Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer typical of the period

typical of the period

and made them the fashion of the day throughout the continent

a gem so bold

A jewel like this would probably have been worn originally by just such a lady in her half-mourning phase

Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer typical of the periodThere is a moment, quiet, breath held, electric, when a question asked in love meets its answer. I imagine this ring at the center of such a moment in Edwardian England: a winter afternoon, pale sunlight filtering through mullioned windows, a young woman turning toward the man she has waited for a moment longer than propriety would admit. He offers her a small leather box; inside, this extraordinary cluster of fire and lightsimple in form,