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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9596899, member: 36"]The givre bracelet showed up for a whole dollar on Thursday. The rest is from an estate sale Friday morning. Sterling spoons and a silver handle cake server. One of the spoons is Tiffany sterling. Most are really old souvenir spoons; one is engraved 1893. The autograph book is an unusual shape with celluloid flowers. The napking rings are silver-plate, but old. The ivory is ivory, The copper brooch may be artisan and the coral flowers are glass. The crown is MMA (darnitt, fooled me) and the filigree pins are costume. (didn't fool me; I just didn't care. I collect them.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The coral necklace is coral and most likely gold. The coral and ivory earrings probably have gold findings. The little watch pin and circle pin are 14k. The little ball earrings are probably gold too, but no marks. The winner seems to be the watch chain. It all seems to be of a piece, and not a mark to its name. I need to test the links, but the clasp rings up a nice solid 18k. If that's gold.... about 27g of 18k is what I call a bargain. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]465211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465213[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465214[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465215[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9596899, member: 36"]The givre bracelet showed up for a whole dollar on Thursday. The rest is from an estate sale Friday morning. Sterling spoons and a silver handle cake server. One of the spoons is Tiffany sterling. Most are really old souvenir spoons; one is engraved 1893. The autograph book is an unusual shape with celluloid flowers. The napking rings are silver-plate, but old. The ivory is ivory, The copper brooch may be artisan and the coral flowers are glass. The crown is MMA (darnitt, fooled me) and the filigree pins are costume. (didn't fool me; I just didn't care. I collect them.) The coral necklace is coral and most likely gold. The coral and ivory earrings probably have gold findings. The little watch pin and circle pin are 14k. The little ball earrings are probably gold too, but no marks. The winner seems to be the watch chain. It all seems to be of a piece, and not a mark to its name. I need to test the links, but the clasp rings up a nice solid 18k. If that's gold.... about 27g of 18k is what I call a bargain. [ATTACH=full]465211[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465212[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465213[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465214[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]465215[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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