[Jewelry making - Article 00037] - Re: [Orchid] Alexandrite Ring Repair

[Judy Willingham]

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    Hello Orchidland, I beg to differ: 

>     it's unlikely someone would lose track of a stone as valuable as
>     natural alexandrite has always been, 

    My daughter worked in a fine custom jewelry store and told me of a
    woman who brought in an old ring, which she had bought at a thrift
    store. She saw the metal was marked as karat gold, but thought the
    stone was a simulant. Turns out it was a very nice diamond, well over
    a caret. I'd guess it was hidden in a drawer with clothes. The
    owner died and when the house was cleaned out, the drawers were
    dumped into boxes and the contents donated to charity. 

    People DO lose track of those small, but precious bits of jewelry...
    especially folks whose memory may be failing. Which reminds me, I
    wonder where I put that diamond ring I inherited from my mother....
    do the kids even know it exists???  (That's what I mean.) 

Judy in Kansas

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