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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marko, post: 220287, member: 210&quot;]I love that yard owl!&nbsp; That necklace is very-well made and stunning, Evelyb.&nbsp; The last jar of stuff I got at a thrift for $20 was very profitable, but when they had another one the next time I went, it was all junk.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, of course, every find has to have a story.&nbsp; My husband and I visited my uncle to day, and afterwards, I asked him if we could stop at an antique mall on the way home.&nbsp; So I peruse, found only a little $3 brooch for a friend for St. Patty&#039;s day, but I was bored and didn&#039;t want to go home just yet.&nbsp; I visited a booth of a person who has made some mistakes in the past (second go-round to the booth, just wanting to see if I missed anything.)&nbsp; She had put new earrings out, and I really liked a costume pair (that I didn&#039;t buy) for $10.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So I am looking at the earring cards really carefully, and I spy these for $6.99</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]65270[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]65271[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So I am thinkin&#039; &quot;Hmmm.... looks like 18k gold.&quot;&nbsp; I try to rub a tooth on a pearl, but they are all spiked in, but loupeing them, I can see they are real (various imperfections and color variations.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I take them with two other pairs of earrings up to the counter.&nbsp; The owner is a pip, and he is always there running the register.&nbsp; He knows I know my stuff, and he starts to look at everything making the remark &quot;She makes a lot of mistakes.&quot;&nbsp; So I tell him I will put the pearls in my purse (the lady wrapping stuff is clumping it together) and he says &quot;Let me see them.&quot;&nbsp; He practically takes them out of my hand, then proceeds to try to rub them on his teeth.&nbsp; I tell him to STOP because I don&#039;t want the nacre damaged (I didn&#039;t say that to him, I told him that if they were fake he could rub off the coating.)&nbsp; Now he is mad.&nbsp; There is a couple behind me waiting to check out, and the lady found this really cool book published in 1939 with world paintings.&nbsp; I am looking at it with her, and the owner is so flustered, he rings both our orders up together.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Now he has to void everything and redo it, he is really ticked off.&nbsp; But the kicker is, he rings up the couple IN BACK OF ME first.&nbsp; And guess what?&nbsp; The lady asks how much the book is, and he tells her $25, she says &quot;Oh, I don&#039;t want it.&quot;&nbsp; So she bought an apron.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I can wait for $6.99 pearl earrings, so I am singing along to the radio, and he is trying not to be upset he didn&#039;t see these earring first and that I wouldn&#039;t let him rub them on his teeth- I had bought them already, but he voided the sale.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, if you knew one of your dealers always made mistakes, wouldn&#039;t YOU be first in line when they brought something in?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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