Gold & Carnelian Love Birds Ring

A charming 14ct58.5% pure gold (or 585 parts pure gold to 415 parts other metals) gold ring set with a carnelian​A translucent red variety of chalcedony which in its turn is a form of cryptocrystalline quartz. ​Carnelian has​ been known and used since antiquity when it was sourced from the surfaces of the Egyptian and Arabian deserts. The ​most prized carnelian has a true blood-red color. with an intaglioAn engraved stone, the opposite of a cameo, with a recessed design cut below the surface of the stone. Intaglio designs are common for signet rings and fob seals. of two love birds on a fence under a tree and the phrase “Il Les Unit” (“It unites”). The shankThe circle of metal that attaches to the decorative part of a ring and encircles the finger. is difficult to date but the intaglio is quite early, circa 1820.