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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 206278, member: 51&quot;]We&#039;ve got an ice storm in progress and I&#039;m stuck inside. (Lots of time to write.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Every January there is a one-day indoor garage sale at our fairgrounds, $3 admission, 90 booths, almost all the sellers are dealers who have booths elsewhere, getting rid of inventory, etc. In general you aren&#039;t going to find some under priced treasure because for the most part people know what they are selling, additionally word is that all the dealers shop the other tables as they are setting up. The fairgrounds also offers an “early bird entrance” during set-up the day before at 3pm for $30. I did pony up for that one year, but decided that for $30 it wasn&#039;t worth it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But the sheer volume of booths and items makes for a great winter&#039;s day $3 outing and I have it on my calendar every year.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 2 weeks ago, thanks to a post I saw on the Ebay jewelry board, I started educating myself about Saphiret. This is a type of glass – sapphire colored glass mixed with gold which takes on kind of a brown/blue hue, popular mid-19th century and beyond. I&#039;m sure many of you reading this know exactly what it is/looks like but I&#039;ve never found any, nor did I know what it was before 2 weeks ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I decided Saphiret would be a good thing to be on the lookout for at this indoor garage sale, honestly it seems like the kind of thing a lot of people don&#039;t know about.</p><p><br /></p><p>My first purchase of the day was at a booth I stopped at right away, something or another caught my eye, and the first thing the seller says is that they are just putting this bunch of jewelry out that they &quot;didn&#039;t have it out for the early-bird sale” etc. Could have been a line, but seemed plausible, there were some interesting things. I got that Edwardian collet necklace ($5) and two other necklaces I will post later for ID help. I saw this cross, but at $15, hesitated. 1) Crosses don&#039;t seem to sell that well. 2) The cross looked sort of looked newer to me in a way. Almost a modernist design. 3)The chain also looked newer to me, Italy 925.&nbsp; I almost passed on the whole thing, but looked at the cross again –under the fairgrounds lighting, it looked mostly like clear rhinestones, but there was something about the way it reflected that made me think, okay -looks a bit unusual? Alright I&#039;ll take it.</p><p><br /></p><p>All day didn&#039;t find any Saphiret. Honestly at the end of the sale I realized I forgot to even look for it! Such was the mayhem at this event. Hundreds of people, crazed buyers, fun but exhausting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Got home and took my purchases out. All of a sudden I look at the cross. What? Sort of brown/blue --oh my goodness, Saphiret! If I&#039;m correct about that, dumb luck <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie98" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>...Now for the questions and photos.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cut and look of the stone makes me think older (Saphiret rather than Sapharine?) Is the setting older? Also one stone looks bluer than the others which I feel was a replacement, from the back looks like at that spot there was a repair. Thoughts on age, etc. appreciated!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]59710[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59711[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59712[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59713[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59714[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59715[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]59716[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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