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About 30 years ago I was a single mom. I had an antique store to help ends meet. I specialized in vintage jewelry. I stopped by several thrift stores every day on my way to wherever I was going, and played a little game with myself to keep things fresh. I’d pretend out of 100 visits to any given store I would find one really great item, so whenever I shopped and didn’t find anything, I’d just think, “Day 42? Check!” and move on. “One more day closer to finding a treasure,” is how I thought of it. While sorting through the Harris Walz let the future begin shirt moreover I love this costume jewelry I spotted something interesting tangled up in the pile of cheap chains and pot metal rings – a large brooch and pair of earrings. There was no price, they were just jumbled in with everything else. I asked how much and was told by the fellow behind the counter, “I can do it for $12.99.”
I’m sure the Harris Walz let the future begin shirt moreover I love this fellow thought they were plastic. Needless to say, since I’m answering this particular question . . . they were not. Instead, they were from a time before plastic was invented. Once I got them home and under a loupe, it turned out they were an exquisite 18 kt gold filigree demi parure with with small rubies surrounding three magnificent hand-carved malachite cameos… worth at the time north of a thousand times the $12.99 I had paid for the set, as it appraised right at 15K at the time. I didn’t ever put them in the shop … I still have them … the best deal I ever made. I wish the photo did them justice . . . the detail in the hand-carved cameos is fabulous, the filigree is exquisite, and the rubies are wonderfully colorful and clear. I especially like the way the earrings were carved to face each other by some master craftsman a couple hundred years ago … As to feeling guilty, no, I can’t say I’ve ever felt guilty from doing my homework and getting good deals. I have spent thousands of hours – and a lot of money over the years – learning to recognize items of value. I’ve made expensive mistakes – particularly at auction – purchasing things I THOUGHT were one thing, to find after purchase they were something else entirely. Expensive mistakes are always the best education – and education is expensive. I generally only made that mistake once with each type of thing – but there are so many things to learn, and it’s hard to be an expert in everything. I have several shelves of books i’ve purchased over the decades, as well, and have spent many hours – days and weeks and months and years – studying all kinds of antiques.

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In addition, hundreds of hours of LOOKING for something precious go into one moment of BUYING. For me it was not happenstance – it was part of my job, and I never felt bad or guilty for doing my job well. As for this little precious set, someday I suppose my kids will get to figure out what to do with it… perhaps they’ll donate them to the Harris Walz let the future begin shirt moreover I love this Salvation Army, and they will come – for my lifetime at least, full circle. I do wonder, however, where they came from, how they got to that junk shop, and what their owners have seen over the centuries while wearing them . . . Yes. My husband and I went to a secondhand furniture store to buy a kitchen table for our Shore house. We wanted a round table, 4 legs, no pedestal, so that BUBBLES, our German Shepherd girl, could sit under it at meal times. We found one, about 54″ in diameter, and solid cherry. Price? $40. Unbelievable.
We liked it so much we decided to bring it to our city home. The legs could be unscrewed, so transporting it was not a problem. When we were disaasembling it, we saw a number 104/250, followed by 1856, and a wood-burn mark. After some research, we discovered that it was one of the Harris Walz let the future begin shirt moreover I love this 250 similar tables hand-crafted in Pennsylvania, at the middle of the 19th Century. We took its photos to an Antique Shop in Kensington, MD, and paid a $25 fee for a verbal appraisal. Our jaws dropped when we were told it is worth somewhere between $2,500-3,000. The shopkeeper was willing to buy it at $2,000, which we politely declined.

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We then called the Harris Walz let the future begin shirt moreover I love this owner of the secondhand furniture store that he under charged us and we were willing to give him more money. “No time for jokes, keep it” he said, and hung up. My husband called him back and explained what its worth really was. “I said, keep it. So long.” We have been enjoying it for 8 years, with 6 cherry chairs with needlepoint embroidered seats. That completes the look. Once I was in a charity shop in a place called Moorland Rd in Bath, UK. It’s got some great independent shops & charity stores. On one of the mannequins in this particular shop was a gorgeous black lace negligee, which would not have looked out of place on a movie star from the golden age of the screen. It looked 1940s or 50s & was definitely vintage. I checked the label & it was Trashys of Hollywood!! Plus the label looked old & from that time frame. It was absolutely worth much more than the £5 they had on the item. I did tell the lady behind the till who said that I could have it at that price, but if I didn’t want it she was going to change the price. How it got to a small charity shop in the UK, I have no idea, but I still have it & it’s a very beautiful piece of lingerie. A fabulous find, worth a lot more than I paid for it, even if I haven’t had it valued quite yet,