Pre-WW2 14k Prosthetic Eye Ring 5 weighing in at a

5 weighing in at a heavy 11

14k/20”/4mm/Just under 22g by Michael Anthony

30CTW) sitting side by side in a deep valley cutout around  the big center garen’t while giving a sweeping tornado look on the sides of this ring

585 with a European makers mark

Measuring 18” by 10mm wide

Pre-WW2 14k Prosthetic Eye Ring 5 weighing in at aToday most ocularists manufacture prosthetic eyes out of medical grade acrylic plastic but before the onset of WW2 in the beginning of the 1940s this process was made using glass. Early glass has small abrasions, impurities, and most importantly tiny air bubbles. If you look closely (4th picture) you can see these small air bubbles in the glass eye. During the Victorian to art nouveau period (mid 1800s 1920s) mourning jewelry was a very common