Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer Weighing a light 1

Weighing a light 1

It is ornament and elegy in one

and made them the fashion of the day throughout the continent

These delicate earrings sway gently

It measures 30 x 26 mm and weighs 4

Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer Weighing a light 1There 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,