Featured Beautiful brooch- Potter mullen

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  1. Laura1969

    Laura1969 Active Member

    I know an appraiser is going to charge me an arm and a leg to look at all of these. I would be so appreciative to just be pushed in the right direction on what I should pay to have appraiser and what is most likely costume jewelry.. 9B1484D0-1423-4638-A0B3-D6D1FF0B1E64.jpeg 4722C6F7-0CDC-486C-A887-F382EC6F8233.jpeg 844A7D3C-CDA7-4EA2-88B4-D36628202795.jpeg
     
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  2. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    This is much higher quality than the marcasite piece. The maker is "Potter and Mellen". Might be 14K.
     
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  3. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Wow, it is a beauty. I don't know Potter and Mellen, but that is a gorgeous Australian white opal (not milk opal!), so not costume at all.
     
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  4. Any Jewelry

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  5. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    Could the name be Potter Mellen and a real opal?
     
    Hollyblue, Oct 16, 2020
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  6. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    @Laura1969
    Please research tips on choosing of a reputable appraiser. Never use an appraiser that offers to buy something. Not to insult you if you already knew that, but many people don’t.
     
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  7. Lucille.b

    Lucille.b Well-Known Member

    This is excellent advice as many of the pieces you have posted seem pretty high end, and will want to try to get market value for, if selling. (I may have missed this, were these pieces part of an inheritance?)
     
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  8. Laura1969

    Laura1969 Active Member

    I will take all the advice you can give me. I don't want to sell any of my mother's things but I would love to know their worth..
     
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  9. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Wow! Never heard of Potter and Mellen, kudos to @Lucille.b !
    @Any Jewelry and @Hollyblue followed as "short of a neck" in this race!

    Laura, your brooch is a beauty:woot: high gold carat and colorful vitreous enamel, what is the measure of the piece?
     
    kyratango, Oct 16, 2020
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  10. Laura1969

    Laura1969 Active Member

    Almost 2" x 1.25"
     
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  11. Laura1969

    Laura1969 Active Member

    @Lucille.b Yes, my mom passed away. Her mother owned an antique shop in the 70' and 80'. I think many of these things were hers.
     
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  12. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Woahhhh! :woot::woot::woot: you have a monster piece;):)
     
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  13. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    And Laura, post anything you want that you think is costume, some costume pieces are worth more than fine jewelry!
     
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  14. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    Looks 18k to me.
     
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  15. Rec

    Rec Well-Known Member

    crack at the bottom seems strange to me. is this a real stone?
     
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  16. antidiem

    antidiem Well-Known Member

    Yes, Rec, it appears to be a real opal to me. Opals are very soft. I cannot see it coming through to the front. :cat:
     
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  17. Rec

    Rec Well-Known Member

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  18. Hollyblue

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  19. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    It looks like the back of Laura's opal has some of the matrix stone in it, that is where the cracks are. That could be why it looks different from crazing in opals proper.
     
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