Monday, November 25, 2024

My mothers engagement ring

I thought I should document that I found the box that holds my mother’s engagement ring.  I had forgotten all about it because I had hidden it away for safekeeping, then I happened upon it.  When I tried, the ring fit so it will stay with me now. 

I checked online and I could buy a similar vintage Birks jewelers bell-shaped silver box for $295CDN.  Wowzers!  My father always had expensive tastes (on a beer budget mind you).  They married in 1952 in Goose Bay Labrador (Canadian Air Force Base).  I think my dad was stationed in Bagotville before going to Goose bay so he might have purchased the ring in Montreal where Birks Jewellers began.  Maybe they even had a store in Quebec City but I don’t know. 

I used my Blackwing pencil, Violet Blue Prismacolour and Gold for colour. 


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