Vintage Insects Trapped in Amber Modernist Ring

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A specimen! Tiny prehistoric insects - mosquitos? - are trapped forever in golden amber. The jeweler saw the beauty in this frozen moment in time and cut the slab into a modernist triangle. The ring's band is marked "333" which is a rare one for us - it means 8k gold. This standard exists only in Germany and a few Balkan states, and that tracks:  Germany and the Balkans are the world's most famous source of all this Jurassic park amber.

MATERIALS: 8k gold (marked 333), amber specimen with fossilized insects

AGE: c. 1970

CONDITION: Very good

SIZE: 8, resizing not recommended; 5/8" x 1/2" head, 3/8" shank