50 year old platinum bangle! nice story

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von

von

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Dec 19, 2006
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#1
Just wanted to share as i'm so happy today, my Nan is visiting me for a few days and today she gave me a bangle. When she and my grandad were first married he came across a piece of industrial platinum where he worked as an engineer. Grandad was always making things and decided to make 2 bangles from it for my Nan, he made one slim ish one and a very wide one.
he welded them and patterned them and then gave them to his friend to polish them, the wide one never came back to him and his friend said it had vanished.
many years later my nan was looking at the holiday snaps of these frinds and noticed his wife was wearing the bangle in one of the pics :sad: she still to this day hasn't mentioned it to her.
My grandad died when i was 16 and 13 years on i'm still missing him so i was so pleased that nan gave me this, i don't think i will ever take it off!
sorry its a bit long
 
#2
Enjoy wearing it...

as for the other bangle: That sucks, I hate that someone would steal like that and I can't blame her for never mentioning it.
 
#8
What a beautiful story (except the wide bangle part). I'm glad you have something that links your grandfather, your grandmother and yourself.
 
#9
chag said:
Ah, that's sad but also the little lady may have never known where it came from :yes: he may have just said he made it for her. None the wiser..
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Yea that's what I'm thinking!! Still sucks though!

I'm glad you are getting a great momento from your nan...your grandfather was very sweet to make that for her!!
 
#10
thank you everyone, i feel a bit teary eyed now, thinking about him a lot.

i never thought she might not of known where it was from, i'm going to stick with that as it makes me feel better, lol.

i will post a pic soon.
 
#13
von said:
thank you everyone, i feel a bit teary eyed now, thinking about him a lot.

i never thought she might not of known where it was from, i'm going to stick with that as it makes me feel better, lol.

i will post a pic soon.
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:yes: More than likely... I doubt he would ever tell her where it came from. He has probably lived with his shame for many many years
 
#15
Junkenpo said:
your nan is a lot more forgiving than i think i would be... !
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I agree. I would have made that man feel extra guilty now that her husband is no longer living.

I would think that having a bracelet for so long that was similar to a bracelet your friend has would have sparked a conversation about it if the woman truly didn't know where it came from.
 
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