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Ideal_Rock
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PICTURE (and story) HEAVY!
Starring: Miss Golightly, rather innocent, but doesn't really know what she wants to be:
ALso Starring: The Lone Siren: a lovely ring that didn't want to play nicely!
And, in her Debut of freedom, meet Mae, an M OEC who didn't know what she wanted to be...
And the final player, Lula...a true vintage from the 1940's in white and yellow gold, she's a smalltown girl with big plans...
Our story opens with Miss Golightly, a ring I got last year. The in depth on it is in this thread if you want to read (though it isn't really necessary).![Smile2 :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/oec-sparkley-arrived-time-to-compare-to-mrb-need-opinions.179929/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/oec-sparkley-arrived-time-to-compare-to-mrb-need-opinions.179929/[/URL]
The upshot is, MSiss Golightly was never meant to be the permanent home for the M stone sitting in it, but it went so well with The Ring That Did Not Want To Play Nicely (my lovely Van Craeynest band) I just left it alone, despite the things I didn't like about the setting (diamond set too low, and prongs not what I was hoping for on a fishtail setting). But it still bugged me and so I looked on and off trying to find an actual antique setting as Dreamer had suggested. Nothing was going to fit. I saw plenty of old settings, but the ones I liked were either too big or too small, and certainly no pretty octagonal ones jumped out at me....
Then I saw Lula. And it looked like it might fit. And the price was good. And so I said "sure, let's try it" (thinking it would be a cool setting for a purple spinel in any case should my instinct fail me).
And still I was afraid to pull the stone from the setting...what if I was wrong????? And so I did it anyway....
And this is what I said 30 seconds after he took it out:
Poor Mae! She'd been languishing in that platinum!!!!
No more!!!! Meet LulaMae. Lula and Mae are so much happier together. A vintage setting and a vintage stone. AH....
So, a happy ending...for now...Where will LulaMae go next?????
Hmmmmm.....
![m3.jpg m3.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497877-2ba666ef1823c3d0c972b793fcbb0a73.jpg)
Starring: Miss Golightly, rather innocent, but doesn't really know what she wants to be:
![m113aa.jpg m113aa.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497868-41fafb2977d477fc4c45d3c90b80d67b.jpg)
ALso Starring: The Lone Siren: a lovely ring that didn't want to play nicely!
![set2.jpg set2.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497869-ce97d3e6b8cb37e85c0369e3df759aef.jpg)
And, in her Debut of freedom, meet Mae, an M OEC who didn't know what she wanted to be...
![freestone1.jpg freestone1.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497870-0cb7334b45a7052ef51a8808e3fd8754.jpg)
And the final player, Lula...a true vintage from the 1940's in white and yellow gold, she's a smalltown girl with big plans...
![vintsetting.jpg vintsetting.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497871-d62fc20f774502c9cb26e3d119687670.jpg)
Our story opens with Miss Golightly, a ring I got last year. The in depth on it is in this thread if you want to read (though it isn't really necessary).
[URL='https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/oec-sparkley-arrived-time-to-compare-to-mrb-need-opinions.179929/']https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/oec-sparkley-arrived-time-to-compare-to-mrb-need-opinions.179929/[/URL]
The upshot is, MSiss Golightly was never meant to be the permanent home for the M stone sitting in it, but it went so well with The Ring That Did Not Want To Play Nicely (my lovely Van Craeynest band) I just left it alone, despite the things I didn't like about the setting (diamond set too low, and prongs not what I was hoping for on a fishtail setting). But it still bugged me and so I looked on and off trying to find an actual antique setting as Dreamer had suggested. Nothing was going to fit. I saw plenty of old settings, but the ones I liked were either too big or too small, and certainly no pretty octagonal ones jumped out at me....
![Blackeye :blackeye: :blackeye:](/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/15.gif)
Then I saw Lula. And it looked like it might fit. And the price was good. And so I said "sure, let's try it" (thinking it would be a cool setting for a purple spinel in any case should my instinct fail me).
And still I was afraid to pull the stone from the setting...what if I was wrong????? And so I did it anyway....
And this is what I said 30 seconds after he took it out:
![rlp.jpg rlp.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497872-96495d47c4ab02094fe33b3da1bf60e4.jpg)
![freestone2.jpg freestone2.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497873-546c2e3b35b929f595a9932f190393c5.jpg)
Poor Mae! She'd been languishing in that platinum!!!!
No more!!!! Meet LulaMae. Lula and Mae are so much happier together. A vintage setting and a vintage stone. AH....
![vintage2.jpg vintage2.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497874-d979f65ae6022a53f74a6af584dd4c79.jpg)
![vintage5.jpg vintage5.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497875-1cbdb3e017b1ac719cf2184600f2212e.jpg)
![vintage7.jpg vintage7.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497876-a9a2ab600d665e59ca1cdb5c7c67624c.jpg)
So, a happy ending...for now...Where will LulaMae go next?????
Hmmmmm.....
![m3.jpg m3.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/497/497877-2ba666ef1823c3d0c972b793fcbb0a73.jpg)