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I've been in love with Van Craeynest ever since Love In Bloom started the VC thread waaaaaaaay back in the day. I just figured I wouldn't get one of my own until much further down the line, for some milestone anniversary ... and then I was saddened to hear of their changing hands last year, because though I hope their new home in Redlands is tremendously successful, I always loved the image of their studio in San Francisco.
Which makes me even happier about having found a vintage set! I stumbled across them completely randomly on an auction site, and I think I spent all of 17 seconds thinking about it before I snapped them up - a 927 band, a 912 band, and its matching solitaire, the 812, with a head a'waiting the quarter-carat stone of one's dreams.
Duuuuuuuuuuudes. They are so beautifully delicate! Like the handiwork of the elves. The 812 and 912 are covered in these astonishingly detailed five-petaled flowers (through a loup, you can see the veins of their petals), with little diamonds after every third one, and the 927 looks a little more ... I don't even know what to call it. Stern? Utilitarian? Steam-punky? I don't know what it is, but the combination of four-petaled flowers with perfect stamens and neatly chiseled Doric column detailing between them is definitely striking.
I had the 812 set with a beautiful little green tourmaline I just had sitting around (with some help from my friends in RT and CS - hi, guys!), and I've been wearing them non-stop ever since. They're really wonderfully versatile: they look good all stacked together, with the matched pair flanking any of my bands, or mixed'n'matched with my anniversary ring and my assorted collection. Excellent on a cost-per-wear basis! I'm usually wearing the '12s flanking my big french cut band on my right hand, and the 927 stacked with my skinny french cut and my anniversary ring on my left. Though ... once I got a few more vintage treasures last week, the rotating decision process got a little tougher.
But more on that in other threads ... in the meantime, pictures!
Which makes me even happier about having found a vintage set! I stumbled across them completely randomly on an auction site, and I think I spent all of 17 seconds thinking about it before I snapped them up - a 927 band, a 912 band, and its matching solitaire, the 812, with a head a'waiting the quarter-carat stone of one's dreams.
Duuuuuuuuuuudes. They are so beautifully delicate! Like the handiwork of the elves. The 812 and 912 are covered in these astonishingly detailed five-petaled flowers (through a loup, you can see the veins of their petals), with little diamonds after every third one, and the 927 looks a little more ... I don't even know what to call it. Stern? Utilitarian? Steam-punky? I don't know what it is, but the combination of four-petaled flowers with perfect stamens and neatly chiseled Doric column detailing between them is definitely striking.
I had the 812 set with a beautiful little green tourmaline I just had sitting around (with some help from my friends in RT and CS - hi, guys!), and I've been wearing them non-stop ever since. They're really wonderfully versatile: they look good all stacked together, with the matched pair flanking any of my bands, or mixed'n'matched with my anniversary ring and my assorted collection. Excellent on a cost-per-wear basis! I'm usually wearing the '12s flanking my big french cut band on my right hand, and the 927 stacked with my skinny french cut and my anniversary ring on my left. Though ... once I got a few more vintage treasures last week, the rotating decision process got a little tougher.
But more on that in other threads ... in the meantime, pictures!
). My computer is being a jerk, so that's all for now, pic-wise, but more later ....
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