Old mine cut melee for antique-style eternity bands is especially hard to source

Small old mine cut stones needed to complete an antique-style eternity band in volume are far scarcer than a single larger old mine cut stone, making full antique-style bands a genuine sourcing challenge.

• An eternity band needs a run of well-matched melee-sized stones cut in the old style, which was never produced at the volume needed to fill a full circuit of a modern ring.
• This is a different, harder problem than sourcing a single old mine cut centre stone, where reproductions can fill the gap more easily.
• Most antique-style eternity bands built today use modern melee cut to imitate the old mine look, since assembling enough genuine antique melee is rarely practical.

If genuine antique melee for a full band matters to you, expect a long sourcing timeline and be open to a partial-authentic design instead. Contact us to discuss what's realistic for a specific piece.