SoonIHope
Ideal_Rock
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First a little background...both of my mother''s parents passed away in the past few years, so all of their stuff was in storage as my mother and her sisters slowly picked through it, but now that my parents are moving away from the city of the storage area they have stepped up the sorting process. For all of the heirloom jewelry that had belonged to my grandmother, my mother and her three sisters took turns choosing which items they wanted - except for a few REALLY fancy ones that they decided they should sell and split the profits. Since they are planning to sell them soon, my mom brought these two out to show me since I may never see them again!
But, after a lot of begging, I got my mom to agree to ask her sisters if they can wait to sell the necklace after my wedding.
I mean, how else am I going to have a THIRTEEN CARAT diamond necklace to wear??? I don''t normally wear yellow gold, but my dress has a bit of gold thread accent in it, and goddamn this necklace is gorgeous (if I may say so myself!) so I''m changing my plan for that! The pin is about 8 carats total, and is engraved "APB - July 10th, 1879". It was a wedding day present given from my great great grandfather to his wife. The necklace is also hers, probably from the 1880s? I believe all of the diamonds are old mine cuts, but conceivably they could be OECs. The appraisal said that they were all E to G in color and VS1 to SI1 on both pieces. The largest diamonds in the center of each piece are approximately 1.6 carats. (This is all from memory so I could be a bit off.) One thing I think is really cool, is that you can tell that none of the diamonds are QUITE symmetrical! Just reminds you that they used to really be cut by hand without all the fancy technology. When you''re just looking at it on, I don''t think you can really tell but when you look up close some of them are almost D shaped.
I also took some neck shots, but my camera and my computer are having a disagreement at the moment, so it only let me import about half of my photos from the weekend.
My fiance was able to get them on his computer, though, so I know the images themselves aren''t corrupted, so I''ll hopefully figure it out soon and can post those too! I feel like a princess wearing the necklace, I NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS thought I would get to wear something like this at my wedding!!!!
I also took some neck shots, but my camera and my computer are having a disagreement at the moment, so it only let me import about half of my photos from the weekend.
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