Wonderful Saturday Morning Silver & Gold Score by Accident

[bigcaddy64]

Just like the title says, I was out making my usual Saturday rounds and in between sales, I happened to stumble across many more that were not marked online.

One sale in particular was an estate sale and I was the 2nd parson to attend. The first guy had a piece of silver jewelry or two so I went to look for more and found the mother lode. He completely missed the hidden compartment in the bedside jewelry box that was stuffed with silver and gold, including (2) 10k football charms from the late 30s. There were some silver necklaces rings, cuffs and a 14k bracelet. All of the flatware came out of the kitchen and living room.

All said and done, I picked up 500g+ of Sterling (17 ounces), 5g of 14k and another 9g of 10k.


The book is “The Secret Life of Salvatore Dali” and the other 2 hardcovers are worth a bit but I’ll read them first. My improvised carry container is a beautiful Wagner Ware cast iron pan which I’ll clean/season this weekend and give it away for a Christmas gift. It’s so caked with old grime you can hardly read the name so it’ll need a long soak in my lye bucket but they come out beautiful when restored properly.

 

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[Heavygold4me]

What was your final cost?

 

[TORRERO]

Just like the title says, I was out making my usual Saturday rounds and in between sales, I happened to stumble across many more that were not marked online.

One sale in particular was an estate sale and I was the 2nd parson to attend. The first guy had a piece of silver jewelry or two so I went to look for more and found the mother lode. He completely missed the hidden compartment in the bedside jewelry box that was stuffed with silver and gold, including (2) 10k football charms from the late 30s. There were some silver necklaces rings, cuffs and a 14k bracelet. All of the flatware came out of the kitchen and living room.

All said and done, I picked up 500g+ of Sterling (17 ounces), 5g of 14k and another 9g of 10k.


The book is “The Secret Life of Salvatore Dali” and the other 2 hardcovers are worth a bit but I’ll read them first. My improvised carry container is a beautiful Wagner Ware cast iron pan which I’ll clean/season this weekend and give it away for a Christmas gift. It’s so caked with old grime you can hardly read the name so it’ll need a long soak in my lye bucket but they come out beautiful when restored properly.

Yeah man don't leave us hanging ... 🚼😭

 

[TORRERO]

Several years ago I hit a garage sale with tons of costume jewelry but after digging through it I got a 30g 14k gold chain, a couple of gold rings and maybe 40 grams of Silver jewelry, she told me $5 and I left... later my family member's were pissed at me for not offering them more... knowing the true value of what I had found...
What would you have done ?