Fancy a game- give me a history for my ring

[LadyMSM]

Around 15 years ago I was gifted a gold ring by my grandmother

She advised me at the time the ring had belonged to her grandmother and she wanted me to have it at that time.

I then dated the ring to early 1900s and had romanticised the ring and then I got the ring looked at and it dates from 1973... my poor grandmother is clueless and can't even remember giving me the ring now...

So please lets come up with a background story...no story too crazy...as to how this ring came to be in mine or grandmothers possession

Pic of ring for inspiration!

Given the markings that is clearly one of the lost seven rings given to the race of dwarves!

Given that Beleriand was lost it's more likely to be one of those belonging to groups near the Arnor region. Not Durin's folk, so perhaps one of those who built Gundabad originally. Long since lost, but Middle Earth does map on to Europe generally...

Your grandmother's mother or grandmother must have been down the mines lugging coal trucks for 12 hours, and while taking a secret break in exhaustion saw a glint of gold sticking out of a coal seam.

(sorry. there was a thread connected to LOTR on here yesterday...)

Oh, I had a colleague that had that wedding ring!
She was utterly amazing- a real force of nature, but so lovely and kind and supportive too.
She was divorced, and a lone parent to two, but wore it to put men off leching on her (we worked in high volume retail, and would often get chaps chatting us up, sometimes more forcefully than others)

I haven't seen it (or her) for almost thirty years, as I moved away.

Stole it off the side off the washbasin in a working men's club

(That's so what my family would have done)

Haha that made me laugh @MayYouLiveInInterestingTimes

@haba maybe its actually hers...hmmm

@LaurieFairyCake ill be honest I am thinking its probably been found that way or simmilar!

It's obvious what's happened.

The ring is clearly from the future - 3791 to be exact.
The reason your grandmother doesn't remember giving it to you is that she hasn't been to the future yet in her timeline.

@OytheBumbler haha!!

My grandmother had a much-loved ruby ring, which she lost one day. She claimed on the insurance and bought a new ring, as similar as possible to the old one. Some years later, digging in the garden, she found the lost ring, and so ended up with both (I hope and trust she checked with the insurance company this was legit! ).

So my story is that your grandmother remembers giving you her century-old ring, but has forgotten she had to have it replaced with something else more recently.

Or, your grandmother's ring is in fact the true, late Victorian prototype used by a famous jewellery company of the 1990s in making their popular line of antique-looking wedding rings ... it's hugely precious and when you contact the jewellery company, they will insist you sell it to them for an enormous price so they can store it in their archives forever.

You can then use the proceeds to buy Mumsnet.

Sorry, 1970s, not 1990s.

The valuer who dated it to 1973 was a scam artist who intended buying it from you for a tenner and then selling it on for thousands. You saw through his cunning ruse and took it to Antiques Roadshow where the jewelry expert said that you should insure it for a minimum of £250k.

Hahah oh i wish @sarahandquack and @MrsMoastyToasty

Thanks everyone for your replies. I live with re romanticised dreams

I love this thread. Thanks for starting it.

The ring was redesigned and remade in 1973 - the gold used dated from 1666 (The bakers ring melted in the Great Fire of London) 🤔

It's Princess Anne's wedding ring from her marriage to Mark Philips. When they got divorced she donated it to an Oxfam shop. One day your grandad went into the shop and bought it for your granny because he hadn't been able to afford one on their wedding day 50 years earlier. If you hold it up to the light at a certain angle you'll see it has the royal coat of arms inscribed on it and is therefore worth around £250,000.