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

@Trumplosttheelection yes, it's amathyst. There is whole treasure trove of 1930s art deco cocktail rings, ugly brooches, hat pins, etc from my paternal grandparents. Maybe one day it will all come back into fashion?

My maternal grandma and great grandparents seemed to have far more dainty tastes. My aunts are now currently attempting to offload hundreds of whole dinner services of family porcelain onto the next generation but my cousins and I aren't keen - they'd literally end up in a box in the attic. But aunts refuse to just send them to auction as its family history

I think your amethyst is beautiful @RocktheLockdown. I’d wear it.

Well @RocktheLockdown I'd get thee to a jewellers with an interest in Art Deco cos I think it's quite 'in'.....

My dm gave me this ring. It’s 18ct and 22ct gold with an emerald cut ruby.
I also have a 22ct gold cross with a Pearl wreath.

@RocktheLockdown
Your amethyst ring is amazing.

My granny's ring.
It was a gift for her 21st birthday. As a child I was fascinated with how the Opal seemed to change colour in the light. She knew I loved it and left it to me when she died. I rarely take it off. It's more special to me than my wedding ring!

CrotchetyQaver, My mam died recently. My brother & his girlfriend were in her bedroom rifling through her stuff a few days later. Apparently my mother wanted his girlfriend to have certain items. I have 4 sisters & 9 nieces 🙄

My auntie's ring...it wasn't of any particularly sentimental value to her (although I also have her eternity ring from her first marriage somewhere), but I love it.

Purple has been my favourite colour for as long as I can remember and she gifted it to me around my 18th birthday. It's big and quirky and I absolutely love it although I can only just squeeze it on these days.

I have my nans, very plain but beautiful platinum and one carat engagement ring. I haven't taken it off in over 23 years.

Means so much to me.

I inherited some beautiful pearls from my Auntie but they are only 16 inches long so a bit like children's pearls. I gave them to my niece on her 18th birthday as far too small for my fat neck. When my first marriage broke down I knew I would not wear any of jewelry he bought me again so offered it all to our only dd. She turned it down, yellow gold not good enough for her. I told her she could get the diamonds reset etc but still declined. I was quite hurt at the time. I offered a piece each to 3 nieces and 2 great nieces, engagement diamond solitaire 0.5 CT, diamond on a chain necklace 0.5 CT, eternity ring Sapphires and diamonds and sapphire and diamond bracelet and amathyst and diamond bracelet. Also several pairs of diamond stud earrings and diamond and sapphire drop earrings etc. I have seen them all wearing them and that makes me happy because they were all lovely pieces of jewelry. Ungrateful dd has her eye on my platinum and diamond jewelry second DH has bought me.

@Longdistance that's a gorgeous stone!

@HamCob opals are so fascinating, what an unusual ring.

Unfortunately this thread is also demonstrating how badly people can behave where jewellery is concerned. Between the graspers and those dissing yellow gold.....

I have these two rings. One from each grandmother. I was very lucky that they past them on whilst still alive so I got some of their stories with them. I don't wear them often but when I do they make me smile.

I thought yellow gold had come back into fashion. We were married in 2000 and I was thought quite odd for choosing a yellow gold wedding ring. My granny’s Edwardian ring was rose gold.

My tone def suits yellow gold more than silver/white gold.

I'm a magpie and am lucky to be an auctioneer so I love seeing jewellery threads on here!

I am so lucky that I handle so much jewellery and am fortunate to have been able to purchase some quality pieces for a lot less than retail price.

But, my most treasured piece is the tiny tiny diamond and platinum ring that I wear on my (too fat) pinky. It was my great grandmothers engagement ring that was the first item my GGPs bought after losing everything in a fire.
Its monetary value is under £50 but to me it's priceless.

My second most is a lovely ruby and diamond cluster ring I inherited from my DGM. She loved it and wore it everyday but I keep it in the safe as even 10 years after she died it feels 'too soon' to wear her ring.

I've bought lots of pieces of jewellery at auction that other people have inherited and don't care for. I find that really sad but I try to save items from going in the 'melt pot'!

And OP I see on a weekly basis how grabby people can be when a deceased family members estate is dealt with. It's not nice at all.

No it's not nice.

@jellybe that cameo is beautiful! So unusual

Yellow & rose gold are very much in fashion actually...

My mum inherited a couple of bits of jewellery from my Nan but not much as anything expensive got sold when my Nan was younger for household money.. sad really. Also my Nan lost her actual wedding ring & I believe sold her engagement ring.

Nothing got passed down to us from previous generations as they were poor.

My mum does have a couple of unusual bits of my Nans though: a pretty turquoise & gold bar brooch & wide solid silver bangle.
The thing we feel a bit unsure about is a necklace my grandad brought back from Burma in 1945. It's tiny elephants in a chain carved from pure Ivory.
My mum loves elephants so she feels she should discard the necklace but as I said to her it's a bit of ww2 history.

I'm very lucky in that I have a lot of very beautiful stuff passed down from my grandmother, and also from my mum. I've worn my grandmother's custom-made diamond engagement ring every day since I was given it on my 18th birthday, and when my mum died I was given the diamond ring she was bought when I was born, but it's a bit big so I keep it safe rather than wear it.

I also have several strings of pearls belonging to my grandmother and various other bits and bobs. One of my favourites is a big turquoise brooch that I am going to wear as 'something blue' when I get married later this year.

Some of the best stuff went to auction when she died though, including an amazing necklace, earrings and bracelet set made of diamonds and rubies, brought back from India by my grandfather. My mum didn't want to keep it at the time, which I suppose I understand, but god, so gutted not to have it in the family now!

I like yellow gold personally.

My mum has stunning set of gold and enamel earrings from her grandmother. My ears aren't pierced so will be for my sister or my girls

Re Ivory. It's so hard isn't it? I don't think I would feel comfortable wearing it.

No pics as DM has them but they're coming to me apparently, some diamond earrings which are from approx 1910 - they're round and quite pretty with 2 different larger diamonds and a gold setting. Think they're German.

Then there's an old gold diamond and sapphire ring and an old gold sort of linked (hard to describe) with diamond and I think pearl flower bracelet. These two I think are from Germany.

There are also a few rings which are cocktail rings - no idea of some of the stones but I think they're more decorative than anything else.

The reasons for the foreign-ness of them is because family were living in Germany at the time.

a lovely black jet necklace - DM's and a few other bits including a gold christening bracelet with a bell that belonged to one grandparent.

@CeaseAndDesist

I'm very lucky in that I have a lot of very beautiful stuff passed down from my grandmother, and also from my mum. I've worn my grandmother's custom-made diamond engagement ring every day since I was given it on my 18th birthday, and when my mum died I was given the diamond ring she was bought when I was born, but it's a bit big so I keep it safe rather than wear it.

I also have several strings of pearls belonging to my grandmother and various other bits and bobs. One of my favourites is a big turquoise brooch that I am going to wear as 'something blue' when I get married later this year.

Some of the best stuff went to auction when she died though, including an amazing necklace, earrings and bracelet set made of diamonds and rubies, brought back from India by my grandfather. My mum didn't want to keep it at the time, which I suppose I understand, but god, so gutted not to have it in the family now!

I'd love a nice string of old fashioned pearls. Have got new strings of pearls but i think the old ones are better generally?