Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer two snakes coil together in

two snakes coil together in an eternal knot

Weighing a light 1

a gem so bold

typical of the period

and entirely wonderful

Edwardian Platinum Old European Cut Diamond Cluster Engagement Ring, c. 1915 Designer two snakes coil together inThere is a moment, quiet, breath held, electric, when a question asked in love meets its answer. I imagine this ring at the center of such a moment in Edwardian England: a winter afternoon, pale sunlight filtering through mullioned windows, a young woman turning toward the man she has waited for a moment longer than propriety would admit. He offers her a small leather box; inside, this extraordinary cluster of fire and lightsimple in form,