LGK
Ideal_Rock
- Joined
- Nov 27, 2007
- Messages
- 2,975
OK so I think I finally rubbed off on her. Ha. She's had a pretty celtic yellow gold knotwork band with a small bezel set sapphire since she got (re)married in... 1997 or something? Anyway, she's ridiculously hard on the poor thing. Gardening in it (and I mean heavy gardening, like digging koi ponds and stuff), never taking it off, etc. So it's pretty mangled- the bezel is worn very flat, the ring's out of round and the gold's quite worn, and the sapphire's... well, mangled is the word- chipped, scratched, worn facets and so forth.
I got her to take it off to clean it today and the entire space behind the stone was packed with dirt- and of course that made me totally twitch
.
So anyway, her husband OK'd her to find a diamond for an alternate e-ring. I got her an antique diamond ring two xmases ago, which was her first diamond... it was a pretty 2-tone gold '40s ring, with a small diamond, probably .20ish cts, and she wears it as a pinky ring.
I had been trying to foist this ring off on *someone* because it's a screaming deal and really pretty (it belongs to a dealer in the antique mall I work at). Anyway, apparently it was waiting for her- she fell in love with it yesterday and wanted me to come look at it today, and I totally laughed when I saw it was this particular ring I'd thought was the best deal we had in the mall at the moment.
It's somewhere around .55-.65 cts, 18K white gold filigree die struck setting with synthetic french cut sapphires, c. late 1920s I think. (It is in fact extremely similar to my e-ring setting which I think is cool too.) The center stone is a modern RB, but an older one with a bruted girdle. It's table isn't huge though and it has decent crown height, so that's nice. Cut isn't like awesomely superb, but still pretty nice- no distracting darkness, decent fire and light return. The scintillation is a bit less than similar stones though, but otherwise it's a pretty cut, especially for the price. The color is fabulous- super, super white. I am not a great judge of high color stones when they're set, but IMO it's probably a G, or could be higher. No fluoro.
The price is absolutely killer- probably around scrap for the setting.
Oh and it needs some work- it was sized down but not soldered back together, and one prong is sheared off, but since it has 8 prongs it's wearable as-is at least.
It's a very small size right now- a tiny smidge over 4. She'll need around a 6.5. I was pleasantly surprised that it fit me- I will be happy if I ever get down to a size 3 again finally! (But I'll take size 4 any day, it's been awhile since my fingers were that small.)
Anyway I am totally excited for her that she got a diamond e-ring for the first time in her life I did forbid her to do major earth moving in the garden while wearing the new ring however. We'll see how long that lasts! Least it'll hold up better than a sapphire...
I'll try to post better pics with the decent camera later and not just use my cruddy phone camera.
I got her to take it off to clean it today and the entire space behind the stone was packed with dirt- and of course that made me totally twitch
.So anyway, her husband OK'd her to find a diamond for an alternate e-ring. I got her an antique diamond ring two xmases ago, which was her first diamond... it was a pretty 2-tone gold '40s ring, with a small diamond, probably .20ish cts, and she wears it as a pinky ring.
I had been trying to foist this ring off on *someone* because it's a screaming deal and really pretty (it belongs to a dealer in the antique mall I work at). Anyway, apparently it was waiting for her- she fell in love with it yesterday and wanted me to come look at it today, and I totally laughed when I saw it was this particular ring I'd thought was the best deal we had in the mall at the moment.
It's somewhere around .55-.65 cts, 18K white gold filigree die struck setting with synthetic french cut sapphires, c. late 1920s I think. (It is in fact extremely similar to my e-ring setting which I think is cool too.) The center stone is a modern RB, but an older one with a bruted girdle. It's table isn't huge though and it has decent crown height, so that's nice. Cut isn't like awesomely superb, but still pretty nice- no distracting darkness, decent fire and light return. The scintillation is a bit less than similar stones though, but otherwise it's a pretty cut, especially for the price. The color is fabulous- super, super white. I am not a great judge of high color stones when they're set, but IMO it's probably a G, or could be higher. No fluoro.
The price is absolutely killer- probably around scrap for the setting.
Oh and it needs some work- it was sized down but not soldered back together, and one prong is sheared off, but since it has 8 prongs it's wearable as-is at least.
It's a very small size right now- a tiny smidge over 4. She'll need around a 6.5. I was pleasantly surprised that it fit me- I will be happy if I ever get down to a size 3 again finally! (But I'll take size 4 any day, it's been awhile since my fingers were that small.)
Anyway I am totally excited for her that she got a diamond e-ring for the first time in her life
I did forbid her to do major earth moving in the garden while wearing the new ring however. We'll see how long that lasts! Least it'll hold up better than a sapphire...I'll try to post better pics with the decent camera later and not just use my cruddy phone camera.
for your mum!
300x240.png)