Have You looked at Tacori in Rose Gold?

Date: 11/16/2008 4:57:48 AM
Author: flowerladytoo
Those Tacori rings in rose gold are amazing! Unfortunately, way out of my price range...sigh. Oh well....I can dream, anyway

It's interesting how fads come and go. I have a ring that belonged to my mother. It was given to her by her oldest sister, who found it on a bus back in 1915, before my mom was born. She gave it to my mom when she was 5, back in 1926 or 1927. It's a beautiful rose gold gypsy ring, very heavy gold, with ornate green gold leaves at the top of the shank on each side, and large rose gold ovals on the top with a moonstone in the middle oval and two actual diamond chips on each side of the moonstone in the other two ovals. I wish I could take a good picture of it! My mom gave it to my much oldest sister when I was small..and my sister left it in her jewel box...it didn't look like much at the time, dark and discolored, and missing the bottom of the shank where the gold from resizing the originally very tiny ring had fallen out and left a gap. My sis offered it to me in the early 1980's. I took it to a jeweler who cleaned and reshanked it. Told me it was 18k, unusually pretty, and very high quality. When I went to pick it up, I was amazed. It was absolutely gorgeous and didn't look anything like the sorry little ring I had dropped off! Boy, was my sister upset when she saw what she had given away. I wore it for years, until my knuckles grew too big for it to fit over them anymore. It was my something old at my wedding too, and my younger sister used it in her wedding too, as her something old, as did both of my own daughters at their weddings last year.

Most people who saw it in the 1980's while I was wearing it, had never seen rose gold, and it was quite a conversation starter. I'm glad to see rose gold coming back in style. I should get my ring sized up a bit so it goes over my knuckles, and start wearing it again. I watch eBay and other antique places often, hoping to find one that is similar...but so far no luck. Both my daughters want this ring, and I would love to find another one so I have one for each of them.

Date: 11/16/2008 3:28:18 PM
Author: lauralu
ditto, please post pics flowerlady. Sounds lovely!

Date: 11/16/2008 9:56:18 PM
Author: lauralu
Neverending....i am pretty certain that is the one I tried on at a BM store awhile back. Loved it!!! I think it was something like 5 grand though. Gorgeous and danity. Very feminine.