Citrine & Ruby Sterling Silver Vermeil Ring Size 7.5

Citrine & Ruby Sterling Silver Vermeil Ring Size 7.5 Mineral: Citrine and Ruby Origin: Jaipur, India Color: Yellow and Red Treatment: Heat Treated Material: Sterling Silver (925) with 2.5 micron Gold Plating  Size: 7.5 Approximate Top Dimensions: 1.5cm x 1.3cm x 0.5cm Approximate Band Dimensions: 0.7cm to 0.3cm Weight: 6g   10% of this purchase will be donated to The Wildlife Protection Society Of India (WPSI)   People have used quartz in jewelry for thousands of years. Egyptians gathered ornately striped agates from the shore and used them as talismans, the ancient Greeks carved rock crystal ornaments that glistened like permafrost, and the hands of Roman pontiffs bore rings set with huge purple amethysts. Natural citrine is rare, and today most citrine quartz is the result of heat treatment of amethyst quartz. Even so, gems from the Victorian era have surfaced, and it’s not hard to imagine that citrine was treasured even in earlier times.    In the first century AD, the Roman sch