Our clients ask regularly about our ring tags or stock numbers and what the numbers and letters mean, if anything. The wholesale clients ask more than the retail due to some contradicting letters between the invoice they recieve and the tags on some of the rings. So today, I will explain the different letters in the stock numbers and tags for our merchandise which may make shopping a little easier here at Shavonne.com.

Almost all of our rings and our other items produced at the factory carry this style of stock number and product tag, 04506ZJH. The numbers are for the different styles regardless of the base metal, plating metal, and stone color. So if you searched for 04506 in the “Find a Ring” search then you would see all variations of that one ring style. Now the confusing part is probably the ending letters. In the 04506ZJH example, the Z stands for Cubic Zirconia, the J stands for Black, and the H stands for Rhodium. Now this is our online stock number but on the actual ring tags, you would see an additional letter before the Z, 04506BZJH. The B stands for brass/bronze which is our jeweler’s base metal. So on our tags you have Base metal, Stone type, Stone color, and Plating metal. The online stock number drops off the first letter.

Possible Letters:
Base Metal:

• B – brass/bronze
• S – sterling silver

Stone Type:

• Z – cubic zirconia
• C – austrian crystal
• N – no stones

Stone Colors:

• A – amethyst
• B – tropical teal
• BA – brazilian blue
• C – clear
• E – emerald
• G – garnet
• I – multiple colors
• J – black
• K – tanzanite
• L – olivine
• M – montana blue
• N – no stones
• O – peridot
• P – sapphire
• Q – aquamarine
• R – pink
• T – topaz
• U – ruby
• V – cognac/champagne
• W – alexandrite

Plating Metal:

• H – rhodium
• B – 14k gold
• A – both gold and silver plated
• N – rhodium plated over sterling silver (this is for the online stock number)
• N – sterling silver not plated (this is for the ring tag)

As you may notice there are two Ns in the Plating metal category. What that means is that if you see an N at the end of the stock number on the website then it is sterling silver base metal with Rhodium plating unless otherwise noted. If the N is at the end of the number on the actual item tag then it is sterling silver base metal without any plating. We normally plate all of our sterling silver with rhodium because sterling tarnishes very quickly otherwise and the look can be preserved with the rhodium plating.

I know this does not cover all of our fashion jewelry but it does cover almost every ring, many bracelets, and some earrings and necklaces. The replica watches use a varied system since they are produced by different manufacturers and we just assign them a stock number with a color code to distinguish between the different face colors and platings.

That covers our tagging and stock numbering system for a majority of our items. I hope that answered a lot of your questions and if you have some more regarding the tags or stock numbers then feel free to post comments.