Hunting Season Green Maine Tourmaline & Diamond Ring

Hunting Season

Forest Green Trees – Silver Flash

Many years ago, a cross customer had been cleaning out a great aunt’s estate. She had many very fine pieces of jewelry. Within her jewelry collection was an old, perfectly preserved Cartier jewelry catalog. As one jeweler commenting on another jeweler’s designs, the 1925 Cartier catalog represented the finest collection of diamond jewelry designs I’d ever seen. Clean, classic lines, impeccable craftsmanship, ideal relationships of center to sides, grace, harmony, and balance, everything about the designs shown impressed us immensely. The customer gave us the catalog. We studied it closely. What impressed us most was the shape of the accent diamonds. We had never seen these shapes used in jewelry. It sounds like Cross is recommending the 1925 Cartier catalog; we are. They were and are a very fine jewelry store.

Back to our store and the ring shown in that nearly 100-year-old catalog. The side diamonds are referred to as bullet-shaped diamonds. The women in our store have told me we shouldn’t use the word bullet, but it is the name diamond cutters traditionally used for these sparkling-shaped gems. Bullet-shaped diamonds are not commonly used in contemporary jewelry and represent a rare touch of white brilliance at the side of our forest green Maine tourmaline center. This ring, in all platinum, is stunning.