Jewellery News

Ninety years after a seaman passed away, his engagement ring was found on the seabed near Orkney. Two divers found it and traced the seaman’s nephew and handed the ring to him.

The engagement ring belonged to Stanley Cubiss who was on board a warship when it ran aground way back in 1918. There were 188 men among the crew.

All that was written on the ring was: ‘To Stanley from Flo, 6 March 1916’. Now we wonder how these two divers – Peter Brady and Bob Hamilton managed to trace the seaman’s nephew on the strength of that inscription.

His nephew, who is almost 80 years old, donated the ring as well as other memorabilia like medals and photos to the Scapa Flow Center which is on the island of Hoy. There are a few pieces there that were recovered from the two warships that sank in that area – HMS Opal and HMS Narborough. These artifacts will also go on display with the other items.

You don’t want it lying around reminding you of how he ditched you, do you? Once the guy has flown, it’s time to get practical. At least that’s what most of the Agony Aunts would tell you. And there’s a great way of doing just that right now.

The site’s called exboyfriendjewelry.com. You can go, sign up for free and hawk your diamond engagement ring there. Or even any other jewellery that he might have given you while he was still in love with you.

There’s just one condition though. When you post a picture of the engagement ring or bit of jewellery together with a description of the item you want to sell, you have to post a story of how things went bad. Get to that site and you’ll find many a story up there – it’s a great place to vent and get rid of your anger and frustration. It’s a great place to read about others’ stories too – some sad, some angry, some funny. And of course, it’s a great place to get rid of any memories of the one who hurt you.

A few days ago, an article in one of the UK newspapers set one thinking. Do guys really notice things like diamond engagement rings and wedding rings? Well, the writer of this article felt most men don’t. They don’t look at rings on the fingers of their wives, on celebrities, on mums, on strange women.

Now we wonder if that’s true. Is it only women who are so concerned about engagement rings and wedding rings? We don’t think so. Many men might be totally oblivious to the rings on women’s fingers, yes. But there are quite a few, the romantic ones who do notice – who take the trouble to choose the best ring going, to even design the special rings they give to the women in their lives. As for the rest, as long as women notice what other women are wearing, as long as they go, ‘oooh’ and ‘aaah’ over a fabulous diamond engagement ring, diamonds and rings will really be forever!

Nahla Ariela Aubry – a beautiful name for a beautiful baby. And the beautiful mother, Halle Berry was seen out with her at the Los Angeles zoo and they were both having a great time. What was intriguing to those who saw her there was the fact that she had a huge sparkler on her wedding ring finger. Was it an engagement ring?

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry, who is ten years younger than her, have been together for three years. The beautiful Oscar winning star and the good-looking model could well be thinking of marriage now that they have a daughter and such a little stunner at that. Well, if that is really a diamond engagement ring and not just another ring, then we wish all three of them the very best!