This 'rings' a bell with me too
I was deemed at a suitable level of maturity and responsibility for the heirloom, and got given a ring that had been in my family for a while, I forget how long, when I was 15, it was silver, with a blue stone in the middle - might have been sapphire but I really can't remember; surrounded by marcasite.
Would never have picked this out myself, but I LOVED it, was so unusual, I wore it heaps.

Sadly to say, it went "walkies" in the 2 years after. I haven't been able to tell my mum since, I'm still gutted when I think about it years later (yeah, get over it . . . ?).
I've no idea where its gone, but horrible as it sounds, I recall being 'close' friends with quite an untrustworthy person (as it turned out to be) who often borrowed it to wear, and, I'd quite like to be wrong on this . . . but who knows
(maggotriddendirtbox fast, feral and sharp as a tack since, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 9:03, 1 reply)

Ah crap
here's to hoping that it's just lost in a drawer somewhere
( Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 11 Nov 2008, 11:04, closed)