Featured Earrings age and description.

Sorting out a few things to sell in Auction next month, (hopefully it will help pay the upcoming power bills). These are likely a car boot find.
I’m feeling a bit foolish as I can’t decide if the pearls are faux or not because they are slightly gritty and coolish but not as cold and gritty as I would expect. The stones are glass. 1cm diameter. The screws are marked 9ct and the rest I think is silver and I thought maybe Victorian because of the style. Any info please? Thanks.

 

How do they feel against your teeth?

With the stones being glass, faux pearls are likely. Good quality though, I can't see any chipping or rubbing. Glass and other non-precious 'stones' set in gold isn't unusual, especially in older jewellery.

I think they are a bit younger than Victorian though, but old enough, and very nice.
I will leave a more exact dating to the Brits, since they are more familiar with UK jewellery.
Good luck with the bills, hope these sell well.

 

Thanks AJ, fingers crossed.
They are faintly gritty, I might have to leave it up to the Auctioneer catalogue lady. I thought I might put them in as a lot with the Georgian mourning pendant I found a few months ago as they look good together.

 

Hm. I think the screws are younger than the dangles.

My mama had pearl and paste earrings like this, they were 40s.

Nice pendant.

 

Those pearl dangles and the backs didn't start life together, methinks. That mourning pendant is really nice; an auctioneer ought to be able to sell the heck out of it. Or would here, but we don't have as much mourning jewelry.

 

Thanks. The earrings are a bit of a mystery, I’ll see what the lady says and maybe she will say better to sell them separately.
I’m hopeful the pendant will improve on the £20 I paid for it

 

No idea; here it would at least double up if there's any justice.

 

I often wonder if it’s worth selling some pieces at auction but I always shy away from the huge cut they seem to take.
If you don’t mind me asking, is this something you do regularly?

 

I never took the EBay plunge, it seems risky and fraught with pitfalls and hassle so I decided to take the Auction route and I take note of the recent complaints here about EBay and Etsy.
The Auction house I use takes 15% plus £3 cost per lot. Takes me 40 minutes to drive there but because I buy from the Charity shops and Boot fairs and Jumbles there’s usually a decent profit for me and likely for the buyer too. I will weigh any gold, add 15% and the £3 and a bit extra to set my reserve and hope some things fetch a lot more. If the gold doesn’t sell for my reserve it’s only cost me £3 and I can take it to the local jeweller who pays me scrap weight. I usually pay very little for my things, that Georgian pendant above and the recent lava cameo I bought are the exceptions.
That said I don’t sell much, I’ll do a Vintage Fair where I sell the costume jewellery and clothes etc from time to time but I get very tired now. I’ll sell non jewellery bits via Gumtree and FB.
Have you ever had your fingers burnt with a valuable piece via EBay?

 

I sell at a couple of local auctions. £1.50 lotting fee, ten percent commission; one of them does a £1 lotting fee. Prices are surprisingly good at them.

I also pick for a couple of people whose selling profile I know really well, and sell the odd bit on specialist Facebook groups.

 

See, that sounds reasonable.
I’ve just looked at our two local auctioneers. Moore Allen are £10 + 15%+ 1.5% insurance and Cotswold Auction House are £5 per lot plus 15% plus £5+ photography plus VAT plus 1.5% insurance. Robbing gits.

 

Flaming heck that's a lot. I'd expect that for a high end place that gets serious money. I sold a couple of things through Tooveys, who were excellent, and one through Roseberys. also decent. My little ones expect you to do your own photos, which is fine.