SoonIHope
Ideal_Rock
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Over Thanksgiving, I asked my mom to get the antique diamond necklace that I''m wearing at my wedding out of the bank vault so I could try it on with some potential earrings (BAD fit, blah, back to square one on the earrings front), and it ended up turning into a totally random let''s look at & take pictures of all the good family jewelry! Basically, both of my grandparents died in the past several years, so my mom and her 3 sisters are still slowly divvying everything up. My mom is (luckily for me!) the most enthusiastic about the jewelry so far, which is how I''ve ended up with a couple smaller pieces already, and she has a few more pieces now too.
BUT - the star of this show as far as I''m concerned, is my great grandmother''s engagement ring! In the 70''s, when she died, everyone in the family was sad that her ring seemed to have disappeared and they assumed it had been stolen or lost at some point, and that was that. Then, a few weeks ago, my parents moved into my grandparents'' old house (which they received when a friend of theirs died, so it''s like triple-furnished at this point) which is filled with boxes and boxes of decaying worthless junk, while they wait for their new house to be completed. For Thanksgiving, my brother & his wife and my fiance & I all went up to stay with them, so my mom was trying to clean things out to make it more liveable. In the bottom of a box filled mainly with newspaper clippings and old bills etc, was a small envelope that had, in my grandfather''s handwriting, the word "anelli" on it. (My grandfather was in the foreign service so they lived in Rome a long time and a lot of people in the family speak at least a little Italian - but most probably wouldn''t have recognized what that meant) My mom that it meant "rings" but was just confused because, hey, it''s a small scrappy envelope shoved in a huge box of junk. BUT then she opened it up and THERE WAS HER GRANDMOTHER''S ENGAGEMENT RING!!! It had apparently been sitting in this box for 30 years and for some reason people just must not have mentioned how the ring was missing to my grandfather (her son-in-law) so he never got around to telling them. Long story (sorry!) but I thought it was just crazy, so I wanted to share.
Without further ado: my great grandmother''s engagement ring!! (Purchased around when she got married in the early 1900s, but we''re not sure if it was new at that point or not)
BUT - the star of this show as far as I''m concerned, is my great grandmother''s engagement ring! In the 70''s, when she died, everyone in the family was sad that her ring seemed to have disappeared and they assumed it had been stolen or lost at some point, and that was that. Then, a few weeks ago, my parents moved into my grandparents'' old house (which they received when a friend of theirs died, so it''s like triple-furnished at this point) which is filled with boxes and boxes of decaying worthless junk, while they wait for their new house to be completed. For Thanksgiving, my brother & his wife and my fiance & I all went up to stay with them, so my mom was trying to clean things out to make it more liveable. In the bottom of a box filled mainly with newspaper clippings and old bills etc, was a small envelope that had, in my grandfather''s handwriting, the word "anelli" on it. (My grandfather was in the foreign service so they lived in Rome a long time and a lot of people in the family speak at least a little Italian - but most probably wouldn''t have recognized what that meant) My mom that it meant "rings" but was just confused because, hey, it''s a small scrappy envelope shoved in a huge box of junk. BUT then she opened it up and THERE WAS HER GRANDMOTHER''S ENGAGEMENT RING!!! It had apparently been sitting in this box for 30 years and for some reason people just must not have mentioned how the ring was missing to my grandfather (her son-in-law) so he never got around to telling them. Long story (sorry!) but I thought it was just crazy, so I wanted to share.
Without further ado: my great grandmother''s engagement ring!! (Purchased around when she got married in the early 1900s, but we''re not sure if it was new at that point or not)
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