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Necklace Details

Name: Love Lock Paris

Style#: G3092

Precious Metal: 14K White Gold

Gem: SparHawk Maine Tourmaline = 7x7mm antique cushion-cut (1.75 carats)

Gems: 38 Diamonds = .17 carat total weight

Measurement: 13/16″ (from top of bail to bottom of necklace)

Chain: 18″ 14K White Gold

Price: $3,250

 

Size, Weight, and Price

We make two Love Lock Necklaces:
A) Love Lock Paris
B) Love Lock Portland

The Love Lock Paris is bigger, it’s center gem is cushion-cut and weighs just under 2 carats. The Love Lock Portland is smaller and round, the center gem is under 1 carat. Both are beautiful. Obviously, the bigger gem costs more.


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Love Lock Paris, SparHawk Maine Tourmaline & Diamond Necklace

Style #: G3092

 

Love locks really took hold in Paris, lovers committing to one another with one of a thousand different locks. The lock with initials, a date, a heart or two penned in, sometimes engraved. It started on the bridges spanning the Seine. The lock attached to the fence, a kiss to seal the deal. Keys tossed over the railing.

Sentiments accumulated, keys piled up on the bottom of the river six feet down. Photos taken of the locks were sent around the world. Then lovers around the world began looking for fences and bridges over bodies of water to mark their eternal devotion.

Paris, France

 Love Locks Paris, France

Love locks date back to WWI, but really became famous in the early 2000’s, in Paris. Lovers committing to one another with one of a thousand different locks with initials, a date, a heart or two penned in permanent Sharpie marker, sometimes engraved. It started on the bridges spanning the Seine. The lock attached to the fence, a kiss to seal the deal, keys tossed over the railing. The photo above is of one of those Parisian bridges.

Portland’s Rescued Love Lock Fence

 Love Locks Portland, Maine

Here in Portland, we had a fence fronting Commercial Street between two piers that extend out into the harbor. With the news from France coming in, at first there were a dozen, then a hundred, then thousands of locks attached. The fence was meant to protect people from falling into the harbor. The weight was gaining by the day and was becoming potentially too much for the fence. The City Council acted, determined that at some point, one more lock, and the whole fence would tumble into the harbor on top of thousands of keys.

People’s Security was Considered

Articles were written in the newspaper. People protested the loss of their love lock fence. A new unlock-able fence was designed and proposed with a promise that a section of the original fence with its locks would be saved. That promised section is now down on one of the piers next to a piece of the original Berlin Wall.

The picture above is of our rescued Love Lock Fence. As a work of art, it is beautiful.

Love Lock and the Deeper Meaning

Love lock. We’ve been choosing mates for thousands of years. We see, we talk, we hang out. We become attached, we agree to see each other again and again, and before we know it we’re a couple. That want, that need, that desire to be with one another is so powerful. The trip home, when we have been away, where the speed limit is 65 and we give it a little more gas to 68 or to 70 or 72 to be home just a little bit sooner because we look forward to having an extra minute, two, three together.

Hundreds of moments, thousands of touch points. Breakfast, the same newspaper and coffee. The words spoken, really nothing, and yet precious… wouldn’t miss even one breakfast for the world.

When years become decades, and decades become a life, a lock on a bridge on a fence becomes unnecessary and yet you get it, the pure sweet sincerity of youth.

So what does a Love Lock say? A lifetime of words, a lifetime together, a lifetime of love promised. It says things that words alone cannot fully express. you think back and know your lock is there, on that bridge, your words written in black permanent marker. The lock slipped in through the wire: cinch, click, lock. You look at her. She looks at you. The key tossed. Nothing written here begins to capture what really happened. Words can be so imprecise.

The jeweler steps into the room, copies the idea in precious gems, and gold. He understands because he too has been there. He also knows he can never know what it was and is between you two.

If you have ever put a love lock on a bridge or fence, or if you missed the opportunity, there’s always another chance…a Love Lock with a precious gem to be with her always.

