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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;komokwa, post: 986756, member: 301&quot;]Oh , I&#039;m so thinking about this too.</p><p>While cleaning up , my wife grabs my string of dug up antique Russian Blues and inquires as to what these pretty glass beads are.</p><p><br /></p><p>I go full art dealer and give her a lecture on NWC trade beads......but when I tell her what I paid for them &amp; why they reside on my night table ....her eyes POP !!</p><p><br /></p><p>Then she picks up a little basket with some tarnished silver items in it....as if there&#039;s nothing really there..!</p><p>Again I give her full disclosure that the &#039; stuff &#039; her husband has laying around is not to be taken lightly.</p><p>The basket....woven by one of our own members , holds...</p><p>an early Susan Point silver pendant</p><p>a 14 K gold Haida earring</p><p>2 late 1800&#039;s silver NWC thin cuff bracelets</p><p>2 cast silver Russel Smith pendants...one made specially for the cast and crew of the X-Files !!</p><p>There&#039;s well over $1300 worth of art there.....so again with the POPPING eyes !!!</p><p><br /></p><p>So , ya....it&#039;s high time I get hold on what I&#039;ve got and where I&#039;ve got it and what it is...... so someone else doesn&#039;t end up selling a little basket of tarnished metal items for $25 at an estate sale !!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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