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

Oh - I've got a sovereign on a gold chain which was my nana's - should really sell it as I can't stand it - she wore it a lot! It's worth approx £500 the sovereign, apparently.

This is one of the pearl necklaces. I've crossed out my grandfather's name on the original guarantee . They are so lovely to wear but sadly I don't have a lot of cause to these days!

Oooh lovely!

That's a lot of peals, you could always get them restrung as single strings if more wearable?

@CleverCatty I've got a half sovereign from grandma. Had it years, I must give it a clean!

I love those pearls!
This ring came to down me via my mum, from my paternal grandmother. It’s an untreated sapphire flanked by two old cut diamonds.
I wear it every day.

My grandma always said she wanted me to get her vast jewellery collection as her only contact granddaughter. (DSis was NC for most her life) but didn't make a will. She did say it often though and even said it when passing away.
My old, single, childless uncles picked ithe jewellery boxes clean first, taking everything that wasn't broken chains and bracelets or plastic Pat Butcher earrings and handed me what was left. I was heartbroken. I took all her broken chains and gold bits, added them to my mother's ugly old wedding ring and had them melted down to create my own wedding ring. So even though my uncles didn't leave me with Gran's jewellery, I have a bespoke wedding ring made from her gold which is dearer to me than anything could be.

I have a bracelet from my granny. My pop made it for her when he was stationed on an island in the pacific during WW2 he was an aircraft engineer he melted sixpences and inlaid it with local pearl shell, I also have a coral necklace he made strung on fishing line, I wear it regularly. The bracelet sadly is way too small, my granny was like a little bird.

This is a sad thread for me. My mum died last March. A few years before she had a house fire and lost everything including a large jewellery collection. Then a year later, we had a burglary and I lost most of my jewellery including items my mum has bought me. Double loss

I’m so sad I won’t have things to pass down to my dds.

The only thing the burglars didn’t take was a string of pearls given to me by my mum on my 18th birthday. I haven’t worn them much. I can’t decide whether to leave them as they are or have them made into pendants for me and my dds.

[quote Trumplosttheelection]@CleverCatty I've got a half sovereign from grandma. Had it years, I must give it a clean! [/quote]
I know she wouldn't care what I did with mine - I honestly can't stand it - reminds me of Del Boy - but she wore it every day on a chain! Must have been trendy at some point .

@CeaseAndDesist

This is one of the pearl necklaces. I've crossed out my grandfather's name on the original guarantee . They are so lovely to wear but sadly I don't have a lot of cause to these days!

That's so pretty.

I went through a stage (when it was trendy, late 80s) when it was trendy to wear twinsets and pearls and Barbour jackets (fake Sloane look) and wore my pearls then and do wear them sometimes but they've gone out of fashion now.