The Cross Love Lock

We had a jeweled Love Lock last year with a big blue natural earth-mined sapphire. It was beautiful. We had just one. That would be like having a bridge over a river and saying we have one spot for one lock on the bridge. Yes, we got some feedback on our one sapphire. Comments like, “Would you ever consider…” “If you ever…” “It would be nice if…”

Big beautiful cushion-cut sapphires of exactly the right size. Impossible, absolutely impossible. Then one more sapphire just happened along. We said why not and designed another Love Lock mounting to fit. We got smart this time and made a master lock for other gems, other colors. Our favorite, a genuine Maine gem from our newest currently active mine – SparHawk mint-green-teal Maine tourmaline, bright, brilliant, from the Western mountains of Maine. The gem is cut right here in Maine by Sean Sweeney of Bar Harbor. And because SparHawk is an active mine, we can cut more.

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Necklace Details

Name: Love Lock Paris

Style#: G3092

Precious Metal: 14K White Gold

Gem: SparHawk Maine Tourmaline = 7x7mm antique cushion-cut (1.75 carats)

Gems: 38 Diamonds = .17 carat total weight

Measurement: 13/16″ (from top of bail to bottom of necklace)

Chain: 18″ 14K White Gold

Price: $3,250

 

Size, Weight, and Price

We make two Love Lock Necklaces:
A) Love Lock Paris
B) Love Lock Portland

The Love Lock Paris is bigger, it’s center gem is cushion-cut and weighs just under 2 carats. The Love Lock Portland is smaller and round, the center gem is under 1 carat. Both are beautiful. Obviously, the bigger gem costs more.

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SparHawk Maine Tourmaline

Now to the gem. It’s a native natural gem of Maine, SparHawk mint green teal Maine tourmaline. It’s from a gem mine 28 miles north of our store, cut by a Maine Irish guy who is totally obsessed with gem precision and perfection. There is symphony and harmony in the balance and flow of light within the gem. It’s color and brilliance whispers Celtic beginnings.

I’d like to go back 3,000 years and show the ring to one of my ancestors. They would get it. They’d understand. I’m absolutely certain they and everyone around would all approve of the ring, and if I said to a group of Celtic villagers my minimum price is 16 sheep, two rams, and 3 oxen, there would be stiff competition among all assembled.

Gem Find of a Lifetime Video

World Famous Discoveries

 

Treasure Trove of Gems

I’ve always dreamed of a gem find like this. To have this mine be so close to home, just 28 miles north of our store in the mountains of western Maine, is amazing. Gems so fine, so pure, with colors so vivid. It’s important someone documents this historic gem find here in Maine, because it’s a history-making discovery in the world of gems.

The video above is 1 minute, 43 seconds. It gives you a good idea of the excitement we feel for the gems we are discovering here in Maine.

Maine has been world-famous for the tourmaline gems mined here for over 200 years. The geology in our western mountains has yielded a treasure trove of world class gems. Cross Jewelers has been the Maine state leader, bringing fine Maine tourmaline jewelry to all of America for over 100 years.

We have over 200 pieces of Maine tourmaline jewelry from both the SparHawk mine and other Maine mines.

 

Maine’s Crescent of Gems

Consider this…If they found a tourmaline mine in 1820 that is still producing today; if they found $50-million worth of tourmaline on Plumbago Mountain in 1972 and thirty-seven years later, struck Eureka Blue tourmaline 250 feet away. What else is waiting to be found in Maine’s Crescent of Gems?

The SparHawk Tourmaline Mine is Just 25 Miles North of Portland

This is about the Silver Dollar Tourmaline Pocket

Saturday night.
Standing in line to buy a theater ticket. Phone rings .Voice says “this is Jeff, we hit a pocket this afternoon, thought you might like to come up.” I said “What time?” He said “8:30.”

