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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marko, post: 235750, member: 210&quot;]Those sailor trunks are great!&nbsp; I love that train, lloyd.&nbsp; Evelyb, the blue earrings are my favorite.&nbsp; Aaron, the martini glasses are so cool!</p><p><br /></p><p>I went to a bi-annual community yard sale at a local fire hall.&nbsp; It was 91 degrees and dripping wet humid, and like evelyb, I dragged myself out of bed.&nbsp; Not much there, but the people were ridiculous.&nbsp; How ridiculous, you ask?</p><p><br /></p><p>1.&nbsp; I was looking at some costume jewelry.&nbsp; The woman says $2 each, so I pick up a frog brooch.&nbsp; Oh, no, that one is $10.&nbsp; Okay, no thank you.&nbsp; So she says to me &quot;there isn&#039;t anything real in there if that&#039;s what you are looking for&quot; and she proceeds to tell her friend she has more jewelry to bring out.&nbsp; I politely ask &quot;May I see it?&quot; then she says &quot;No, I don&#039;t have anymore.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; Then this woman has jewelry for 50 cents, and she is a dealer.&nbsp; I pick out an old GF locket, and she tells me she doesn&#039;t have change for a one-dollar bill.&nbsp; I just give her the dollar and tell her I will come back later.&nbsp; When I come back later, the 50 cent bin is gone, and I ask where it is.&nbsp; She said, &quot;Oh, I want to sort it.&quot;&nbsp; I ask to see it again, and she won&#039;t let me see it.&nbsp; Forget about the other 50 cents.&nbsp; She tells me she has some &quot;good&quot; jewelry starting at $20 dollars and up, and it is all stuff I wouldn&#039;t buy for $2.</p><p><br /></p><p>3.&nbsp; I then spot a table where a woman has mostly newer jewelry and some older jewelry, and I see a cameo necklace set in costume metal, no big deal.&nbsp; She wants $20.&nbsp; No thank you.&nbsp; So then I see a nicer cameo set in sterling, more modern, say 1960s, and she says &quot;That&#039;s $40.&nbsp; If I had a shop, I would charge $75 dollars, but I don&#039;t have a shop.&quot;&nbsp; I didn&#039;t have the heart to tell her I buy cameos at antique shows and mall for $15-$20 all the time, set in GF and sterling.&nbsp; These people need to stop googling ebay to set their prices or list on ebay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>4.&nbsp; I look at a modern copper and earring bracelet set, and I ask how much.&nbsp; &quot;Oh, those are copper, I need $10.&quot;&nbsp; I look around at the table, and I notice when I pick up the box they are in that there is a neon $5 sticker on the set.&nbsp; I show the woman, and she says, &quot;Oh, I guess I want $5.&quot;&nbsp; Twilight Zone.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So I did find a few things, not much, and I need to upload the photos.&nbsp; This I found last week in a lot of older jewelry at a thrift shop.&nbsp; I thought the beads were glass, but when I tested them on the Presidium today, they came up high in the garnet, tourmaline and iolite category.&nbsp; It is on string, and some of the beads are clear, some have a little white section in them, and some are nearly half clear and half opaque white....I am thinking some kind of quartz, but you guys will probably know what this is, so here goes:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The necklace</p><p>[ATTACH=full]71429[/ATTACH] </p><p>Beads close up</p><p>[ATTACH=full]71430[/ATTACH] </p><p>And more close up, note second bead on the right, bottom, white section</p><p>[ATTACH=full]71431[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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