Inheritance jewellery - come and share yours

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This ring is my inheritance from my dear grandmother that l collected today. I adore it.

Please do share your inherited rings and baubles

Well he sounds vile.

There are some beautiful pieces of jewellery being shown on this thread by the way. 😍

I have a few pieces. The first is a jewellery set given to me when I was 16 by my nan. I wear it at parties and hope to give it to my own granddaughter one day. I have earrings given to me my gran for my 16th, I was surprised to see them as my gran was not well off and they are from her personal collection.

My auntie had given me earrings that she loved to keep to remember her by. She is very much alive but has shared out her jewellery now as she wants to see us all wear it.

My mum gave me a ring that my grandad gave to her on her wedding to wear on my own. I felt like he was with me on the day.

My favourite pieces are a jewellery set my mum gave me when my dd (her first grandchild) was born. It was a wedding gift to her from my nan and grandad and whilst old-fashioned in design is dear to me (pic attached).

When my mum got married my grandad bought her a large Indian gold jewellery set to wear. She wore it twice and decided to get it remade into two smaller sets that she would get wear out of. One is a beautiful set with red and green stones with pearls in a gold setting. I used to go with mum to the bank to get jewellery out when there was a special occasion and would always hold it to my neck even as a child and say I loved it. My mum said I could have it on my 30th which as a child seemed so far away. When I turned 30 mum gave it to me. I own a lot of jewellery but it is the most special piece to me it has my mum's and grandparents love in it. I have not got a close up pic of it on my phone unfortunately!

Sceptre86 that is absolutely stunning.

@Trumplosttheelection, yes, probably one or the other - I’m fairly ancient and that GM was a small child when Queen Vic died.

My other GM, same sort of age - remembered the church bells tolling and her father saying in a very solemn voice, ‘The Queen is dead!’ and thinking the world must be coming to an end if the Queen was dead!

Talking of inherited jewellery, after her GM died, a SiL of mine found that the wife of the GM’s Gds - so not a blood relative - had been to the house and helped herself to the whole lot!

Talk about CF-ery - but I’m pleased to say that they made her give it all back.

MIL was widowed young, then married a wealthy American she met whilst working as a barmaid. She moved to America with him, and he bought her valuable jewellery every birthday and Christmas. She told me that all the jewellery was going to be left to her two grandaughters, which we thought was lovely, as they adored her. When she died, with no will, her husband sent a package to us, which was all flashy costume jewellery! He had three daughters, and we imagined them saying "Dad, you bought all that expensive stuff, it's ours!" MIL would have been furious!

My aunt always said she'd leave her fabulous platinum and diamond ring to me but landed up dying without a will. Her jewellery was valued and the three sisters were asked if they wanted to purchase any of it before it was sold. My mum said she'd buy the ring if she could afford it. It had been valued at £500 so she purchased it for me as she knew how much I loved it. It was the loveliest thing she ever did for me and I wear it every day and think of them both. I had it valued and it's worth £10k so I'll be forever grateful to the jeweller who did the probable valuation as he clearly had no clue

Probate not probable!

My daughter has my mum's engagement ring. Her wedding ring is in a box.

My MiL had some beautiful jewellery. I wasn’t offered any.

I've inherited jewellery from both grandmothers including a wedding ring of 67 years, and also lots from my DM including a gorgeous diamond eternity ring she bought in Amsterdam.
It's all gold though, so I don't wear any of it.
No daughters, sisters, nieces or God-daughters. I don't know where it will all end up after me.

Some lovely things. Huge bad luck with jewellery in our family, GM lost most to house burglars in the 90s, then the 2 rings she wanted to leave to my dd and niece were stolen from her fingers between the care home and hospital when she died.

One day when all this is over I'm going to buy myself a lovely antique piece.

From my mum. 2.4 carats.

Wow that's a stunner!

My favourite type of thread! Mine is a modest one but when I got married I used the 3 small diamonds from my much-loved Gran's engagement ring in my wedding band. DH got one small diamond from her ring set into his wedding band.

I like knowing that I am looking as the same diamonds my Gran did. She died when I was 13 and I still miss her and think about her all the time.

Forgot the pic!

That's so sweet. Yes I like looking at it too because it was on her finger and now it's on mine.

My great grandmother's engagement ring. Its over 100 year old bit is probably the most special bit of family history I own.

However the stuff that came down from my dad's parents is all completely not my style. Like this ginormous purple monstrosity - it just makes me feel like I'm wearing a knuckle duster.

I love this 18ct gold pendant & chain inherited from a family friend.
It's dated 1934 which would be the year she turned 16 I think & it's a pendant of a Catholic saint I believe, it's St. Therese de Lisieux the patron saint of small good deeds.
My family friend was born a Scottish Catholic & was sent to Convent School in Belgium.
I also inherited money for a house deposit from my family friend so the necklace reminds me of their kindness which has changed my life really.

@RocktheLockdown is that a real stone?

@Tehmina23 that's lovely, so meaningful.

I’ve got my gran’s wedding ring. Very plain, but 22ct gold. She was tiny! It only fits on my little finger but I wear it all the time.

I must admit this thread has made me think again about my jewellery and watches. I have some wonderful pieces and no one to eventually leave them to. It’s a shame. I have an un married son and no nephews or nieces. Oh well. I’ll have to take it with me 😁