[Jewelry making - Article 00201] - Re: [Orchid] Legacy of Old Diamonds...

[Stephen Walker]

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>     You say that these folks were your friends. I submit that you, or
>     someone close to you, would appreciate their history more than
>     anyone one else. 

Thanks, Steve.

    Stories like yours are the kind of response I was hoping for. I do
    appreciate the suggestions from other Orchadianss well. The previous
    owners of these diamonds were friends, but not especially close. The
    father and grandmother ran the local diner back when I was a kid. One
    night, when I was barely old enough to be in a bar, the father told
    me his harrowing war stories from the Pacific in WWII and Korea. The
    son who sold the ring to me, lost his own adult son about two years
    ago, less than a year after the death of his father. 

    I really have no desire to keep the diamonds myself. I told the son
    that I would make them into something that I hoped would do them
    justice. The stones are of middling quality. Two women who work for
    me take opposite views. One, who never knew the folks personally,
    says she would not want to know if she were to get the diamonds. The
    other, who knew the family and is very sentimental about everything,
    says she would want whoever gets them to know. I'll probably have to
    play it by ear when it comes time to either tell where the diamonds
    came from or hold my tongue. 

Stephen Walker

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