Featured This is what happens when it's too hot to haggle

Sunday was STEAMING. Ended up eating me sausage and chips in the car with the aircon full blast.

Clearance bloke had a box of bling, and I couldn't be faffed to go through it, so I crossed his palm with thirty sovs.

The result is as follows. The best thing, I shall get a photo of separately. A Schoffel Austria brooch!

There was also a nice silver brooch, the DoSo bracelet, some silver chains.... about a hundred bits in total.

 

And here's the Schoffel and a Halley's.

 

Gorgeous! But what's a sov?

 

London slang for a pound! Short for sovereign.

 

Forgot about those! (And is it the guinea that there isn't really any of?)

I still have a fistful of the heavy money from my first trip to England. I brought it home to demonstrate what a racket is made when one is in an elevator with TWO men who are change-in-the-pocket jigglers. Eegad!

 

Cor blimey. I can't believe me mince pies me old china.

 

Wonderful bunch of bling Owned! Congratulations!

 

That ONE brooch is worth way more than the whole swag!

 

I have added it to my my bling radar.

 

It was what made me want the box. I could see quality, then saw the mark when I rummaged at home.

 

I love when that happens!

 

Is DeSo an English company? Never heard of them here in the US. What a great batch of bling you got!

 

They’re German, made by one of the pforzheim companies. Anything from there is lovely quality always.

 

Love a box to rummage in! Great finds

 

Thanks for the info!