Sunday Morning at the mine. The Silver Dollar Pocket
Day breaks gray, over cast 64 degrees, humid. Later, spots of blue sky appear. Some sun with shifting shade. First photographs of SparHawk Tourmaline and Watermelon Crystals and a 1924 silver dollar for size reference. After that the day just kept getting better.
A small crowd gathers, a scientist, a gem cutter, a jeweler, and five of the state’s best gem miners, drifting in and out throughout the day. Some stay all day. Sounds: jack hammer separating rock. Sounds: mine pump water washing rock and rubble clean. Every one looking for color. Talk: speculation. Talk: certainty. Talk: crystals held to the sky. Talk: wonder. Sounds: dogs barking, dogs running with sticks. Young guys working, old guys watching.

June 8 & 9, 2013

At the SparHawk Mine

As the day progressed the sky cleared and the gem mining proceeded. It was an awesome day.

 

 

On Another Day
I Was the First One There

I arrived at the mine early. I was not sure if I had misheard our meeting time or if Jeff was late. I liked the sense of space, the openness without any other consciousness to interfere. The space felt different than my years of visits with other people around. Thinking minds are so powerful that one can feel others’ thoughts guided by arrows and pre-established pathways. Here with nothing but cliffs and trees, it was just me with a pen and paper. I am not alone but free to see and sense.

I heard a plane take off from the airport several miles away. I heard the wind in the pines and spruce, faint and up high. The cliffs that surround, the rubble that litters, and the rock below are all frozen in time. I’ve seen what this place produces. I’ve seen the crystals loosened and pulled from the white clay. I’ve listened to the people who come for the unveiling. I’ve heard their gasps; I’ve seen their wonder. This moment, on this mountain, may be as close as anyone ever gets to true magic in their earthly existence. – R.H.P.

 

A Treasure Trove of Gems
Found Under the Road

We know we are lucky. We know that any jeweler in America so close to a buried treasure of gems would be so excited to have treasure so close and to have the opportunity to acquire cut gems and then offer finished jewelry to the public. It would be like a gift from heaven. The crystal shown above weighed 62 carats. The person holding the crystal is Sean Sweeney, who is America’s best tourmaline cutter. He was there that day at the mine. He excavated this gem from under the road leading into the gem mine.

 

 

The Cross Maine Tourmaline
SparHawk Collection

Yes, we have over 100 pieces of SparHawk Mint-Green-Teal Maine Tourmaline jewelry on our website. All of our Maine tourmaline was mined in Maine and therefore never has had a tariff. There will never be a tariff or duty imposed on any of our Maine tourmaline gems.

 

 

He Didn’t Know It at the Time…

His purchase of the land and this
lost gem mine would make world history.

Jeff bought the land. His original intent was for house lots. His research showed that a hundred years before, it had been a successful gem mine. So successful, it made national news for the tourmaline that had been found there. Others came, searched, and found little-to-nothing. Because he was in the foundation business, he had digging machines, had trucks, and knew about blasting rock and how to move rock. He decided on weekends to do some amateur exploring. He worked on and off for several years. Then he hit a soft place in solid rock that was filled with tourmaline, it was a fine green color with an open c-axis. The c-axis is jeweler talk for an outstanding property that makes the gems shine extra bright. If that was all that he found his discovery would have made the Maine gem mining history books, and his discovery would have been told in stories of legend and lore a hundred years later.
With this initial success, Jeff continued the search. Over the next dozen years he opened gem pocket after gem pocket. We, Cross named his new tourmaline color SparHawk Mint-Green-Teal. The open c-axis allows light to do some truly magical things.

 

Choose a Piece of Jewelry
From America’s National Treasure

Many Americans are choosing one of our own national gems. We are fortunate to be so close to Maine’s tourmaline mines. The gems are beautiful. The jewelry we create is exquisite and comes with our solid Cross Guarantee for performance and beauty.

Our goal is to make your selection easy and shipping a breeze. We ship to all of America – Fast, Safe, and Free.

 

 



 

Additional Information About Gems
From the SparHawk Tourmaline
Mine in Maine

A.   Read the 32-page written story of one gem mining season at the SparHawk mine.

B.   See seven videos showing gem mining at the SparHawk tourmaline mine . Running time: over 1/2 hour.

 

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