Carried for

Forest Trace — Moss Agate Pear Ring Set

History and folklore, offered as such.

Moss agate is not moss. The green threads inside it are mineral inclusions — usually iron or manganese — that grew through the silica while it was forming. They only look like plants.

£159.00~~£179.00~~

Made after you order it · up to 20 days · 925 sterling silver

Ring size

Not sure of your size? Measure it in two minutes

Two minutes with a strip of paper now saves three weeks later. Everything is made after you order, so a size change afterwards means starting again.

1. Cut a strip of paper about 5 mm wide.

2. Wrap it round the base of the finger — snug, but it should pass the knuckle with a little resistance.

3. Mark the overlap, lay it flat, measure in millimetres. Find that number in the circumference column below.

Ring size	Circumference	Inside ø	UK	EU
4.5	48.0 mm	15.3 mm	J	48
5	49.3 mm	15.7 mm	K	49
5.5	50.6 mm	16.1 mm	L	50
6	51.9 mm	16.5 mm	M	52
6.5	53.1 mm	16.9 mm	N	53
7	54.4 mm	17.3 mm	O	54
7.5	55.7 mm	17.7 mm	P	56
8	57.0 mm	18.1 mm	Q	57
8.5	58.3 mm	18.5 mm	R	58
9	59.5 mm	18.9 mm	S	60
9.5	60.8 mm	19.4 mm	T	61
10	62.1 mm	19.8 mm	U	62

Measure in the evening. Fingers are largest at the end of the day. Measuring at 8am in January is the single most common reason a ring turns out tight.
Between two sizes? Take the larger. A ring you cannot get off is a worse problem than one that turns.
Wide bands run small. 6 mm or wider, go up half a size.
Adjustable pieces need no size at all — they open a little and hold.

Not sure? Email your measurement to asi8@gmail.com and we will tell you which number to choose. We would far rather spend five minutes on that than remake a ring.

The millimetres are the inside circumference of the band. Between two sizes, take the larger.

Add the gift box Linen-lined, wax sealed, with the stone card set into the lid. +£25

01 A stone is chosen for your order by hand, held to the light.
02 It is set in solid silver and cut to your size, finished, and checked.
03 It rests, and is wrapped by hand with its card — the stone, and the date it was finished.
04 Dispatched with tracking. Up to twenty days.

Free delivery, no minimum
Tracked worldwide
14-day returns

The story

Which is why no two of these rings are the same. A pear-cut stone sits above a crown of marquise-cut clear stones; the two bands stack into one shape.

Materials

Natural moss agate, pear cut
Marquise and round accent stones
Solid 925 sterling silver with a rose gold-tone plated finish
Two-piece stacking set

Made to order. Because the inclusions are natural, the pattern in your stone will not match the photograph exactly — that is the point of the stone.

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Seen closer

Forest Trace — Moss Agate Pear Ring Set

Every frame is the piece itself, photographed as it is — agate, set in solid sterling silver.

01 Moss agate pear ring set worn on the hand

02 Moss agate pear ring set in rose gold-tone sterling silver

03 Moss agate ring set, both bands separated

04 Forest Trace moss agate pear ring set worn on the hand

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What it has been carried for

Agate

Before it was jewellery it was administration.

01
The one everybody knows
Steadiness

Worn for holding your ground. The banding helps the idea along - layer on layer, laid down one at a time, none of it in a hurry.
Long European tradition
02
Less known
Proof

In Mesopotamia it was carved into cylinder seals and rolled across wet clay to sign a contract. Rome put it into signet rings. When a Roman pressed agate into wax the point was not decoration - the point was that it could not be faked.
Mesopotamian and Roman practice
03
Almost nobody knows
A river that ran out

Theophrastus - Aristotle’s student - recorded a banded stone being pulled from the Achates in Sicily around 300 BC, and named it after the river. The river is now the Dirillo and has almost none left. The name outlived the supply by two thousand three hundred years.
Theophrastus, On Stones, c. 300 BC

All of the above is history and folklore, written down because it is real and it is interesting. It is not a claim about what the stone will do. Some people feel something. Some don’t. More in The Codex

Before you decide

Everything we can tell you

01
The stone

Agate. What we know about the material in this piece is written on the page above, in the measurements we were given. Where a stone is lab-grown or treated we say so by name. We never call a treated stone natural, and we never use the phrase “semi-precious”.
Read what it has been carried for →
02
The metal

Solid 925 sterling silver. This design carries a plated finish over that silver. Plating is a surface, and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not. We never plate base metal, and we never describe plating as solid gold.
How to keep it →
03
Made after you order

Nothing here sits in a warehouse. Work begins when the order does, and the piece takes up to 20 days before it ships. Your ring size is cut at that point, which is why we ask for it at checkout.
Making & delivery →
04
Size & fit

Ring sizes run 4.5 to 10 (UK J to U). Measure warm, at the end of the day, and take the reading three times.
How to measure at home →