Featured QUICK QUESTION!!!!! ON A NECKLACE ???

Hi all! I of all people know you don't like to do values, but need a ballpark figure if anyone is willing to help me out here!!! Am giving this necklace (an outline of Block Island) as a gift, which also could be made into a pin, and have had it at least 25 to 30 years! It is 2 and 3/16" in height and you can see the weight on the scale......it is also marked 14K on the back with the maker's initials.....Whom I knew of. I believe he is/has long since passed on. Just curious what you would consider a decent value?? Thanks for any and all help!!

 

$333.33. Unless some famous designer name attached.

 

The gold calculator I used is giving $366, but, basically, not much more than meltdown, unless, as anund said, it's the creation of someone whose name alone commands $. Think an outline of Block Island would be of interest to too few people for that aspect to add much value. If B.I. is sentimental to intended recipient, there's that.

 

Thanks so much Bronwen & Anund! That's generally what I was interested in....the maker's name was Oscar J Berlin....he came to the Island and became a Taxi driver who also dabbled in making jewelry on the Island, and told what we all believed were tall stories about being related to Irving Berlin!!! Some of his pieces were very nice.....like this one, but some, I personally didn't like at all!!!!!

 

If you're giving as a gift, not sure value matters. But I do think there would be added value for a jewelry item (especially a pendant so closely associated with Block Island) by Oscar Berlin. After all, someone just paid $24.99 + $3.66 shipping for the charm below. If it were mine and I was eBaying, I'd list for $500 (assuming a $366 scrap value) and expect to find a buyer. Block Island, like Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is a fairly high end summer resort and there are families who holiday there/sail there generation after generation. And I doubt his pieces come onto the market very often. JMHO. Other's may differ.

https://www.blockislandtimes.com/article/obituary-oscar-joseph-berlin/31869

Debora

 

What a fascinating man!

 

AMAZING!!!!! Somehow, we totally missed that Oscar had died back in 2012!!! We also don't get the B.I.Times consistently either! Thank you, @Debora for finding that.....maybe I wasn't using the right key words to search for him, as I found basically ZIP on him!!! Haha! We also never, well, once maybe.....took a taxi!!!! AND that song he sang??? "Smilin' Through"? That's the house my family owned for nearly forty years and was more 'home' to me than any home we had ever owned growing up as we move so much!!! But Smilin' Through was always there. THAT was hard to see go, BUT it was my parents retirement plan, so the rest was history. Looong story but not needed here!!! No, the gold Island is a Christmas gift to a niece who adores the Island!!! It will be well loved!!! I'm SO glad you found the info!!!! Thank you again!!!!!

 

That's some gift. Lucky girl. Sure she will treasure it.

Debora