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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 10274068, member: 36"]One group I forgot about, and that I overpaid for, and one that made up for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the first, the green heart is Sphinx; the beads were added later by somebody, but they look OK enough to leave. The corals are coral. One sterling bracelet is scrap, it's not finished well, but the other is James Avery. The earrings look and feel like dried orange peel. The bracelet wants to be amber but..not so much. </p><p><br /></p><p>The second one? Ding! Ding ding! Dingdingdingding! The pierced earrings were duds, one stuck to a magnet and the other has paint-backed rhinestones, but the rest was a jackpot. The hollow cross and chain are 14k. So is the chain on the cameo. Between the three the scrap value was $800 yesterday. The cameo is Romeo and Juliet or similar, about 6cm tall. Sterling European style horseshoe pin and earrings with glued rhinestones. The green pin is Kramer; the blue one is lesser quality and unmarked. The blue wreath set has a stone out, which I've got. The Christmas pins were going to be tossed; one is missing it's back and the tree is missing a stone and no longer lights up. The cross has two people's names engraved on it and the chain isn't that great; it's headed to the scrapper. Total price paid....$20 including tax. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]515158[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]515159[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 10274068, member: 36"]One group I forgot about, and that I overpaid for, and one that made up for it. In the first, the green heart is Sphinx; the beads were added later by somebody, but they look OK enough to leave. The corals are coral. One sterling bracelet is scrap, it's not finished well, but the other is James Avery. The earrings look and feel like dried orange peel. The bracelet wants to be amber but..not so much. The second one? Ding! Ding ding! Dingdingdingding! The pierced earrings were duds, one stuck to a magnet and the other has paint-backed rhinestones, but the rest was a jackpot. The hollow cross and chain are 14k. So is the chain on the cameo. Between the three the scrap value was $800 yesterday. The cameo is Romeo and Juliet or similar, about 6cm tall. Sterling European style horseshoe pin and earrings with glued rhinestones. The green pin is Kramer; the blue one is lesser quality and unmarked. The blue wreath set has a stone out, which I've got. The Christmas pins were going to be tossed; one is missing it's back and the tree is missing a stone and no longer lights up. The cross has two people's names engraved on it and the chain isn't that great; it's headed to the scrapper. Total price paid....$20 including tax. [ATTACH=full]515158[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]515159[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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