billjustbill
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Precious Metal Found on Friday and Saturday
Friday's local newspaper listed 58 garage sales, plus many more that just put out signs..... Plus, there were 4 upscale neighborhoods that put in one ad, but had 15 to 20 individual garage sales. What I do really, really enjoy are the Neighborhood Sales! For a grownup, going to garage sales all in the same neighborhood is just like being a kid again and going from house to house "Treat-or Treating".....
The most I paid for one jewelry item was $1.00 for a flower necklace. The flower isn't stamped, so I didn't count it, but the necklace had the .925 Italy stamp. Is there any way to test if something is Sterling??
Then, at one of the neighborhood sales, I saw a plastic Zip-Lock baggie Marked for $1.00. I could see inside that it had a half a dozen pieces of jewelry. With my pocket magnifier I saw ".925" on the rope bracelet, but because the jewelry was inside the garage, the dim lighting was terrible and I couldn't read anything else...
The rest of the silver .925 pieces found Satruday morning were purchased for 25-cents each.
Weight of Alloy 74.00 Grams - 47.59 Dwts - 2.379 Troy Ozs
Alloy Silver of 0.925 Purity
Weight of Metal 2.201 Troy Oz of Pure Silver
Price Used 22.01 USD / Troy Oz
Value of Metal $48.44 USD
I actually ALMOST asked to buy just the silver rope bracelet out of that plastic baggie and leave the rest, but I was in a hurry and gave the nice lady the Dollar Bill for the whole thing....
When I got home, after looking at the sterling rope bracelet, I took one of a pair of earrings and saw the marking:
14kt..... .583 stamped on one, and then saw it stamped on the other.
Weight of Alloy 1.70 Grams - 1.09 Dwts - 0.055 Troy Ozs
Alloy Gold of 0.583 Purity
Weight of Metal 0.032 Troy Oz of Pure Gold
Price Used 1,318.75 USD / Troy Oz
Value of Metal $42.03 USD
Saturday I Spent $3.75 for $90.00 in Gold and Silver
In view of this being considered "Another Fish Story", below is a photo of Saturday's gold and silver finds. The silver is on the scales.
Above those 14kt. gold earrings are two unmarked pendants I pulled off their sterling necklace chains, also an Avon heart lapel pin, and a stretchy bead bracelet.
Friday morning I found the earrings for $5. The bottom picture are the morning's sterling earrings, and the afternoon's dollar coin, and both 10kt and 14kt gold I found Friday afternoon as I went though old costume jewelry laying on an old dresser at an Estate Sale: $15 for the two gold rings and herringbone necklace. 6.8 grams of 10kt gold in a ring and herringbone necklace, and a 14kt. ring that weighs 3 grams...
The Cross is unmarked, even though the slide was on the Herringbone necklace, I didn't weigh or count it in the totals:
Friday: Spent $20 for just over $200.00 in Gold & Silver
Friday's local newspaper listed 58 garage sales, plus many more that just put out signs..... Plus, there were 4 upscale neighborhoods that put in one ad, but had 15 to 20 individual garage sales. What I do really, really enjoy are the Neighborhood Sales! For a grownup, going to garage sales all in the same neighborhood is just like being a kid again and going from house to house "Treat-or Treating".....
It was great!! The most I paid for one jewelry item was $1.00 for a flower necklace. The flower isn't stamped, so I didn't count it, but the necklace had the .925 Italy stamp. Is there any way to test if something is Sterling??
Then, at one of the neighborhood sales, I saw a plastic Zip-Lock baggie Marked for $1.00. I could see inside that it had a half a dozen pieces of jewelry. With my pocket magnifier I saw ".925" on the rope bracelet, but because the jewelry was inside the garage, the dim lighting was terrible and I couldn't read anything else...
The rest of the silver .925 pieces found Satruday morning were purchased for 25-cents each.
TOTAL SPENT FOR ALL JEWELRY ON SATURDAY:
$3.25
$3.25
Weight of Alloy 74.00 Grams - 47.59 Dwts - 2.379 Troy Ozs
Alloy Silver of 0.925 Purity
Weight of Metal 2.201 Troy Oz of Pure Silver
Price Used 22.01 USD / Troy Oz
Value of Metal $48.44 USD
I actually ALMOST asked to buy just the silver rope bracelet out of that plastic baggie and leave the rest, but I was in a hurry and gave the nice lady the Dollar Bill for the whole thing....
When I got home, after looking at the sterling rope bracelet, I took one of a pair of earrings and saw the marking:
14kt..... .583 stamped on one, and then saw it stamped on the other.
Weight of Alloy 1.70 Grams - 1.09 Dwts - 0.055 Troy Ozs
Alloy Gold of 0.583 Purity
Weight of Metal 0.032 Troy Oz of Pure Gold
Price Used 1,318.75 USD / Troy Oz
Value of Metal $42.03 USD
Saturday I Spent $3.75 for $90.00 in Gold and Silver
In view of this being considered "Another Fish Story", below is a photo of Saturday's gold and silver finds. The silver is on the scales.
Above those 14kt. gold earrings are two unmarked pendants I pulled off their sterling necklace chains, also an Avon heart lapel pin, and a stretchy bead bracelet.
Friday morning I found the earrings for $5. The bottom picture are the morning's sterling earrings, and the afternoon's dollar coin, and both 10kt and 14kt gold I found Friday afternoon as I went though old costume jewelry laying on an old dresser at an Estate Sale: $15 for the two gold rings and herringbone necklace. 6.8 grams of 10kt gold in a ring and herringbone necklace, and a 14kt. ring that weighs 3 grams...
The Cross is unmarked, even though the slide was on the Herringbone necklace, I didn't weigh or count it in the totals:
Friday: Spent $20 for just over $200.00 in Gold & Silver
I used two different magnifing glasses, with one up to 16x power, but not even a scratch one could wish was a number.... The bail is silver-shiny, so I hunted down my magnet to see if the bail was magnetic... The bail followed the magnet with an odd amount of pull, so I turned the cross around so the bail was farther away only to see the whole thing stuck to the magnet.... 
(Double Sigh)... but at least the Herringbone is 10kt...
