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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 24153, member: 25&quot;]While excavating part of the garage I found bag of really cheap looking costume necklaces that I&#039;d obviously put aside as near total rubbish.</p><p>Well, being a bit bored I took a careful look.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]5981[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And found what I am 90% sure is a Chinese 18 carat gold chain with a jade heart pendant, 8 grams minus the heart. The tag is very tiny (you can just see it in the picture by the heart) but it appears to say 18 followed by the Chinese character for gold which looks like a little man in a hat.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]5982[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The lesson is never, ever to assume you have really checked everything.</p><p><br /></p><p>A buyer fished a gold ring out of a tray of costume odds and ends I had on display at an antiques fair for a pound a piece, and instead of snapping it up, she asked my partner if it should be in there, did she know it was gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>She wears that ring all the time as a reminder that there are unselfish people in the world, and she&#039;d met one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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