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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 400608, member: 51&quot;]Are the girls old enough to be careful with these newly acquired pieces?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The girls took maybe a couple hundred rings</i></p><p><br /></p><p>You might want to double check to see if any of the rings are gold</p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>They likely took the best brooches as well to make into necklace pendants...Piles of necklaces(some were quite elaborate looking)</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>Certain costume designers, Schreiner, Miriam Haskell --just a short list, can sell in the hundreds (sometimes a thousand+) for brooches and necklaces. Mostly the elaborate multi-colored over the top signed rhinestone pieces. Also wondering if there might have been any fine jewelry in the mix since the jade and sterling set were overlooked.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if the girls are old enough to be careful and <i>not</i> deconstruct items (wasn&#039;t sure what &quot;making them into necklace pendants&quot; meant...) it might be nice for them to know what is what.</p><p><br /></p><p>Could you possibly go through the girl&#039;s pieces, maybe make it a game of identification? And see if any are signed?&nbsp; Or just look at the truly over the top pieces you mentioned and look for signatures?&nbsp; The pierced earrings are probably not worth too much, unless gold, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; It might just be nice for the girls to know which pieces to be a bit more careful with.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the 2nd photo of clip-ons, not seeing anything too valuable.&nbsp; Maybe a nicer pair of rhinestone ones, but even those are probably worth less that $20.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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