"ELIGIBLE" RINGS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 4

"ELIGIBLE" RINGS

The suggestion made in a letter to the London "Daily Mail" in which a correspondent urged the introduction of a special type of wedding ring tor wear by widows, with black to denote that the marriage bond had been broken, is regarded in the Birmingham jewellery trade as excellent and useful. Nothing of the kind is on the market, but one firm has now made a ring of the kind to order, and several inquiries have been receiveu since the letter appeared The special ring was of gold, with n central groove into which was run a band of black enamel This achieved the desired object without obscuring the value of the ring, as would be done with an all-black ring," said a member of tho firm to a "Daily Mail" reporter. He added: "A ring of this kind would bo sold at approximately the same price as the standard gold article. If this became fashionable, perhaps another rhi" might be made with a red band for°divmeed persons. These would be helpful indications of 'eligibility." At present twenty-two different kinds of wedding rings are made, including eleven different shapes of the plain gold variety.