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THE RING FELL OUT OF HER PANTIES INTO THE TOILET; I GOT A DESIGNER BRACELET & A MERC
I found the bracelet at a yard sale; the attractive, twenty-ish young gal who owned it said it was from italy, and she'd been told it was in the style of ancient Roman jewelry. It was in a box of costume and junk jewelry, so I assumed it was fantasy too. She offered to sell it to me for $5. It had a name on it - Marcello Fontana - so I looked up the name on eBay, and found 9 current listings from $60 to $160 for this designer's pieces, but no recent sales. I didn't bother to look more closely at the listing titles or content, I just handed her a fiver.
Later I used a loupe and saw that the piece itself is marked 925, which indicates it is gold-plated sterling. The lobster clasp is marked 14/20, which indicates it is gold-filled, at least 20% of the total weight of the clasp being 14k gold.
I found some completed eBay sales by checking the feedback of the eBay seller. Other vermeil pieces by Marcello Fontana sold for $70 to $180. This was a nice find...and no digging!
The sale was in an old neighborhood, and a house on the next block caught my eye. I stopped to hunt the parking strip with my Spectrum Eagle detector, and found the 1941 Mercury dime, and the rolled penny.
Btw, the pretty young gal told me an amusing story. She related that she'd been drinking the night before, had gotten drunk, and had taken off her ring and slipped it into her panties for safe-keeping; she demonstrated, motioning with her hands, how she had dropped it into her panties. Later, she went to pee, and unbeknownst to her, the ring fell into the toilet. Another young lady who was staying with her as a guest and was with her at the yard sale, had discovered it in the toilet that morning.
I found the bracelet at a yard sale; the attractive, twenty-ish young gal who owned it said it was from italy, and she'd been told it was in the style of ancient Roman jewelry. It was in a box of costume and junk jewelry, so I assumed it was fantasy too. She offered to sell it to me for $5. It had a name on it - Marcello Fontana - so I looked up the name on eBay, and found 9 current listings from $60 to $160 for this designer's pieces, but no recent sales. I didn't bother to look more closely at the listing titles or content, I just handed her a fiver.
Later I used a loupe and saw that the piece itself is marked 925, which indicates it is gold-plated sterling. The lobster clasp is marked 14/20, which indicates it is gold-filled, at least 20% of the total weight of the clasp being 14k gold.
I found some completed eBay sales by checking the feedback of the eBay seller. Other vermeil pieces by Marcello Fontana sold for $70 to $180. This was a nice find...and no digging!
The sale was in an old neighborhood, and a house on the next block caught my eye. I stopped to hunt the parking strip with my Spectrum Eagle detector, and found the 1941 Mercury dime, and the rolled penny.
Btw, the pretty young gal told me an amusing story. She related that she'd been drinking the night before, had gotten drunk, and had taken off her ring and slipped it into her panties for safe-keeping; she demonstrated, motioning with her hands, how she had dropped it into her panties. Later, she went to pee, and unbeknownst to her, the ring fell into the toilet. Another young lady who was staying with her as a guest and was with her at the yard sale, had discovered it in the toilet that morning.
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