When my grand mother died, she left me a beautiful and strange antique amethyst bracelet, having many picturesque stories. The amethyst bracelet is the only object that is following our entire family story. It is in our family for generations, as many antiques bracelets are, and this is the reason why it is saved for posterity. This bracelet come from the old world, form the country named today 'Czech Republic'.
This amethyst bracelet was the only valuable thing that the family had. Her diary was spoken about this beautiful and valuable amethyst bracelet, which her mother used to wear only when she was inside the house. The grandmother used to wear it on her wrist like this for fear of loosing it or having it stolen by someone anywhere else.
My grandmother's earliest memories were about the sun reflecting in a magical way on this antique bracelet's amethyst. Her mother was wearing it when she was rocking on the old creaking rocking chair; the family was in a village three days walk from Prague.
The strange and valuable antique bracelet went back even farther than that, all the way to the marriage of my great great great grandmother. The family was very rich once, and the antique amethyst bracelet was a wedding gift to my ancestor by a noble duke.
The family was so rich that she controlled once a half of a fertile and rich region. My ancestor rode proudly on a horse, admiring all the land she possessed, this antique amethyst bracelet being one of her beautiful jewels, decorating her slender, beautiful wrists.
But the rich and large region she possessed was making some neighbor fight to take it all. It seems that the antique amethyst bracelet was lost for a while, during that difficult time. Great site related to jewelry http://www.thejewelrydelivery.com. The family's story has a sad time, the manor was burned down, the family's components were killed and only a few survived. One of my ancestors become obsessed finding the antique amethyst bracelet, and spent days and days digging around the ruins to find it, until the precious antique amethyst bracelet return into my family's possession.
It was a dangerous action, since the enemy was trying to find the survivors to put them to death. My ancestor's family lost the battle and now their possessions were conquered. The opposite family forced my ancestors to hide, for long time. So, forced by this terrible pursuit, they become peasants, just like everyone else back then. The beautiful antique amethyst bracelet remained like a beautiful memory of the splendid old times, a souvenir and a treasure. |
