found old wedding band!

[slg47]

Hi everyone-my mom had a bag of old gold things she was going to sell and I found an old wedding band in it. It is stamped 18k and has engraving (orange blossom?) and very fine milgrain. The gold color is a creamy color...perhaps unplated or worn out white gold? it has an engraving, CCR to ME 3-10-23 (or at least I think that's what it says...will look at it with a loupe later!)

anyway it fits me perfectly so I will keep it! will post pics later...was excited to find it!

 

[Enerchi]

That's a neat story! Maybe you'll learn who the 2 people were and the ring will have even more meaning for you. Wear it in good health and happiness!

 

[slg47]

thanks Enerchi! I don't think it is anyone in my family...I think my mom just found it somewhere?? she said she had had it for a long time.

anyway, here are pics!

you can see the engraving is pretty worn...but the milgrain looks excellent


the year...does it look like 23??


ETA more pics...
with my ring

 

[armywife13]

I love the band!

 

[slg47]

thanks armywife! i love it too, can't believe it is my size it appears to be very well made...I wonder how these old bands were made? the milgrain is very very fine.

now I just need an old e-ring to go with it

 

[junebug17]

Sig, that's really beautiful!! Wow, what a find!

 

[JewelFreak]

That's very nice & looks great with your e-ring! Cool find.

Re: finding the original owners -- hard when you have only initials but would be fun to know. I have several estate pieces & love wearing something someone else loved. Kind of like being its steward. In that vein, I have an elegant small sterling bowl that was my grandmother's; she probably picked it up at an antique or estate shop in NYC where they lived. It is engraved with a boy's name which I've forgotten, and "from his godmother, Helen Fidelia Draper, Seneca Falls NY" and a date in the teens or 20s. I looked them up on the internet & her husband owned a factory of some sort & she did much charity work. The baby eventually went to Yale & became a doctor. It is really cool to know & I think of good old Helen every time I polish her pretty bowl. Maybe the recipient's family sold it when he died, who knows. After me, I hope someone else will take care of it.

--- Laurie

 

[movie zombie]

i love the band with your ring. its a very nice look!

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

I love it!

cheers--Sharon

 

[diamondringlover]

Wow that is really pretty!

 

[slg47]

movie zombie - thank you! I think I will keep it as an 'alternate' wedding band (hey, this is PS...right??) maybe sometime in the future I will find another vintage band to stack with it.

canuk-gal, diamondrnglover, junebug - thank you!

JewelFreak-that is so cool that you were able to research the original owners of the bowl! I do not think this is from anyone in my family...I think maybe my mom found it when running one day or something? she said she has had it for maybe 25+ years so really not sure. I was very surprised to find it!

 

[pregcurious]

Very pretty band! Inherited and gifted jewelry is so neat because it opens us up to items we would not have purchased ourselves.

 

[ramankumar]

Very Nice picture........i love this band very much

 

[jewelerman]

its a keeper!

 

[Imdanny]

Wasn't "Orange Blossom" a brand name?

 

[jewelerman]

Danny, yes.Orange blossom was a brand name for a larger company but i cant remember which one.

 

[slg47]

yes Danny you are correct...after I posted that I realized it was a name of a brand not a style of engraving!

 

[jamesdiamonds]

I love diamond band. I want to buy some special wedding band for my wedding. And I found from liori diamonds. It has very nice collection of diamond wedding bands.

 

[Amys Bling]

great band!