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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lucille.b, post: 921847, member: 51&quot;]Evelyb, lots of great finds there.&nbsp; I love the Chinese bead necklace, looks like an especially nice one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Late to an estate sale, screwed up the time by an hour, arrived 45 minutes late instead of 15 minutes early, forgot my loupe (I&#039;m still off of coffee...) but actually found some things in spite of it all.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a Wednesday sale, professionally run, packed, but clean house, 99.9% newer stuff at first glance. Tons of jewelry, but literally almost everything new and didn&#039;t look that interesting.&nbsp; Also prices for the jewelry were a little bit high, $8 for necklaces, $5 a pin or bracelet.&nbsp; So I think people took a quick look, thought: &quot;new&quot; and &quot;expensive&quot; and went on to the rest of the house.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were probably 50-80 necklaces all hanging from a few pegs.&nbsp; I even did a quick sweep of the jewelry thinking, &quot;nothing there&quot;, grabbed 2 pins and went to the rest of the house.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m someone who really digs through things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Went through the necklaces again, and buried in the back was this thing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]201690[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>First thought --odd construction, but the pendant is kind of cool.&nbsp; Could see it had some kind of signature (but didn&#039;t have a loupe) so had someone else look and they said ... &quot;Hattie...&quot;&nbsp; and I filled in, &quot;Carnegie.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; So that went immediately in my bag.</p><p><br /></p><p>With new energy, I went through every inch of that jewelry.&nbsp; Here is what I got.&nbsp; Hobe Christmas pin, Boucher bow, Lia Sophia necklace (top), possible turquoise Heishi (?) --going to make a separate post, maybe a piece of D&amp;E (making separate post) bracelet which I think might be Napier, signed &quot;N&quot;, and the crown jewel, that Egyptian Revival Hattie Carnegie pin/pendant, which had nothing to do with the necklace it was on. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]201692[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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