Jewelry Collection Stories – Beth of RoCo Heirlooms – Gem Gossip
Today’s showcased jewellery collector is Beth of RoCo Heirlooms. Beth has an remarkable eye for antiques and her necklace stacks and charm combinations are out of this world! Speaking of out of this globe, her partner is a former astronomer so celestial motifs are 1 of her most loved issues to accumulate. I just love her private collection and so joyful to share it with you all right now – let’s dive in:
How extensive have you been gathering?
As with numerous collectors, I have liked jewellery my full everyday living and my mom experienced a amazing jewellery assortment. I very first turned intrigued in antique and classic jewelry when I was 13 several years outdated and my mothers and fathers bought me two antique rings for a distinctive occasion from a fantastic jewelry retail store in Baltimore, where by I grew up. I have been amassing jewelry additional critically given that about 4 decades ago shortly right after my mother died.
Describe some of your favored antique motifs that you gather.
I discover sporting jewelry incredibly comforting, and I like the notion that sporting jewelry is kind of like wearing armor—that jewelry can have protective characteristics. And so, I enjoy antique, vintage, and modern day items that have shields, protective hands, swords or armor. I really like celestial items mainly because they make me consider of my partner who is a former astronomer. And I like hearts and initials, primarily as they relate to my family.
What is it about jewellery that helps make it your passion?
I imagine jewellery is lovely, and I love the electricity I sense when I have on some thing that is stunning and that has unique indicating for me. I adore the treasure searching method and seeking for a seemingly challenging-to-locate, a single-of-a-variety piece that has huge symbolism and mixing it with the rest of my items.
Exactly where do you like to obtain antique jewelry? // Most loved position to treasure hunt?
When I initially begun seriously accumulating jewellery, I relished heading to vintage exhibits in the vicinity of the place I reside in Southern California, this kind of as A Recent Affair, Pickwick Classic and the Delmar Antiques Exhibit. As I have discovered much more about jewellery and located certain sellers whom I believe in, I have progressively bought more pieces by using Instagram.
Do you have any pieces that have an interesting tale at the rear of it?
A single of my most specific parts of jewellery is a appeal my mom gave me for my 30th birthday. She took the heart diamond from my grandmother’s engagement ring and had it established in a white gold swirl with a smaller sized diamond from my grandmother’s ring at the stop. The bigger diamond represents the moon the more compact diamond a star. It is intended to signify a expressing my mother normally advised me: “Shoot for the moon, if you miss out on you will be among the stars.” My engagement ring—a round diamond with French lower sapphires all over it (an Artwork Deco influenced focus on ring)—is connected to my wedding ceremony song, “Fly Me to the Moon.” The diamond to me appears like a entire moon floating in a dark blue sky. Curiously more than enough the underbelly of my engagement ring has a Greek important motif. Entirely unrelated, we finished up going to Greece on our honeymoon.
Most recent obtain … most sentimental piece…something you wear everyday
My engagement ring, my marriage band, my mother’s wedding ceremony band, a Victorian diamond double snake ring, and a few signet rings—two on just one pinky—one a retro Tiffany signet ring with an armored arm/hand, sword with “fortitude” in Latin and a diamond protect signet ring from The Moonstoned. The 3rd is an Edwardian, Tiffany platinum and sapphire signet ring with the first B carved into it. Sapphire is my birthstone, the first is for my first title and my partner calls me “B”.
