Some Jewelery to ID and to look at...

So, as I mentioned a few days ago, my friend who has all the clocks and furniture I posted, also inherited a few bags of costume jewelery as well as some gem jewelery. However, she was considering giving the costume jewelery to the thrift. I said, "WAIT! We had better have a look before you pass it on." Good thing, too. Some sterling items, a couple of gold chains and a gold ring with opals and diamonds. Imagine some picker's delight if they got those at the thrift!

And the amount of earrings that she had! Wondering if those would make a worthwhile lot for ebay? Yes? No?

I'll post a few pix in posts below. Thanks for the help!

 

Gold chains:


18k AND 10k?

 

Pearl necklaces. One is "faux" with larger and whiter-looking pearls while the other was a tad gritty on the teeth and has smaller pearls and creamier lustre, so I'm thinking those are "real" or "cultured."

 

Sterling, etched bangle bracelet and small Wedgwood pendant (from the 70s I think) and a Swarovski crystal cello pendant.

 

Forgot that the opal and diamond ring is pictured in the lower right corner. It is missing one opal (at about 2 o'clock position).

 

Sterling ballerina pin (British hallmarks in pic below) and a Mexican round pin (sterling, pic of mark below). There are 2 pins by the ballerina that have purple stones. The top one has sterling mount, the heart-shaped one has better condition stones/glass. To the right are some light purple earrings -- the pair with 3 stones each is sterling. I think that the pendant on chain in the middle may possibly be opals and a tiny diamond (maybe to match the ring).

 

Jade earrings -- pretty sure the tear-drop ones are genuine jade as the mounts are gold. The other 2 pairs, I'm less sure about. The turquoise-looking set has me puzzled. There is a pendant and matching earrings, but if you look, there is a scratch on a piece and underneath shows white. So, I'm thinking some sort of synthetic material, rather than turquoise. But the set it quite heavy.

 

Wedgwood jasperware pieces from that time frame generally have a two-digit number on the back that represents the year they were made.

 

The 3 bead necklaces are quite heavy, but the green-blue necklace is knotted between each bead and the beads feel cold and look glassy like a stone or crystal. Any idea what the beads are made of? The shiny black one with the little dolphin pendant might be hematite? The shorter one with the faceted gold beads looks like it might be vintage (no marks that I could see). Dunno if the purple earrings are supposed to go with the purple necklace (stone? glass?) but they do kinda make a set. I think that the octagonal pendant on the other bead necklace is soapstone. And finally, I'm wondering about the coloured glass bead necklace. Looks like they used two beads for each link.

 

That little heart looks Victorian. The pin stem is out further than the front of the pin. The "turquoise" is probably howlite; they often dye it blue. The 375 mark is 9K - a British standard. 18k is 750 and 14k is 585.

 

So, an assortment of "better" and signed costume jewelery -- Anne Kleine, Dorlan, Austrian crystal bracelet. Can't read the sig on the clasp (sorry for the blurry photo) but could it possibly be "Goldette?" And the sterling pendant with the blue stone -- that may be genuine turquoise, I think.

 

The green beads look like adventurine from here. The black is either hematite or hemalyke glass; I can't tell without taking a magnet to it. A magnet sticks to hematite, an iron ore. The gold beads are glass, I want to say early 70s, and probably German. The purple set looks like amethyst chip beads that were dyed to death. The octagonal piece is probably some kind of agate meant to look like jade. Heck, it might even be jade. The bezel set cabochons probably are two glass pieces per "bead".
That siggie is Goldette for sure. As for the Monet, I call it No Money. Napier is Nope-ier. Those fake pearls with that big gaudy clasp on the other hand. Do they have a signature?

 

And earrings galore -- all kitschy costume, but I may be wrong!

 

Miscellaneous stuff, finally! Interesting carved (plastic maybe) bead necklace, and some stone chip ones (one looks like tiger's eye) and I think large purple glass cabochon in the Scottish pendant. Couple of nice coloured glass bead necklaces, and some leftover findings -- polished stone, "jade" leaf, plastic purple diamond shape pendant and filigree maltese cross thing. Whew.

 

Finally, what, in your opinions, might be ebay worthy? And how would you group the stuff? Merci beaucoup!!

 

Thanks, Fig, I do know that, but I can't remember the exact date -- but IIRC, it was a 70s production.

 

The thistle brooch is Scottish-inspired for sure. Is it signed SolDor or Miracle? They made a ton of "highland" costume jewelry. Oddly I just bought a recent grouse foot pin; it's made from a real grouse foot. (icky but popular) I'd get a good look at the watch chain in the last shot at about 12 o'clock. I'd check the backs of some of those earrings too, just in case. Some costume earrings have gold backs. Check the black hearts and onxy and MOP necklace too; those often have gold spacer beads, or the good ones do.

 

Ah, thanks, Evelynb. I thought that the heart pin might be older. And I had forgotten "howlite." That's got to be it. And I obviously don't know my gold standard numbers, so thanks for correcting me!

 

I really have to invest in a loupe. All the pix were taken aboard our boat, LOL, so that's why they're not too good. I looked as closely as I could for marks. The gaudy fake pearls didn't appear to be marked. I'll see if my friend has a magnet to determine hematite or hemalyke (which I've never heard of!). Yes, well-dyed amythest chips -- very purple.

 

No marks on the Scottish one and I did look for Miracle. Might check again when I'm not on the boat drinking red wine! So that's a watch chain? I looked for a mark, but couldn't find one, but it maybe should be more closely inspected. Thanks so much for all the IDing, info and advice! Mille grazi!