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The collection
Our vintage and antique rings come out of European estates, families and auction rooms, and every one of them is a single piece. You will find Georgian and Victorian goldwork, Edwardian platinum filigree, Art Deco geometry in calibre-cut sapphire and onyx, heavy Retro cocktail rings and signed mid-century work, alongside estate rings that are simply excellent modern fine jewelry with a previous owner.
151 pieces
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$3,500
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$3,950$5,315
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$7,000
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$5,250
One of a kind14K · Ruby
$4,050
One of a kind18K · Ruby
$4,200
One of a kind12K · Ruby
$2,750
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$11,000
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$3,000
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$3,600
One of a kindDiamond
$5,500$6,399
One of a kind18K · Ruby
$4,750
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$5,500
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$5,000
One of a kind14K · Ruby
$3,950
One of a kind14K
$4,200$5,252
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$5,500
One of a kind18K · Citrine
$3,800
One of a kind18K · Sapphire
$4,000
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$3,450$4,025
One of a kind20K
$2,850
One of a kindDiamond
$10,500
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$5,750
One of a kindRuby
$11,250
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$8,250
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$3,200
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$9,500
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$4,000
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$3,100
One of a kind18K
$11,500
One of a kind14K
$4,350
One of a kind18K · Ruby
$3,150
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$10,250
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$4,650
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$3,150
One of a kindPlatinum 950 · Sapphire
$8,500
One of a kind12K · Diamond
$3,550
One of a kind14K · Sapphire
$3,200
One of a kind14K
$2,950
One of a kind18K · Ruby
$4,200
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$10,750
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$7,750
One of a kind18K
$3,650
One of a kind18K · Diamond
$4,600
One of a kind14K
$2,850
One of a kind14K · Diamond
$6,750
One of a kind14K · Ruby
$4,350
One of a kind14K · Carnelian
$2,950
Looking for something you saw earlier? Browse our archive of recently sold vintage jewelry to see the kind of pieces that pass through our hands.
What makes an antique ring different from a new one is the hand behind it. Old mine, old European and rose cuts were cut for candlelight, so they flash broadly rather than sparkle finely. Settings were built up by a goldsmith rather than cast, and the gold — often 14K, 18K, 22K or platinum — carries assay marks that place the ring in a country and a decade.
Every ring passes our jewelry team before it is listed. Our estate buyer records where it came from, our jewelry team checks the shank, claws and earlier repairs, and our gemologist, a GIA Graduate Gemologist (GG), assesses the stones and any treatment under magnification. Anything we cannot establish is left blank rather than guessed. Rings are shown in US sizes. Our own goldsmiths in the Netherlands carry out ring resizing. A goldsmith first examines your ring and explains honestly what can be done. Resizing is a paid service, with an individual quote for your approval before any work begins. What is possible and the cost depend on the piece. Each one ships free and fully insured with import duties included.
Personal service
Three ways to go further, all of them with a person on the other side.
One of our jewelers takes any piece to daylight and shows you the hallmark, the setting and any wear, live and in your own time zone.
Book a viewingOur buyers work with European estates and auction houses regularly. Describe the piece and we write to you when something right comes in.
We will source itAtelier is our own line of newly made jewelry in vintage style, made for us by a specialized workshop in Thailand. It is new, not antique.
Explore AtelierFilter by the era recorded for the ring, not by how it looks to us: Georgian, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Edwardian, Art Deco, Retro and mid-century. Where an era cannot be established from the marks, the construction and the cutting, the ring is listed without one.
Yellow, white and rose gold in 9K to 22K, platinum and silver, set with diamond, sapphire, ruby, emerald, opal, pearl and garnet. Carat weights appear only where they are recorded or measured; we never estimate a weight to make a listing look better.
Hand cutting, hand piercing and millegrain done with a wheel rather than a mold. Period cuts keep their open culets and slightly irregular facets. That irregularity is a mark of age, not a fault, and we never recut a stone to make an old ring look new.
Our own goldsmiths in the Netherlands carry out ring resizing. A goldsmith first examines your ring and explains honestly what can be done. Resizing is a paid service, with an individual quote for your approval before any work begins. What is possible and the cost depend on the piece.
Free insured shipping to the US, import duties included in the price, 30 days to return with free insured return shipping, and a valuation & authenticity report prepared by our own gemologist on higher-value pieces. A Dutch family jewelry house since 1973.
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About this category
Antique, vintage and estate rings bought from European families, checked by our jewelry team and sized for American fingers.
A vintage ring was made to be worn, usually by hand, and it carries the marks of the workshop that made it. Rings are the most personal thing we sell and the hardest to buy from a distance, which is why every ring page carries a full dossier: metal and standard, stone weights where they are recorded, hallmarks, condition, earlier repairs and the work our jewelry team carried out. Anything we cannot establish is left blank rather than filled in.
A ring passes three hands before it is listed. Our estate buyer records where it came from. Our jewelry team opens up the setting, checks the shank, the claws and any earlier repair, and tests the metal. Our gemologist looks at the stones under magnification, judges the cut against the period the ring appears to come from, and identifies treatments and replacements. Where Dutch law requires it, the metal is hallmarked by a recognized Dutch assay office.
In the trade, antique means roughly a hundred years old or more, so Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian and early Art Deco work. Vintage covers the decades after that, and estate simply means previously owned, whatever its age. Atelier is our own line of newly made jewelry in vintage style, made for us by a specialized workshop in Thailand. It is new, not antique.
Georgian rings are hand-cut and rare. Victorian rings run from mourning jewelry to gypsy-set gemstones. Edwardian work is platinum, pierced and light. Art Deco is geometric and calibre-cut. Retro and mid-century rings are heavier gold with bold color. Each era filter on this page draws on the era recorded for the piece, not on how the ring looks to us.
Old mine, old European, rose and transitional cuts were cut by hand for candlelight and early electric light. They return broad, soft flashes rather than the fine sparkle of a modern brilliant, and they are usually a little less regular. A period cut is a mark of age, not a defect, and we never recut a stone to make it look modern.
Ring sizes are shown in US, EU and UK when recorded. Our own goldsmiths in the Netherlands carry out ring resizing. A goldsmith first examines your ring and explains honestly what can be done. Resizing is a paid service, with an individual quote for your approval before any work begins. What is possible and the cost depend on the piece.
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