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Made after you order.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"amethyst-black-rhodium-ring","title":"Night Amethyst — Black Rhodium Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor nine hundred years it was the stone you wore to be answerable.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmethyst means \"not drunken\". \u003cem\u003eA-methystos.\u003c\/em\u003e The Greeks cut wine cups from it and believed you could drink all night and keep your head, and the belief was so durable that it survived the Roman empire, the fall of Rome and the arrival of Christianity without anybody seriously checking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe church kept it and changed what the sobriety was for. From the early middle ages, an amethyst was set in the ring a bishop wore, and it was kissed. Not a stone of pleasure denied — a stone of being clear-headed because people were relying on you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor nine hundred years it was the stone you wore to be answerable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it was expensive. Until the 1700s amethyst sat with ruby, emerald and sapphire in the top rank of precious stones, priced accordingly, worn by people who could prove they mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Brazil. Enormous deposits found in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and within a generation the price collapsed. The same stone, unchanged in every physical respect, went from cardinal's ring to something a schoolgirl could be given.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI think about that more than is probably healthy. Nothing about the stone moved. Only how many of them there were.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI plated this one in black rhodium — dark metal, so the purple has to work for its attention — with gold on the leaves. It is the piece that keeps the first collection from being sweet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver base, black rhodium and gold plating. Plating on a heavily-worn ring will thin at the contact points over years; that is what plating does, and a jeweller can redo it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosted to you tracked — 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural amethyst — 4×6 mm oval, 3×5 mm and 3×3 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNano emerald-green accent stones — laboratory-grown, not mined emerald\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver, black rhodium and gold plated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorn for centuries to keep a clear head. Some people feel something. Some don't. 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It was drawn as competence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich is worth remembering, because the snake in the twelve signs has spent a long time being handed other people's baggage — mostly imported, mostly not Chinese. In the cycle itself the snake is not treacherous. It is the animal that gets out of its own skin on a schedule and keeps going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe oldest maker in Chinese myth is drawn from the waist down as a snake.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSi, the sixth earthly branch, is the double hour from nine until eleven in the morning. Late enough that the day has a shape. Early enough to change it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe snake here is gold and coiled along a silver branch, and I left the branch pale on purpose so the two metals read as two different materials rather than one decorated one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opal sits above in a rayed gold mount. Opal has had a strange run in Europe — in 1829 Walter Scott published a novel in which a woman wearing one dies, and the market for opals across the continent is said to have collapsed on the strength of a plot device. It took decades to recover. A stone's reputation is not the same thing as a stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver with gold plating on the snake, the grass and the mount. 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Every other piece on this site names its stone, and this one will too the moment we have it in writing rather than in a photograph. Ask us and we will tell you exactly where that stands.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49045092303018,"sku":"ASI8-NAT-040","price":169.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/40-1.jpg?v=1786612740"},{"product_id":"garnet-burning-heart-ring","title":"Burning Heart — Garnet Heart Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003eA red garnet held inside a flame — or a heart, depending on where you stop looking. The pavé runs up one side in red, a gold leaf folds over the top, and the band twists away like a burnt stem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGarnet was the stone travellers carried in the medieval world: it was said to hold a light of its own in the dark. 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