diamond
GIA Certified 1.41 Carat Fancy Brown Pink I2 Clarity Diamond
Located in บางรัก, TH
Whether you're purchasing for an engagement ring or an heirloom piece, a GIA Certified diamond ensures that you're investing in a genuine, high quality diamond that will stand the te...
Diamond
$384Sale Price|20% Off
12.45 Carat Natural Loose Swiss Blue Topaz Emerald Cut Madagascar's Gemstone
Located in Bangkok, TH
Its substantial carat weight and refined cut make it a perfect choice for crafting statement jewelry pieces, such as a bold ring, pendant, or heirloom creation. Celebrated for its du...
Topaz, Blue Topaz
38.92-Carat Marquise Ethiopian Opal – A Rare Collectible Gem by Merkaba Jewelry
By Merkaba
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Whether you envision this opal as a statement ring, an heirloom-quality pendant, or another custom design, our Design Your Dream service ensures that your jewelry will be as unique a...
Opal, 18k Gold, Rose Gold, White Gold, Yellow Gold, Platinum
Platinum Emerald Cut Diamond 7.14 Carat Oval Australian Black Opal Necklace
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The diamonds just give off the true brilliance of the Opal. The ring is quite heavy weighing at 10.9 grams. This ring is a heirloom piece that will be passed down from generation to ...
Diamond, Opal, Black Opal, Platinum
Antique and vintage rings have long held a special place in the hearts of fine jewelry lovers all over the world.
No matter their origin or specific characteristics, rings are timeless, versatile accessories. They’ve carried deep meaning since at least the Middle Ages, when diamond rings symbolized strength and other kinds of rings were worn to signify romantic feelings or to denote an affiliation with a religious order. Rings have also forever been emblematic of eternity.
Over time, rings have frequently taken the form of serpents, which have long been associated with eternal life, health and renewal. Italian luxury jewelry house Bulgari has become famous for its widely loved Serpenti motif, for example, and its Serpenti ring, like the other accessories in the collection, began as an homage to jewelry of the Roman and Hellenistic eras. The serpent is now a popular motif in fine jewelry. Jewelry devotees have long pined for rings adorned with reptiles, thanks to antique Victorian rings — well, specifically, Queen Victoria’s illustrious engagement ring, which took the form of a gold snake set with rubies, diamonds and an emerald (her birthstone). Designs for Victorian-era engagement rings often featured repoussé work and chasing, in which patterns are hammered into the metal.
Engagement rings, which are reliably intimidating to shop for, are still widely recognized as symbols of love and commitment. On 1stDibs, a range of buying guides can be found for those in the market for antique engagement rings, vintage engagement rings or Art Deco engagement rings.
The most collectible antique engagement rings and vintage engagement rings are those from the Victorian, Edwardian and Art Deco eras. Named for the monarchies of the four King Georges, who in succession ruled England starting in 1714 (plus King William’s reign), antique Georgian rings, be they engagement rings or otherwise, are also coveted by collectors. Pearls, along with colored gemstones like garnets, rubies and sapphires, were widely used in Georgian jewelry. The late-1700s paste jewelry was a predecessor to what we now call fashion or costume jewelry.
The Art Nouveau movement (1880–1910) brought with it rings inspired by the natural world. Antique Art Nouveau rings might feature depictions of winged insects and fauna as well as women, who were simultaneously eroticized and romanticized, frequently with long flowing hair. Art Deco jewelry, on the other hand, which originated during the 1920s and ’30s, is by and large “white jewelry.” White metals, primarily platinum, were favored over yellow gold in the design of antique Art Deco rings and other accessories as well as geometric motifs, with women drawn to the era’s dazzling cocktail rings in particular.
Whether you’re hunting down a chunky classic for a Prohibition-themed cocktail party or seeking a clean contemporary design to complement your casual ensemble, find an exquisite collection of antique, new and vintage rings on 1stDibs.
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