Voyage to the Bottom of the
Sea
More of Storm's Jewelry
Storm recently rounded out her set of Voyage jewelry with two very special
pins. These new pieces, as with those on previous pages of this
section, were created by Don Israel of Creative Jewelers in Fort Smith,
Arkansas. Following is additional background from Storm on the creative
process of these pieces.
The pin with Seaview and
dolphins is Don's and my equivalent of the Navy's
dolphins for the Seaview. It would be worn on the
left breast of a shirt above the pocket just like the
Navy's submariner's dolphins. One difference
between this pin and the Navy's is in the size, with a
Navy pin being larger. Also, the Navy pin is solid
gold for officers and solid silver for enlisted
men. The dolphins are made of gold, the
Seaview white
gold.
The wheel is a
collar pin. If you noticed on the show, except for the
Admiral, the officers only wore a Navy rank pin on just
one side of their collars (real navy has two, one on
each side) and had a different pin on the other side.
Since I never could come up with a good shot to show
what that pin actually looked like, except to tell that
it was something inside a ship's wheel, Don and I
designed our own. What we thought it ought to be. The
eight stones in it are simulated emeralds.
As you can see, the wheel pin
is about the size of a quarter. (This also matches the
ring) As with the ring and necklace, these were all made using
the lost wax casting method.(The pins on the show were just
gold colored, without any gemstones) The Seaview in the center is
done in white gold just like the Seaview in the dolphin pin. --
Storm
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