A ring leaves 9 Hatton Garden on a Saturday afternoon in a small box, with the receipt folded underneath it. The receipt records what was paid. It does not record what the ring would cost to replace in three years, and that gap is where most engagement ring insurance claims come unstuck. Smith & Green […]
The certificate in the seller’s hand is not proof of anything. That sentence is the whole article, and almost nobody buying a pre-owned engagement ring understands it before they hand over the money. A grading report is a description of a stone. It is not a chain of custody, it is not attached to the […]
The box has been in a drawer for 4 years. You have opened it perhaps twice. The ring inside belonged to someone you loved, and it is not a ring you would ever have chosen, and both of those things are true at once and have been quietly bothering you since the day it arrived. […]
