Wow, this is my first ever SMTR topic where I actually have something of my own to show!! Here is my newly fixed up RHR!
Some background: My family has a tradition for girls to receive a ring on their 16th birthday. This was my 16th birthday ring: 4 pearls (my birthstone) surrounded by 16 diamonds in an antique Victorian yellow gold setting. My mom found the ring when I was around 10 or 11 and knew it was the "one" and I received it for my 16th.
I know NOTHING about the specs. The pearls have had to be replaced quite a bit over the years, as was the shank once since the gold had worn thin on the back side. It's 14k YG(?) The melee diamonds are not all uniform size--the ones on the "sides" of the rectangle shape are smaller, but I can't really estimate--perhaps it's a combo of 1 and 2 pointers? No clue. Most of them are lovely and sparkly, though there are 1 or 2 that are pretty dim/dark. Again, no clue if they're full-cut, single-cut, whatever. When my mom bought it in '84 or '85 it was around $650 and was confirmed to be an antique.
I wore it on my left hand ring finger for YEARS...even into college & beyond, at which point it was kind of cool because it had enough e/w-ring-ish sparkle that it served as a helpful little deterrent at bars and such if I didn't want to be hit on!! I stopped wearing it regularly around 5 years ago, because 1) I wasn't into yellow gold anymore, and 2) in my mid-late 20s it seemed silly to wear a non e-ring on that hand with a long-term boyfriend....it was either going to be an e-ring when I was ready for one (wasn't then, am now!), or nothing at all! So it sadly languished in my jewelry box unworn!
I finally decided--after almost a year of PS warping my sad little brain--that my HSN fakeys weren't going to cut it and that I needed some REAL sparkle of my own!!! So I went back in to our family jeweler and we had this baby sized up for my right hand (it's now 6 3/4), dipped in Rhodium so it's more like WG in appearance (of course, it'll fade eventually, but it's only worn occasionally,) and had the pearls replaced again.
I took an INSANE amount of photos: chubby hand shots, flower shots, poodle shots, etc. I combined most into collages b/c I don't want to bore everyone to tears, but here is my new(old) 16th b-day RHR...as good as new 15 years later!!
Some background: My family has a tradition for girls to receive a ring on their 16th birthday. This was my 16th birthday ring: 4 pearls (my birthstone) surrounded by 16 diamonds in an antique Victorian yellow gold setting. My mom found the ring when I was around 10 or 11 and knew it was the "one" and I received it for my 16th.
I know NOTHING about the specs. The pearls have had to be replaced quite a bit over the years, as was the shank once since the gold had worn thin on the back side. It's 14k YG(?) The melee diamonds are not all uniform size--the ones on the "sides" of the rectangle shape are smaller, but I can't really estimate--perhaps it's a combo of 1 and 2 pointers? No clue. Most of them are lovely and sparkly, though there are 1 or 2 that are pretty dim/dark. Again, no clue if they're full-cut, single-cut, whatever. When my mom bought it in '84 or '85 it was around $650 and was confirmed to be an antique.
I wore it on my left hand ring finger for YEARS...even into college & beyond, at which point it was kind of cool because it had enough e/w-ring-ish sparkle that it served as a helpful little deterrent at bars and such if I didn't want to be hit on!! I stopped wearing it regularly around 5 years ago, because 1) I wasn't into yellow gold anymore, and 2) in my mid-late 20s it seemed silly to wear a non e-ring on that hand with a long-term boyfriend....it was either going to be an e-ring when I was ready for one (wasn't then, am now!), or nothing at all! So it sadly languished in my jewelry box unworn!
I finally decided--after almost a year of PS warping my sad little brain--that my HSN fakeys weren't going to cut it and that I needed some REAL sparkle of my own!!! So I went back in to our family jeweler and we had this baby sized up for my right hand (it's now 6 3/4), dipped in Rhodium so it's more like WG in appearance (of course, it'll fade eventually, but it's only worn occasionally,) and had the pearls replaced again.
I took an INSANE amount of photos: chubby hand shots, flower shots, poodle shots, etc. I combined most into collages b/c I don't want to bore everyone to tears, but here is my new(old) 16th b-day RHR...as good as new 15 years later!!
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