Ruby Jewelry

Known as the July birthstone, ruby is said to bring wearers of Ruby Jewelry wisdom, happiness and health, and good luck to gamblers and lovers. Valued for their rarity, durability and beauty, rubies were mounted in Antique Jewelry and Vintage Jewelry and collected by ardent lovers of a rare stone that rates a 9 on Moh’s scale of hardness. Featuring in Rose Gold Retro Jewelry and later in Vintage Platinum Jewelry, rubies takes their red color from chromic and titanium oxide and their yellow from ferric oxide. Mounted in Art Deco Jewelry in corundum combinations, this term is used to refer to the crystal form of aluminum oxide, popular in precious gem-set Edwardian Jewelry.