Engagement and Wedding Rings

Here is the receipt for a purchase by Mr. S. Korchinski at J. Alex MacKenzie Limited Jewellers on August 31, 1962, followed by the diamond certificate. (Marcy and Stan married on November 10, 1962.) Apart from the serial number, there is very little information on these documents to describe the diamond, which is too bad because Marcy's engagement ring went missing around the time of her death.

We might ask a jeweller to make sense of this receipt. I can see the registration number (M5719) and the price ($975.00 less $175 plus $40 tax...). What do you think 1.27º means? Could that refer to the carats? I couldn't find anything on Google saying the degree symbol would refer to carats (it is usually ct). And less than a thousand dollars for a diamond that size seems very low, but the quality isn't mentioned. The word after that looks like "Prom" - could it be "Prong?" And below that, what looks like "Aellow" - could that be "Yellow?" Whatever it means, it resulted in a discount of $175.00. My thoughts are, this could refer to a ring if it were a 1.27 carat diamond, prong-set in yellow gold. Or, maybe it is a yellow diamond (which doesn't necessarily look yellow to the naked eye, it may just refer to a poorer colour diamond; the further from colourless/ideal you get, the more yellow it is) and "Prom" means something else...One of the aunts mentioned a yellow diamond; did she mean a lower colour quality? I certainly don't remember Marcy's diamond as looking yellow.

I'm just curious whether this is the solitaire that is missing and I mis-remembered how it looked (I always thought it had three diamonds on it at least, with the middle one being the big one). I remember yellow gold, the aunts remember a yellow diamond, Trish said she was certain it was white gold...Memory is not very reliable!


Here is the receipt for Stan's wedding band, purchased on October 20, 1962, also from MacKenzie's Jewellers:

The following document is for the eternity ring that Marcy acquired in South Africa on September 11, 1987. I am not sure if it replaced a plain wedding band, or if both wedding and engagement rings were upgraded/re-set at that time. Nobody seems to know or remember. I am still hoping to find more receipts among her papers. The eternity ring had five equal-sized diamonds, as clearly documented here, and was awarded to Trish upon the settlement of the estate (less one diamond, which Doug purchased to hand down to his daughter, Anna).