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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 307062, member: 2844&quot;]Your grandfather sounds like a very interesting person, I would love to have known him, and no doubt he would have been a great addition to the forum.</p><p>I was thinking about the ring overnight (it is morning now). A very nice distraction when you can&#039;t sleep anyway.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Looking at the photo Bronwen cropped, I was wondering about the chip on the side of the sapphire, where the side support meets the mount. That is an unusual spot for a chip, that part is protected by the setting. It looks like the stone was taken out at one time, possibly for the ring to be resized.</p><p>If the ring was kept as a collectible, that certainly would suggest history before your grandfather acquired the ring.</p><p>Nowadays jewelers often freeze a stone, so it doesn&#039;t have to be removed while working on the shank. I don&#039;t know when jewelers started freezing gemstones to work on an existing jewel, maybe [USER=1496]@Hollyblue[/USER] knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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