billjustbill
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The month of April has had gold and silver each week. A community sale and a street sale had some surprises, today.
The 14kt gold necklace was found at a professionally run estate sale the first week of April. It was mixed in with costume jewelry. Weighing 2.3 gr. ($70), it cost a dollar.
The small baggie at a community sale last week. Remember a 1980's jewelry fad called "Add-A-Bead" where you added a gold bead or a birthstone bead? I found that the add a beads were very very thin and one can simple crush a 14kt gold bead with your fingers as a "quick and dirty" way to know it's likely gold. Crushed or not, it still weighs the same on the refiner's scales...
The beads with a texture made from crimping flutes in each bead made it where you couldn't do that. Here is 3.8 grams of 14kt. ($95) beads for a dollar.
Today, I bought the 925 bead necklace. It weighs just over 28 grams, but the core cable strand appears to be a coated metal, so conservatively I'm allowing 21 grams, the $10 in silver....cost a dollar.
Also, my wife talked to a lady at a single street neighborhood sale where one of the owners said she had a bag of jewelry and would call her if she found. Usually, those type of promises seldom pan-out, but an hour later as we sat eating a late breakfast in a town cafe, the lady called. We drove back across town to see the 8" tall by 5" wide thick plastic zippered bag half full. She took $15 for all the costume jewelry that also contained a ladies Pulsar watch. Getting settled back at home, mixed inside was a tangled-up nightmare ball of necklaces. Twenty minutes later, the one on the scales below was the thin 14kt. necklace with an unusually heavy alphabet pendant. The pendant is stamped: "A.B. 14k" and together both weigh 7 grams ($175)....
The other side of the street had this handmade shadow box. A folk art glass frame with a company display sheet of 36 flies by Hank Roberts of Bolder, Co. The lady said she'd take $5 for it. I can't seem to find this layout, would you know some dates/history or possible value?
Treasures of all types are out there....
Bill
The 14kt gold necklace was found at a professionally run estate sale the first week of April. It was mixed in with costume jewelry. Weighing 2.3 gr. ($70), it cost a dollar.
The small baggie at a community sale last week. Remember a 1980's jewelry fad called "Add-A-Bead" where you added a gold bead or a birthstone bead? I found that the add a beads were very very thin and one can simple crush a 14kt gold bead with your fingers as a "quick and dirty" way to know it's likely gold. Crushed or not, it still weighs the same on the refiner's scales...
The beads with a texture made from crimping flutes in each bead made it where you couldn't do that. Here is 3.8 grams of 14kt. ($95) beads for a dollar.Today, I bought the 925 bead necklace. It weighs just over 28 grams, but the core cable strand appears to be a coated metal, so conservatively I'm allowing 21 grams, the $10 in silver....cost a dollar.
Also, my wife talked to a lady at a single street neighborhood sale where one of the owners said she had a bag of jewelry and would call her if she found. Usually, those type of promises seldom pan-out, but an hour later as we sat eating a late breakfast in a town cafe, the lady called. We drove back across town to see the 8" tall by 5" wide thick plastic zippered bag half full. She took $15 for all the costume jewelry that also contained a ladies Pulsar watch. Getting settled back at home, mixed inside was a tangled-up nightmare ball of necklaces. Twenty minutes later, the one on the scales below was the thin 14kt. necklace with an unusually heavy alphabet pendant. The pendant is stamped: "A.B. 14k" and together both weigh 7 grams ($175)....
The other side of the street had this handmade shadow box. A folk art glass frame with a company display sheet of 36 flies by Hank Roberts of Bolder, Co. The lady said she'd take $5 for it. I can't seem to find this layout, would you know some dates/history or possible value?
Treasures of all types are out there....
Bill
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