Posts Tagged ‘Antique or Inherited Jewelry’
Inherited Jewelry – What to Do With Your Inherited Jewelry?
Locked Away Jewelry is Sad Your beloved Grandma Lowena passed on. You are past tears and you are moving on with your life.Your lawyer Mr. Pender has given each of the family members pieces of her jewelry. You received her soldered together wedding set and clip-on pearl earrings.Hmmm, now what? You can’t wear those clip-ons…
Read MoreSix Actions You Can Take With Your Chipped Diamonds
To break a nail, ladies, is never good. To break a diamond…even less so. Nails grow back relatively quickly. Diamonds…not so fast. Hmmm, actually not at all. Believe me, I’ve seen plenty of chipped diamonds. In this post I am going to suggest six actions you can take with your chipped diamonds.Even though they’re…
Read MorePawn Shop vs. Jeweler for Your Engagement Diamond
On occasion a client asks me about diamond shopping at pawn shops vs. diamond shopping with a jeweler, so I decided to write this to answer most questions you may have. Let me start by showing you all this interesting exchange I got from DiamondReview.com: “I plan on buying a possible engagement ring in…
Read MoreVintage Diamond Eternity Band – A Ring Sizing Story
What happens when you are given a delicate, small sized, and seemingly unwearable ring as a gift? Tansy was a finger size eight, and her grandmother had been a size four-and-a-half. When she inherited her grandmother’s diamond eternity band six years ago, it was clear that she wasn’t getting it onto her finger without…
Read MoreRe-Engraving a Boring Old Tiny Band Ring, Or How Re-Engraving Saved This Ring
Sometimes rings fall through the cracks in life. My client Carol inherited a tired looking tiny band ring. It had wonderful memories because it was from her Grandmother. It had never really seen the light of day since she’d received it years ago. She wondered if there was a way to make it look more…
Read MoreCharm Bracelets vs Charm Necklaces
Joanne’s Charm Necklace in Gold Shows Each Individual Charm The good, the bad and the ugly of charm bracelets. Charm bracelets are so full of love and memories and cute little jewelry treasures. That’s the good news. The bad news is they catch on things, rip your nylons, wreck your sweaters, (the ugly!) scratch your…
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