Featured My latest addition to my antique earring collection

Many ( not all) of the jewelry aficionados I've picked next to in the last 40 years have been fairly focused (intense perhaps) people.Not ruder than other dealers-but with a lasered technique,like Coin,Stamp & Watch folks.
I have seen some get pretty heated with each other,I just step back.

 

Ah yes, the sellers who don't know what they are selling. My favorite every once in a while I get lucky. Then you have the ones who do indeed know what they are selling, sometimes for 3x the value and you are like

 

As one of my friends used to say: God bless their little cotton socks.

 

I'm happy when I rob from a Pro,and most ecstatic when said 'Pro' is an arrogant know-it-all who 9 times out of 10 is overpriced.Many of the dealers with the stuff I want could care less if they sell anything.I always wondered if they'd married a Neurosurgeon or had inherited some of the Getty Trust.

 

Woohoooo! Gooooood!!!!!

 

Yeah! @Kasemi please, join the crosses post and show yours!

 

We don't get many 'grouse foot brooches' over here in Oregon,maybe a rabbit's foot or two-not many with a gold sleeve.About as common here as an Anglo Saxon Helm in Granny's privy.

 

Here you go. A Scottish grouse foot.
Mine is very unusual as most are silver. Dated by the good folks on here to 1880 or a bit earlier. Bought to sell but it still seems to be in my hoard!!

 

Well you can't grouse about a foot like that when you only paid a tenner mate-bob's yer uncle old chap!
Quite attractive really.