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Message:: [QUOTE="catdeco, post: 226923, member: 4420"]My mom gave me a ring that was given to her by my paternal grandmother about 45 years ago. I had it appraised by a licensed gemologist, so I know a bit about the stones and gold band, but I know nothing about the origins of it. It's a gold ring with an 585 stamp (14k in the US), which leads me to believe it's from Europe. It has both mine cut and old European cut diamonds, and scratched up synthetic emerald in the center. There are also initials engraved on the band, but they're unintelligible from wear. Now here's the interesting info:<ul> <li>The emerald has a chip in the corner, within the setting. The gemologist flat out said that it was not the original stone.</li> <li>My grandma was a Holocaust survivor who lived in Poland (now Belarus) pre-war, but I highly doubt that if she had this ring then, that it would not have been taken by the Nazis like all of her family's other belongings.</li> <li>I ALSO highly doubt that she acquired it after the war when she was in a DP camp in Germany; after that she came straight to the US.</li> </ul>It's possible it was a gift from my grandpa to her, and it just happened to be a European ring, but I don't think my grandpa would have bought her a ring she didn't like, and the sizing would have been too big for her fingers (8.5! I had it resized to a 4.25 and it still slips!) SO. Any ideas? [ATTACH=full]67931[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]