This silver ring is by Walter Kramer for the German company Georg Kramer.
In the centre is an oblong cabochon cut piece of bright orange amber rubover set above the wide band.
On each side of the centre setting is an applied silver fish above engraved shoulders all above a tapering lightly planished silver shank.
The ring is marked '835' for silver and with the model number '33' and with Georg Kramer's mark, a 'GK' in an inverted shield cartouche.
This ring dates to the late 1930s and was designed by Walter Kramer as part of his range of 'fish' jewellery.
Approximate dimensions:
Ring size: Y.5 (UK) - 12.5 (US)
Weight: 0.6oz - 16gms
Georg Kramer started his company in 1771 in Ribnitz Damgarten Germany.
His descendent Walter Kramer took over in 1932 and began to produce his 'fish' jewellery which was often decorated with amber and which he named "Fischland' after the area with the same name near Ribnitz.
In 1939 he renamed the company Fischland GmbH and also produced modernist jewellery. The jewellery continued to use the mark 'GK' in a shield together with a model number.
In 1947 the company was expropriated by the USSR who had occupied the area after the end of World War II. Walter Kramer fled to Lubeck-Rostock where he continued to make jewellery.
In 1959 he successfully won his patent action against the expropriated company which had continued to operate under the name of 'VEB Fischland-Scmuck' and which then had to change its name.
Walter Kramer died in 1990.
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