Art Deco Moonstone Men's Ring, Circa 1925

This midcentury men's diamond ring represents the quintessential design aesthetic for a man's diamond solitaire, circa 1960s. How many Walter Cronkite broadcasts have flashed across ...

A rare aluminum and diamind stanhope ring. A "Stanhope lens" is a tiny single-lens microscope invented in the late 18th century by Eton-educated Charles Stanhope, the 3rd Earl Stanhope. The unique construction of the lens requires that the object to be magnified be near or in direct contact with the lens. Photography, which had been invented several decades prior to the Stanhope lens, was ever-evolving, and something called "microphotographs" became a thing in the mid-1800s. These tiny photographs could not be seen without a microscope. The Victorians, dressed as they were in multiple layers of social decorum, etiquette, and clothing, loved microphotographs because they were cunning, and the subject matter could be naughty —filthy naughty, even— yet remain invisible to anyone without a microscope. The Stanhope lens came along at just the right time and was eagerly adopted; incorporated into everything from crucifixes to sewing scissors. And, of course, set into rings. Stanhope rings...

Art Deco flanked solitaire diamond ring. Set to centre with a single rectangular emerald-cut diamond, H colour, VVS1 clarity with an approximate weig...

Architectural platinum and diamond Art-Déco ring dating circa 1925. Art-Déco ring of open-work, geometric design, centering upon 1 old European cut diamond of circa 1.4 carats, in mille-grain setting, flanked by two circular- and two single-cut diamonds. This charming ring is crafted in platinum. Old European cut center diamond of circa 1.4 ct, L - SI2 smaller diamonds totalling circa 0.24 ct...