A N T I Q U E // persevering serpents / 9k rose gold and diamond coiled double serpent wide band / size 9 to 10

well well well. this double snake ring offers two serpent heads in an embrace at the front of a band stylized to appear as three coils. this ring is full of stories and resilience and has earned being a wearable ode to perseverance and multiple chances the hallmarks date this piece to Chester 1919, but there's evidence of a re-banding, so it may be that the serpents date to an earlier era and 1919 was a re-banding. hard to know, really, but this piece has all of the wear and heft you'd want to see in an antique snake ring  when recently sourced it was missing the stones and the settings had been filled in with gold, which wasn't aging well as the solder seams revealed themselves over time. this piece is worthy of TLC, so it recently had a refresh with new diamond stones solid antique 9k rose gold with new natural diamonds M E A S U R E M E N T S  measures size 10 on the mandrel, but because of its width it will likely fit much smaller, and may fit more like a size 9 ~12mm north to sout