Featured Gorgeous Victorian 14k diamond + opal ring. Decision to make!

Chinese insect wax -- Interesting. I never heard of that!

 

I found that while searching about jadeite treatments! So I had to get some...
Non sticky as bee wax can be, and works wonder on lot of stuff... turtleshell, coral, plastics, treen, ivory, amber...

 

Where did you buy it, kyra?

 

I don't remember... it was from China years ago, I found an AliBaba link to same:
https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/highest-quality-Chinese-insect-wax-for_60610306222.html.
If you want, message me with your address and I'll send you some pieces, as I have much more than I use

 

I would absolutely keep that ring!!!! It's just too gorgeous to let go too quickly and then have remorse that you did!!! STUNNING!!!!!

 

Bet you were really looking for something to wax all your insects.

 

The design/construction of the opal ring puts me in mind of a ring I have:



The center stone is a lab grown color change sapphire, so ring no earlier than the 1940s.

 

Gorgeous ring spartcom .. so lovely !!! .. Keep It. ... Joy.

 

Please do what your heart tells you, but rings can be a bit of a hard sell and I think the offer could have been worse. (But I'm not an opal or diamond expert...)

I had purchased a group of drop dead fantastic rings a few decades back, paid to have them appraised by gemologist, all came in at over $2K appraisal per ring. Fantastic designs, three were 14K, two were 18K, gem stones and stunning settings. Former owner had money and wonderful taste, and rings were in a wearable size 7 1/2.

I could not move those on Ebay individually for $400. Started much higher, moved down to $400 fixed listing. Sat unsold for months.

Unlike a necklace, bracelet, or pin, with rings you are dealing with quarter sizes for a fit, and while you can resize a ring, there is a cost to the integrity of the piece, plus the $ cost of resizing.

So I think it was a somewhat fair offer, but like you said, if you don't need the money and still enjoy it, by all means keep it. Amazing it was in a scrap pile. It is a very pretty setting.

 

I have no thoughts on the ring itself, but my thought to sell/not sell is, "if not for financial reasons, why on earth would I sell something I love?"

 

I so want to learn your techniques. What does a four face nail buffer look like?

 

I know that! It's basically an oblong block. Different grades of buffer on each surface.

 

You can find them at most stores with the nail polish etc. They are fairly inexpensive & as OBB said above there are 4 different surfaces that go from coarse to smooth.

 

Hmmm. I'll have to find one on the net as I haven't seen anything like it in local stores.

 

I must have missed it, but I leave my nails natural and so I don't look too hard in the polish sections.

 

They're great for natural nails, they just add a bit of shine.

 

Here are the ones I use, bought this lot because if you polish metal the buffer face will become grey and color other materials you use it after... So several is better to be able to have one for each different stuff you need to polish/shine
https://www.amazon.com/Tinksky-Buff...d=1558625792&s=gateway&sprefix=nail+bu&sr=8-8

 

Thanks so much! You are a doll!