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they better had been for that price! LOL... now I am sad you all hate me. NOT REALLY! we've been selling for 18 years... these big ones have been few and far between.

 

Of course we don't hate you!

 

Wow!!!!!!

 

Not the best deal but a "special find". This Spring I found a Lalique Turtle in a TS for $3.00. The Lalique name for her is Caroline.
Our ten month old twin Grandbabies are Joseph and Caroline. Guess who gets the turtle.

 

Unfortunately my first really great sale I no longer have the photos. It was the globe to an old ACL Railroad lantern. It was on a shelf lot that I paid $27.50 for & sold it for $2200.00.

I bought this framed Chinese tile as part of a table lot back in 2012. Thanks to someone on the old antiques board they helped me find similar pieces. I think the table it came off of was about $35.00 & I sold it for $3380.00.



This was part of the contents of a watchmakers work room. I sold this clock for $3635.00 which was more than I paid for the entire room. I am now well over 5 figures on the stuff & there is still more stuff out in the garage that I need to sell.




This thing was huge & very heavy. I originally listed for pick-up only because I had no idea how in the hell I was going to pack it for shipping. I ended up shipping it in 3 separate boxes with the porcelain face clock portion in one all by itself, the pendulum, which was about 12" across, in another & then the weights in a flat rate box.

Oh how I could use a sale like any of these right now. Hell, I would even settle for a measly few hundred dollar item.

Peggy

 

Bought years ago for $10 at a professionally run estate sale ... sorry for the horrible photos - (I was still very inexperienced at lighting and taking pic.s of 'stuff' when I shot this)

Woven yellow, white, and rose gold compact with sapphire push button clasp. It's missing a mirror, but is marked Hermes Paris 750, and weighs just shy of 7 oz ... it's just another pretty thing that I like too much to sell.

 

those were not professionals.....

but u were !!!!!

 

I've met loads of people who deal antiques for a 'profession', and some of the mistakes they make are pretty epic.

I daresay if you found a glazier, he could replace the mirror.

 

That one..in my mind...would be damn near unforgivable ..

 

What is?

 

Woven yellow, white, and rose gold compact with sapphire push button clasp. It's missing a mirror, but is marked Hermes Paris 750, and weighs just shy of 7 oz

It would take a loop & all of 30 seconds to find those marks on a heavy well made item like this......

 

But only if you're the seller. As a buyer I'd forgive a mistake like that all the way to the bank!

 

This was found in a large box full of papers and staplers and pens in an office above the garage (as if someone simply dumped out the drawers of a desk). They were focusing on the large room in the main house with literally thousands of pieces of jewelry ... you couldn't leave that one room without first paying for any pieces of jewelry. I think they considered most everything else outside of that room as just vintage 'stuff' and priced it as such. Their narrow focus was to my benefit.

 

What a fantastic find!!

 

I once bought a piece of beadwork at an antiques fair for £12, I was going to dismantle it for spare beads, It turned out to be part of a ceremonial regalia for a horse, the part that hangs down the front, It was C 1850 and native American Indian. I found a similar one in my World of Beads book.
I sold it for £200.

 

Wow & How!

 

i think he meant to say,we all envy you, lol.

 

Every once in a while.... I once scored a big platter at an estate sale. They thought it was a big piece of silverplate and still had it priced at over $100. It wasn't plated. I bought it, and flipped it to a pawn shop for $700. Unfortunately it was one of those engraved things and not in a desirable pattern. I would have gotten about the same if I'd sold it, and then would have had to deal with shipping, insurance etc ... and a scrapper. I'd like to find another one of those.

 

G.Nardi brooch. Customers Liz Taylor and various royalty. Found at Jumble sale with lots of other silver and costume bits, worked out at around 50 pence. Needs a ruby, no idea of value yet. So excited to find it!!
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