Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer a gem so bold

a gem so bold

and made them the fashion of the day throughout the continent

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

and entirely wonderful

Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer a gem so boldThere 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,