Need help with identifying this silver diamond ring...

  I am still lacking a digital camera to replace the one my fiance' ran over with the lawnmower and have only been able to use my cell phone and microscope devices.  I have done my best to get the three microscope pics to look the best that I can but the scopes camera came with the scope as a package deal and is obviously very cheap.

  The two pics of the ring do not do the stone justice.  Comparing to the known diamond that she already sports tells me that the stone is not cheap.  It is most likely over five carrots and does not have a single mark on the stone that I could find.  This seems important to me since the ring was found in gravel next to a park road.  The band itself is full of small marks so I deduce that it could have been in this tough environment for some time without any damage to the stone.  I have painstakingly cleaned this piece and studied it's surfaces under a cheap jeweler's glass that I have had for a while.  

  I am really not expecting this to be any great find of more than a few hundred dollars of worth but I am having some fun trying to figure it out.  Things like this make going thru all of that trash worth wild on my hunts.

  I would certainly love to know a little about this piece before bringing it to the local jeweler.  It is definitely a solid silver band with the ".925" silver mark on the inside.

  The next mark is something that I am glad to have the microscope for.  It is a circle with what appears to be two apostrophes rotated 90 degrees.  

  The third mark is simply a bold letter M inside two vertical bars.


  So far, I am going with the ".925" silver grading mark indicating that this piece is American and less than one hundred years old.  The "/M/" however, could be a date stamp or maker's mark.  It could even be descriptive of the stone itself.

  The round symbol is the biggie to me.  Identifying the stone is my biggest goal before taking it to the jeweler.  I ha ve already agreed to let her keep it if it appraised less than $1500 U.S.  If it reaches roughly $2000 then we split the cash and she get's herself some jewelry with her thousand and I get myself that Minelab or Whites unit that will get me those few inches deeper on my hunts.

  Thanx to anyone in advance for any help here.  


  ALSO:   The pic of the symbol is horizontally inverted due to the nature of the microscope camera.  I am not sure that it matters though.  I had edited the other two pics to compensate but forgot to edit that one.

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he he he please do burst my bubble bud.  I know that it is reaching to believe this to be anything but what it looks to be. 

  Honestly, I didn't think that it would be real silver until I saw the .925 so I plan to just keep up hope until the bubble finally pops.

  It is a very pretty rock though.  If it only serves to add to the little lady'd collecting then my hobby has still done well.  The money figures that I included in the original post are pretty much figures that will hold true to anything that I find due to the cost of an upgrade of equip.  I am not holding my breath for a payday from this find.

  Since you have a shop perhaps you can fill me in on getting an appraisal though....

  Can a jeweler easily tell the type of stone?

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  Thanx.  I had an ole gal at a pawn shop to hit my fiance's ring with a laser once that showed it to be real.  I guess that I might get back to her shop and see what she says.
 
  Other than that, there is a jeweler that people have been mentioning for an appraisal that I will stop by.  I just can't seem to stop searching for those markings though.  I will figure out that symbol sooner or later.

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Hi TriDitty

The stone in your ring is more than likely a white sapphire like GD and Seldom said I have never seen a diamond in a silver ring let alone a 5ct stone

Regards Xavier

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Diamond inclusions are normally of two types. There are black, carbon artifacts left behind during the diamond formation and there are fractures that occur during the cooling process. Diamonds require high pressure and heat to form. The cracks and fractures look like a small slice of a rainbow floating inside the diamond. I may be wrong, but I have never heard of a cloudy inclusion in a diamond. It may be a really nice chunk of quartz or a Herkimer diamond.

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I hope I am wrong, though. Hurry up down to a jeweler and let us all know. Seriously. Go on. Get out of here and come back with the news.

What are you still doing here reading this?

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