familystone
Shiny_Rock
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- Mar 20, 2006
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Hi, this is my first post on pricescope however I have been reading as much as I could from the site in the past few weeks. It has been a great help in attempting to identify my diamond that I am going to be using for an engagement ring. Here is a small story on the hisrory of the ring: It was a stone that was originally in either my great grandmothers earing or great-great grandmothers. Either way the stone was passed down to me from my mother as it was given to her by my father who passed away 5 years ago. I am still not positve if it is an old mine cut or an old european but either way I am extremely happy to keep the stone in the family and pass it on to my hopefully soon bride to be. The stone was lost once by my mother during her marriage but was found in the fireplace ashes when she next went to clean the fireplace. (luckily no fire damage though) After my father''s death she "put the ring away somewhere safe" and was unable to relocated for about two plus years. My father passed away around christmass and coincedently my mother was moving from the home they lived in for over 25 years right around last christmass. While in the process of packing up the house to move back to where her brothers and sisters live she found the ring on the top of a kitchen cabinet wrapped up in a paper towl. (ya interesting place for "safekeeping" but. . . thats my mom) Anyways, enough history and on to my question:
I am now attempting to find a platnum smith in the NY/NJ area that can custom make a ring design as I want the setting to be as unique as the diamond. I was thinking of combining the more modern style channel settings and possibley a trellis type prong to hold the stone with a somehwat edwardian style band however less ornate with than the old-style etchings. The ring now is in a simple cathedrial setting with white gold prongs and a yellow gold band. Between the wedding band and the ER I have an additional 13 10 point stones that I can Incorperate into the new setting(s)
I was hoping for some suggestions as to a platnium smith in the area that I could speak with in person that could help me design the ring. My buget is around 2,000 dollars to work with as I had started to save for a ring before my mom approached me with the suggestion on using her ring to carry on the family tradition.
I am now attempting to find a platnum smith in the NY/NJ area that can custom make a ring design as I want the setting to be as unique as the diamond. I was thinking of combining the more modern style channel settings and possibley a trellis type prong to hold the stone with a somehwat edwardian style band however less ornate with than the old-style etchings. The ring now is in a simple cathedrial setting with white gold prongs and a yellow gold band. Between the wedding band and the ER I have an additional 13 10 point stones that I can Incorperate into the new setting(s)
I was hoping for some suggestions as to a platnium smith in the area that I could speak with in person that could help me design the ring. My buget is around 2,000 dollars to work with as I had started to save for a ring before my mom approached me with the suggestion on using her ring to carry on the family tradition.