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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marko, post: 252592, member: 210&quot;]That handwriting is absolutely lovely, great letter!</p><p><br /></p><p>So I ventured out again today.&nbsp; Seems like there was this estate sale a few miles from me I missed Saturday, and of course, they did not advertise they had any jewelry.&nbsp; I got there at 9:30 a.m., and was the first to look at the jewelry.&nbsp; I asked if they had sold a lot yesterday, and they said &quot;no, nobody wants to pay these prices.&quot;&nbsp; The prices were $10 a piece or 3 pieces for $25.&nbsp; The guy said he was picking gold out of it all day yesterday.&nbsp; Who knows.&nbsp; Well, I never saw this type of jewelry before and I liked it, so I bought most of it before anybody else came in, should have bought it all since it is vintage and there were a lot of rings.&nbsp; Rostov finift russian jewelry.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]78005[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The guy running the sale said he bought a ton of this on consignment.&nbsp; He never bothered to google what it was/is.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I got this Martelli sterling ring at the sale, I love it, sorry blurry picture.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]78006[/ATTACH] </p><p>Then I went to a flea market, very slow, people must have waited until after 11 a.m. to set up for free.&nbsp; I got these from one guy selling his aunt&#039;s jewelry.&nbsp; </p><p>Heliotrope watermelon bracelet.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]78008[/ATTACH] </p><p>Then the guy&#039;s aunt was Italian, so he had Venetian wedding cake necklaces, but I wasn&#039;t thrilled by them, and the price wasn&#039;t right.&nbsp; He did have these two 15&quot; strands of Venetian glass I never saw before....the beads are four-sided, cobalt blue opaque, with aventurine flecks running all through the surface (which is rougher) of the beads.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]78009[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]78010[/ATTACH] </p><p>Anybody know what these are?&nbsp; He said his aunt connected the two necklaces and wore them as one long one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I decide to go back to the estate sale before going home.&nbsp; This lady who is very obnoxious and gets thrown out of estate sales pulled up right before me.&nbsp; She would not let me look at the jewelry.&nbsp; When I was there in the morning, they had two reproduction filigree Edwardian bracelets, just costume, not sterling, and they wanted $20 a piece for them.&nbsp; They said they were vintage, and I said they weren&#039;t.... so the obnoxious lady grabs them and asks how much they are (the price is plastered on there hugely in masking tape) and the guy running the show says &quot;Oh, you can have them for the 3 for $25 price.&quot;&nbsp; Now I am not one to quarrel but I said &quot;Wait a minute.&nbsp; I would have bought them at that price earlier.&nbsp; Am I getting an end of the day deal?&quot;&nbsp; Then he says &quot;Oh, I made a mistake.&nbsp; And you didn&#039;t like them anyway&quot;&nbsp; because I told them they were reproductions.&nbsp; Now I am not happy at all.&nbsp; Okay, I wait it out until the lady leaves.&nbsp; The guy running the jewelry spot (not the guy running the show) says &quot;I&#039;m sorry.&quot;&nbsp; And I tell him it&#039;s okay.... so when the guy running the show leaves, he gives me the sterling I want for $5 a piece.&nbsp; Pays to be nice.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry to ramble, but they sat there talking about all the jewelry they had in the truck and had to take to a scrapper.&nbsp; I said &quot;Can I look at it?&quot; and they said &quot;no, it&#039;s from another sale.&quot;&nbsp; I know other estate seller set up a separate area and sell from other sales at current sales.&nbsp; DUH.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>To be fair, I did get a bargain in the a.m...... I picked up this watch and had a feeling about it.&nbsp; It was part of the 3 for $25 sale.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]78011[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]78012[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]78013[/ATTACH] </p><p>When I was at the flea market, I took it to a jeweler who opened the back and found it to be 14k gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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