Featured Shah & Shah jade earrings...value?

Clean them.
Dawn dish washing detergent. Very soft toothbrush. Then a liquid silver polish, and then warm sudsy water again. Rinse well and dry.

No woman is going to wear dirty jewelry. Jewelry displays better clean and you want it to shine. You will get a better price if it looks good.

These are better than what you have in Jewelry #1.
I suspect these are 1930s Chinese. Better quality jade.
@Hollyblue

Have you sold online before?
Unless you have already been selling on ebay and have good feed back I wouldn't start there with any of your good items. Etsy is slower, but you set the price you want.

I'm worried about you putting some of these nice things on line as a new seller and not getting what you should.

You say you are in Southern Cal. Surely there are many reputable dealers of antique jewelry. Find a few, go in start talking and asking questions. Ask if they buy outright or if they consign. Ask what their percentages are. You will find that it varies.
After you feel comfortable with a couple of dealers, then take some of your nicer pieces in and ask what they would price them at. Be aware, they will not give you what they will sell for, probably a third of that or a little higher.

 

Pretty!

What are the holes that are visible from the back, in the last photo?

 

The holes are where the carving pierces through the stone. Both earrings have it, in slightly different orientations

 

Thank you for the feedback and guidance @clutteredcloset49.

I sold some things on eBay years ago, no jewelry that I recall though. I'll have to check my feedback numbers, but it was all good. As a potter I've sold on Etsy for seven or eight years. The last few years I've sold mostly wholesale, but I'm still involved with a ceramics team and I keep my empty shop open ;-) Lots of good feedback there, but again, no jewelry.

I think your feeling about the jade is correct. It feels 30's to me.

Your advice about finding a vintage jeweler is good. Like you said, being in SoCal I do have resources. I looked up jewelry appraisers yesterday from a link someone posted on my other thread and a jeweler not too far away came up that my Mom used to go to. I'm sure the guy Mom dealt with is long gone, but they have a long and good reputation. I'll ask if they handle antique and vintage when I call.

I think I'm going to go through all the boxes and try to organize/sort like items before I start listing/selling anything. By doing that I'll get an education and a better feel for what's fallen in my lap. The collections seem to be from around 1880 - 1970.

 

If you wind up consigning these earrings, be absolutely sure the jeweler or consigner you use is an expert in jade.

As Khl889 said earlier:

You can look at an array of jades in a store display case and see prices ranging in many multiples; yet trying to figure out why and how prices differ so greatly is pretty much a mystery except to those in the field. Think of diamonds, much the same.

If these happen to be very desirable jade (not my field), still thinking back to the plain jade ones under Ebay completed that sold for $700. I would never have guessed the value on those. It was possibly the color or something very subtle, so best to have an expert evaluate.

Concur that these are much more interesting that the 20 pieces on the other post. A different level of quality to be sure.

Also agree that someone wearing these would eventually want them polished, but my guess is that they are going to be purchased for the jade, not impossible someone might want them "untouched" so to speak. Maybe when you get around to having them evaluated, you can inquire what is best as far as polishing.

 

Then you have experience with the venue.
You could easily add a few of the medium priced costume pieces in to see what kind of response you get. As you get more knowledgeable about jewelry, you will be in a good position to sell on Etsy.

 

Just a thought, some jewelers regard costume jewelry as "junk". In other words if it does not contain gold, silver or some other precious metal & some type of gem quality stone it is not worth their time or effort. However, as others can tell you some of the older costume items can sell for as much if not more than the "real things".

If this jeweler does dismiss the costume pieces I would seek another opinion either here or with a dealer who deals with costume jewelry.

JMHO

 

Yes, absolutely. I said nicer pieces, I should have made myself a little clearer. I was speaking of the jade and any other gold, silver or precious stone items.

I was assuming the costume jewelry as shown in the other thread, would be sold on line.

 

I also wonder what's with the $700 on the sold pair. They are not imperial jadeite, no fine carvings... Color is indeed nice. Must be the quality of the jade but go figure how to tell.