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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 11300180, member: 29"]It’s still out there. I’ve an accomplice who frequents car boots and such with me, and she’s literally got a nose for gold. She also sometimes grabs stuff for no good reason she’s aware of and then shows me it. She got Georgian paste earrings that way. Me, I tend to look for quirky, obscure and I’m more interested, almost, in historical pieces than precious metals and stones. Doesn’t mean I don’t crow when I find those though. </p><p><br /></p><p>She who sold me the shells and flapper is a nice woman, but she misses things. She knew it was flapper, but still sold it cheap. Raids her mother’s house and finds bits, and also buys at car boots and resells herself. I think she’s happy with a quick ish profit. I had an Italian 18 carat framed cameo from her once, she’d missed the marks. </p><p><br /></p><p>I found a Peranakan belt earlier this year. I need to post it for shangas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 11300180, member: 29"]It’s still out there. I’ve an accomplice who frequents car boots and such with me, and she’s literally got a nose for gold. She also sometimes grabs stuff for no good reason she’s aware of and then shows me it. She got Georgian paste earrings that way. Me, I tend to look for quirky, obscure and I’m more interested, almost, in historical pieces than precious metals and stones. Doesn’t mean I don’t crow when I find those though. She who sold me the shells and flapper is a nice woman, but she misses things. She knew it was flapper, but still sold it cheap. Raids her mother’s house and finds bits, and also buys at car boots and resells herself. I think she’s happy with a quick ish profit. I had an Italian 18 carat framed cameo from her once, she’d missed the marks. I found a Peranakan belt earlier this year. I need to post it for shangas.[/QUOTE]
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