Wedding Band Carved from Moss-on-Snow Jade

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Wedding Band Carved from Moss-on-Snow Jade

About the Item

A pristine, never worn band of finely colored and translucent green makes for a most strikingly unique, beautiful, and durable wedding band. Or un-wedding band. Or stack ring. Or just the ring you buy yourself because you require a bump of happiness. However, I have always envisioned this along with one of the other two carved jade bands I am listing as being Could you really wear a wedding band carved from Jadeite jade every day? Just like an ordinary gold wedding band? To answer that question, I must first introduce you to Mr. Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs, a German mineralogist who picked-up where the ancient Greeks and Romans left off with respect to classifying minerals based on their relative hardness. A diamond could scratch everything but nothing could scratch a diamond, so diamond would represent "10" on what is today known as Mohs scale of mineral hardness or just the Mohs scale for short. Talc is a clay mineral that every other mineral can scratch so it's a "1." Gold is a 2.5 and jadeite jade is between a 6.5 and 7. So the jade ring would be significantly less prone to being scratched. Which explains why the nearly century-old carved jadeite saddle ring I have in my store shows no evidence of scratching or even wear on the rear of the band. I have three carved jade wedding bands (or stack rings or ring rings) in my store at the moment: this one is bright white with a patch of vivid emerald green. This coloring is known as "moss on snow." This 5mm-thick band has an inner diameter of 17mm. It is quite close to a size 6 ½ and could only be made smaller by employing the services of a skilled jeweler to craft a gold (or whatever precious metal you choose) living for the interior. It weighs a scant 2.77 grams, which means that once it's on your finger, you don't feel it. Making this the ideal ring for somebody who generally finds jewelry uncomfortable. This ring ships with a certificate from Stone Group Labs stating that the jadeite is from Burma (Myanmar) and is natural and untreated.

Stone:
Jade
Weight:
2.77 g
Style:
Artisan
Place of Origin:
China
Period:
Late 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1980s
Condition:
Seller Location:
Southbury, CT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU158919493272