Welo Opal Sterling Silver Celtic Ring
A stunning natural Welo Opal with beautiful 'aurora' colour play. You will receive the beautiful sterling silver ring with celtic design in the photos.
This stunning ring can cleverly span ring sizes P-T (UK) or 7¾- 9¾ (US) without compromising the design concept too much. Opal measures approximately 8x5x4mm.
RESIZING ADJUSTABLE RINGS
It is quite easy to change the size of the ring yourself as long as you go slowly and are careful, manipulating the inner area of the band with warm fingers, rather than pulling at the end sections – this will help keep a round shape too. This ring will span quite a few sizes without compromising the original design concept. Once set, it is advisable not to resize again, as silver is quite soft and can become brittle and snap if bent too frequently.
Our Ethiopian Opals are sourced from the area of Welo, a new field only worked in the last few years. Anthropologists, however, have reported that mankind used this opal to make tools in around 4,000 years BC, which means that Africa mined opals even before Australia! Very new on the modern market, these opals are so affordable when you consider how fiery the stones are. Compared to Australian opals, they are a lot softer, so care should be taken. The high degree of transparency in Ethiopian opal means the colours are evenly spread through the entire gem with brilliant flashes of rainbow colours. In fact, the number of colors in a single piece is only rarely seen in Australian material!
