Vintage diamond and ruby cluster ring. Set to centre with a round old cut diamond in an open back claw setting with a weight of 0.50 carats, flanked by four round old cut diamonds in open back grain settings with a combined weight of 0.40 carats, further set with ten round old single cut diamonds in open back grain settings with a combined weight of 0.15 carats, and four curving rows of natural unenhanced calibre rubies in open back millegrain channel settings with an approximate combined weight of 0.20 carats. The total approximate diamond weight is 1.05 carats, to an elegant tapered form with an openwork finger gallery and intricate pierced backholing, flanked by trumpeted shoulders to a solid D-shape shank. Marked palladium, numbered '032822', circa 1940.
