Emerald engagement ring (was: Me: bride-to-be) ?
Q.i was looking at tourmalines for my engagement ring also, but had a hard time finding nice green ones that weren't chrome. i didn't like the chrome color personally, although it is a very intense green that is beautiful. i ended up with a diamond...(0.91 princess cut with two 0.21 trillions on either side, on a wide band, as wide as the princess cut. i get lots of nice comments on it.) it was tough looking for a non-traditional stone--no one wants to sell you a tourmaline for an engagement ring, and they try very hard to convince you that you "don't want" what you just told them you wanted. it was just the start of not-so-subtle wedding pressures from retailers.
A.My enagaement ring in a diamond with two round emeralds to either side. John got me this because: 1) emerald my birthstone and 2) we wanted it to look like a flower. When we were dated a silversmith came to our old school, and he had a silver and agate (his birthstone - June (bet you didn't know that)) that look like a flower. John got it for me. When he was getting my engagement ring he wanted something to remind us of that hence the diamond and emerald flower ring. Our wedding bands have engraving on them that look like stylized leaves. Al.., I don't know for sure :-( I don't own any emeralds, and am just parroting what I heard from my favorite jeweler when briefly discussing emeralds several years ago. I know that they're oily stones, and that if you put them in absorbent things like cotton it will suck the oil out of them leaving them brittle. I know it is a common practice for jewelers to upgrade the appearance of emeralds by forcing dyed oil into the impurities to make them less noticeable. (They do lots of stuff like that--like baking rubies to make the red deeper and all sorts of other things that sound a bit fishy to me!) I have no idea what effect hand lotion would have, other than to surmise it's pretty unlikely to dry the emerald out ;-) I suspect a dish detergent, especially one formulated to attack grease, might be likely to dry it out, but the truth is I really don't know. Maybe a call to a reputable gemologist would net you some better information, or maybe someone else out here on the 'net will know.
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