A Diamond in the Rough

The Brunt Family went on a trip to Charleston, SC to visit Rex’s brother who was in the Navy and stationed on a boat there. One afternoon Rex found himself in an antique shop and stumbled upon a gold bow bar pin with what looked like COULD be a diamond at its center, but it was so dirty that Rex couldn’t be sure. That said, for $10 it seemed like a gamble he couldn’t lose either way.

When he made it back to Oxford, Mississippi where he was in school at Ole Miss, he took it to the jeweler on “The Square” who cleaned the piece and confirmed that the pin was indeed real gold with a real diamond at its center—making the pin worth around $120, which would be worth over $1,000 today.

Once he learned that the piece was indeed fine, Rex eventually gave it to his mother Charlotte as a gift knowing her love of bows, and knowing her love of scarves.

Charlotte used the pin to affix her Hermes scarves around her shoulders and kept this note pinned to the dust bag where she stored the pin as a reminder of her son’s good fortune in Charleston.

Shop the piece here: Gold Bow Bar Pin with Diamond