Vintage Gold Serpent Ring
Striking vintage snake ring dating from the 1980s. With cross-hatched scales and smouldering blood-red garnet eyes, he appears to be slithering up and around the finger when worn. Crafted in 9 carat yellow gold with English hallmarks inside the band.
The serpent is one of the oldest and most widely used mythological symbols, featuring prominently in virtually every culture we know of stretching far back into prehistory. To the Victorians, it represented eternal love, Queen Victoria herself famously received a snake ring with emerald eyes from her beloved Albert.
The snake motif has meant many things - both good and bad - to many different peoples: medicine and healing, poison and death, fertility and rebirth, transformation and immortality, and as fierce guardians of temples, shrines, and other sacred spaces. Anthropologist Lynne Isbell has argued that the snake as a manifestation of death, because of our evolutionary history as primates, is hard-wired into our subconscious - at the very core of our being.
Era: Vintage, 1989
Ring size: O 1/2 or 7.5 US. Resizeable for £55
Width at head: 2.7cm
Stones: Garnet, variety almandine-pyrope
Hallmarks: English, Birmingham, 9ct Gold, 1989
Condition: Great vintage condition
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[Last updated: August 29th, 2025]
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Condition
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