Ring Details
Name: The Gull
Item#: G3587
Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold
SparHawk Maine Tourmaline: 2.89 carats (9.8×7.8mm Twilight-cut)
Diamonds: 8 = .41 carat total
Ring Sizing & Delivery Time – The majority of our rings are size 6.5 to start. Remarkably, this size fits 30% of all women. If you would like this ring made to a specific size, we generally ship within one week of your order. Click here to see how long we are currently taking to size a ring.
When you checkout online, we provide a real-time expected delivery date. Because of the value, and that you must sign for the package, we will call or email you when we are ready to ship to ensure a smooth delivery.
If You Need the Ring Faster – simply select in the finger size selection box “No Sizing Yet, Ship Right Away”. We will ship the ring in its present size. You will have your new ring in a few days, boxed, bowed and ready for presentation.
After receiving your ring, if you find it needs additional adjustment, give us a call and we will mail you a special free set of ring sizers and a prepaid return label to send the ring back to us for final sizing. Read more about ring sizing.
The Gull SparHawk Maine Tourmaline & Diamond Ring
Style #:
G3587
I grew up summers on a white sand beach. We had a dock and boats. Our 18-foot Lyman Morse white lapstrake motor boat, with mahogany trim and deck seats, was our preferred mode of transport because a pull of the cord on the outboard and we were on our way in minutes. At high tide, we could go fishing. At high tide, we could go wave jumping. At high tide, we had two primary islands, we could go to Richmond’s Island with five landing places and sand dollar hunting. Or, we could go to Stratton Island with one landing place and a thousand gulls.
Stratton Island
I’m going to focus on Stratton Island because it was further away and it always felt exotic. It had a shipwreck from the 1930s and had a thousand screaming gulls. This was the 1950s, before environmental consciousness. Stratton was a nesting island. As our boat approached, the gulls would take to the air, flying, screaming, and calling. We would arrive with the sound of waves on the rocky shore. Gulls’ nests sat on open rocks on the high beach. Eggs were spotted brown with camouflaged colors. The island had a pond and the ruins of an old beach stone house. I have a black and white photograph that I took of myself at age sixteen with a beach stone pillar in the background. I had a full head of dark hair and sunglasses. This was a moment in my life; it felt like the peak of perfection. Sixteen-year-olds are invincible, vain, but invisible. We explored the island dozens of times, always searching for treasure with the soundtrack of thousands of gulls everywhere we went.
The Gull Ring
Was Born on Stratton
So, back to seagulls. The nests were close, a foot or two apart, scattered everywhere with bits and pieces of twigs and straw. Homes so basic, it was just a sketch of an outline to keep eggs from rolling away.
My sense of gulls with outstretched wings, the sounds they make, hovering just a few feet above comes from our trips to Stratton. Today, 60 years later, we respect their gull island and honor their space. Our Gull rings have wings and the diamonds are white feathers.
The gem in the center always varies. This gem is special. It’s a SparHawk mint-green-teal Maine tourmaline from the new tourmaline discovery 28 miles north of our store. The gem is a twilight cut, a signature cut of Sean Sweeney, America’s greatest gem cutter. Sean has passed away, and this now is one of the rare Sweeney cut gems of our SparHawk mint green teal collection.
The twilight cut is one of the newer forms of cutting gems. It’s a series of vertical lines on the back and horizontal faceting lines on the top which slice and dice light in magical ways that create a light performance aura. It makes a great center to any ring, but especially the Gull ring.
Ring Details
Name: The Gull
Item#: G3587
Precious Metal: 14K Yellow Gold
SparHawk Maine Tourmaline: 2.89 carats (9.8×7.8mm Twilight-cut)
Diamonds: 8 = .41 carat total
Ring Sizing & Delivery Time – The majority of our rings are size 6.5 to start. Remarkably, this size fits 30% of all women. If you would like this ring made to a specific size, we generally ship within one week of your order. Click here to see how long we are currently taking to size a ring.
When you checkout online, we provide a real-time expected delivery date. Because of the value, and that you must sign for the package, we will call or email you when we are ready to ship to ensure a smooth delivery.
If You Need the Ring Faster – simply select in the finger size selection box “No Sizing Yet, Ship Right Away”. We will ship the ring in its present size. You will have your new ring in a few days, boxed, bowed and ready for presentation.
After receiving your ring, if you find it needs additional adjustment, give us a call and we will mail you a special free set of ring sizers and a prepaid return label to send the ring back to us for final sizing. Read more about ring sizing.
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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 1:43. 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.
Two options for deeper Maine gem mine understanding:
A.) The 32-page written story of the 2013 gem mining season at the SparHawk mine.
b.) A collection of gem mining videos at the SparHawk mine.
About the Trade Wind Collection:
Where does inspiration come from? Where do the creative sparks for design begin? For Cross’ new Trade Wind Jewelry Collection, we find ourselves drawn into the story of Captain John Henry Drew, from Gardiner, Maine. Born in 1834, he grew up the son of a Ship’s Carver, and went to sea at the age of 15, eventually becoming Captain of a series of clipper ships, and traveling from New York to China and back home, when that voyage took more than seventeen months.
Instead of carving or knotting or other hobbies that were characteristic of sailors, this mostly self-educated man read books, memorized details from newspapers, and wrote about his journey—his literal and his inner journey. His hand-written and personally illustrated journals tell us of his longing for Maine, for his family, and for “making something of himself”. He is very much like you and me, and it makes his story that much more compelling. He savors apples from home, as tasting better than apples from anywhere else. He imagines the scene he might see looking in the window at home, where his family sits, and he chastises himself for not getting more done at home when he was there.
The jewelry in our Trade Wind Collection is made by his great-great-great grandson, Keith. This young man went to sea as well, at age 18. As part of his service to the US Navy, his travels took him to many of the same places his great-great-great grandfather’s clipper ships visited. Keith also had a hobby unconventional for sailors— he had a fascination for gems and he studied gemology. He studied so that when his service was completed, he could become a jeweler. As Keith traveled the world, he collected exquisite gems, and after leaving the service and returning home, he mastered the art of fine jewelry making.
It is now decades later. We met Keith for the first time in March, 2014. We were impressed with his jewelry, and as we talked further, discovered he had a clipper ship sea captain ancestor and became intrigued with the parallels of his journey in life with that of his sea captain forebear.
The parallels in the two stories are expressed in the jewelry itself—the exotic colors, the flow of the designs, the attention to detail which is something passed down in this family—whether it is to protect the ship, its cargo and its crew, or to create a design that will last and protect its valuable gems, giving the wearer the same pleasure we experience when a ship at full sail goes by. You can’t help but stop and exclaim, “Isn’t that beautiful?”
We were hooked by this story, and by the jewelry. We think you will be too. In fact, we’re posting pages from Captain Drew’s journals from the Voyage of the Franklin in 1868. Take a few minutes to join in the journey, and think of those you love most, and rejoice if they are right there with you.
Read the Captain’s
Clipper Ship Journal Entries
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