Dealing with Rings

[Tengu]

I had a search through my jewellery box...most seems to be inherited and I dont wear it.

I have wedding rings going back to my Great Gran.

And a few other nice rings. I dont wear rings; would worry my fingers raw.

Any suggestion as to what to do with them?

Im going to probably get rid of the lighter stuff; Im a chunky person and delicate jewellery doesnt work for me.

Yesterday I got a Victorian Scottish piece, nice stones, from the pawnbroker. They asked £100 and I wouldnt budge until they threw in a light (But suitable) curb chain for it.

Now I need a box.

Theres loads of good stuff on the market and a lot is sold by weight these days...very sad.

 

[Pattree]

I suppose you could have the family ones melted and recast into something chunky.

 

[TeeDee]

I had a search through my jewellery box...most seems to be inherited and I dont wear it.

I have wedding rings going back to my Great Gran.

And a few other nice rings. I dont wear rings; would worry my fingers raw.

Any suggestion as to what to do with them?

Im going to probably get rid of the lighter stuff; Im a chunky person and delicate jewellery doesnt work for me.

Yesterday I got a Victorian Scottish piece, nice stones, from the pawnbroker. They asked £100 and I wouldnt budge until they threw in a light (But suitable) curb chain for it.

Now I need a box.

Theres loads of good stuff on the market and a lot is sold by weight these days...very sad.

You could find a local reputable jeweller , ask for a price and get them professionally assayed. Depends if you think they may have worth and what your end goal is.

 

[Kadushu]

Isn't the usual way to go on a very long walk and drop them in a volcano?

 

[Chris]

Tengu would need to venture through the ruined ash lands, passing scorched remains of civilisations long corrupted by evil, and there, amongst smouldering pits full of damned souls, may she cast the ring to flame.

Then again, I don’t think she’s that close to Hull so maybe she could try somewhere else.

 

[Tengu]

No, my legs not up to it yet.

Nor am I going to use B Baggins advice on wearing. Not suitable for rings with stones really.

Though most of them dont have stones.

(Gran and Great Gran went for emeralds, interestingly.)

(Never been to Hull though I have heard they have a nice bridge and museum...)

 

[oldtimer]

I nearly went to Hull by taking the wrong turn on the motorway while fetching my son from Leeds University and had to backtrack. It's still remembered as the trip to Hull and Back.

 

[plastic-ninja]

A good working silver/goldsmith could recover the gold & the stones and remake them into something you would like to wear.
I have a friend who does this regularly for people.
Her business is called Nisha Halo.
Her work is lovely. Really nice person too.

 

[Tengu]

No, these are of sentimental value.

Im going through my stuff and I am doing my best to be ruthless.

Got rid of 2 bags clothing. I aim to halve my clothing.

But yes, I do get attached to stuff. And some of it might be useful.

I do not regret keeping my Canadian parka...not now I am in Scotland in the colder weather...

 

[Chris]

How much space do the rings take up? About the size of a matchbox?

Perhaps you have bigger fish to fry when it comes to declutterring.

 

[Wildgoose]

Whilst I understand the need/want to shed the burden of “stuff”, it’s worth remembering that some things can never be replaced due to the sentiments they hold.
Maybe dedicate a small box to such items? I have a memory box in the loft, coins, medals, bits and bobs I might want to re-visit in the future.

 

[Tengu]

Im so bad at getting rid of stuff, anything, however minor, is a victory.

 

[Broch]

Make a 'treasure box' - it can hold all sorts of small items such as jewellery with sentimental value, an antique penknife, a school badge, a postcard of a special place ....

I go through mine occasionally and it brings back great memories; the grandchildren love rummaging through it as well

 

[Tengu]

Thought you might like to see my necklace.

 

[Pattree]

A received treasure or did you make it? Definitely one for the keeping box.

 

[Tengu]

Found it in the pawnbrokers, -one of the best places for old silver.

Lucky they had a suited chain.

Unhallmarked, alas.

 

[Paul_B]

As a kid I had a treasure box. It was an old plastic ferrerra Rochet box and had alsorts in it including two large milk teeth molars I had removed while under full anaesthetic because they actually had big roots on them!! Still they were too important to throw them away, my treasure!

 

[Paul_B]

My great granddad was an engineer then after he got ill he became a pawnbroker i think. Or something like that. Anyway, my gran gave my mum her mum's engagement ring. My mum kept trying to get me and my partner to marry by offering up her gran's engagement ring. My great granddad got it from his pawnbrokers and it was old back then. ALso a good ring in good gold with a good stone in it that he could never have got any other way. He probably gave the former owner next to nothing in the deal for it too. Not great but behind every pawnbroker are clients with desparate money issues I reckon. That was not why we didn't get married though.

Jewellery is so personal. Inherited jewellery is so much about the previous owner and your connection to them. You don't have the connection to the ring per se only its previous owner. So if you don't like the style of the ring it is not easy to get rid of it because of the connection with its previous owner. What can you do with a ring you dislike but cannot get rid of? Nothing but put it in a treasure box with a number of other things in a similar position of being ungotridofable. If that was not a word before it is now!!

 

[Tengu]

<Nods>

And there is little new stuff worth having, -and the old is often sold by weight.

No value in being hand crafted, eh?

(What happened to the Ring, Paul-B?)

 

[Paul_B]

<Nods>

And there is little new stuff worth having, -and the old is often sold by weight.

No value in being hand crafted, eh?

(What happened to the Ring, Paul-B?)

My mum has it still. TBH my partner doesn't want to wear something that she doesn't like and she doesn't like jewellery!! Plus she's not marrying me (thank the big man upstairs). It was really just my Mum's way to get us to not live in sin. Fat chance! Even if we got married we would probably find another sin to commit!!

PS we're atheists so marriage means little to us. Besides I think I should be committed enough by now living with her and she with me.

No doubt it will go to my sister who likes jewellery even if she was married before my mum got it. Or to my niece or nephew. There might be quite a bit of jewellery involved if my relative really was a pawnbroker, I don't really know. I am happy that I just got a silver frame containing my dad's dad when he was the age I was when he died. That is the only family heirloom I have been bothered to get given. Apparently there was a similarity in how we both looked at about that age. the early 20s.