Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 costume like wind-carved rock

like wind-carved rock

Whether as a romantic gift or a personal treasure

from horseshoe for luck to hearts and birds for love

and because religion was such a deep part of European and British life

shifting hues of an opal sea

Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 costume like wind-carved rockThere 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,