Tide’s Edge Ring
If you had told me at age 7 that decades later, the time this seven year old spent in the tide pools, knee deep, studying limpets and periwinkles, waiting for the waves and the advance of the tide, that a much older version of himself would intimately know Maine tourmaline and be making rings in gold with accent diamonds, and writing about the seven year old, the seven year old would toss a live crab at you and say, “No way!”
As a kid I lived at the ocean during summers. The following are thoughts about the hundreds of hours spent at the tide’s edge.
Somewhere at the edge of an August beach of your childhood, a tide pool shimmers in the summer heat, its cool, clear water surrounding your ankles. Beneath its surface, starfish, sea urchins, and tiny crabs dream mysteries of the deep.
As a kid I spent my summers on a white sand beach on the coast of Maine. There was a tidal river with saltwater marshes at one end of the beach, and cliffs, rocks and tide pools at the other end of the beach with a quarter mile of white beach sand between. From my youth I have walked the tide line many hundreds of times feeling the pulse and flow of rise and fall, wind and waves, and spent hundreds of hours in the tide pools at the cliffs.
Tide pools were bath tub to swimming pool-size, walkable, wadeable, sometimes swimmable, real world aquariums with starfish, sea urchins, limpets and lady slipper shells, kelp and seaweed, fish, crabs, and baby lobsters. They were places of endless fascination. We often stayed so long we would be there as the tide came in and flooded into our water world with cold, fresh Atlantic saltwater.
The Tide’s Edge Ring is the advancing edge of the tide line as it sweeps in across sand beach and rock lined shore side pools. We place a colored gem in the center with two accent diamonds on either side.
We make the Tide’s Edge ring in three sizes:
Small is 6x4mm oval
Medium is 7x5mm oval
Large is 8x6mm oval
Ring sits low, close to the finger for comfort. It’s smooth to the touch. Gems are recessed, secure. It’s an understated, classy, classic design.
Green Maine Tourmaline
There is a wide range of green shades in Maine tourmaline, all of outstanding beauty and brilliance. In the 1800’s Maine was the preeminent world source for exquisite green tourmaline. Even today, the finest greens from Maine can go head-to-head with the best green tourmalines found anywhere in the world.
Tourmaline: A Maine Story, An American Gem
