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Here's what $170.00 bought me ...
Had the weekend off finally so I hit some sales on Saturday. First one I went to I purchased a
N.Y.N.H.&H. R.R. kerosene Lantern (that's New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad) latest patent date is 1912 it looks like, a little hard to read. I got it and a pair of Sterling salt and pepper shakers marked N.S.Co. weighted sterling (only the very bottom of the bases are weighted). I paid $5 for both. I am having battery problems with my camera so I didn't get a photo of the shakers yet but I will. Here's the lantern-
The morning was looking good already so I headed off to the second sale where a guy had advertised sterling silver and depression glass. I found three pieces of vintage sterling jewelry there plus a salt glazed stoneware gallon jug (no marks). He wanted $5 for the jug, $25 for the Sterling Navajo cuff bracelet (marked Sterling and has "JM" makers mark initials) and $40 for the Victorian (or Edwardian?) looking bracelet (marked .925 no signature) and $10 for the Mexican Taxco Silver Aztec head Malachite necklace and pendant, pendant weighs 68.37 grams (most of that is the malachite) and the necklace weighs 18.36 grams. I bundled it all and offered him $65 for all four pieces and he accepted. The Navajo bracelet has a stone that I am not familiar with, when I get my camera working again, i'll post better pics, it weighs 88.14 grams, the other bracelet weighs 77.21 grams.
I left there and we were off to the third sale, this one was an estate sale about 15 miles away. We turned into the neighborhood where it was at and saw another sale on the way there. It was almost time for theestate sale to start so we kept driving around the next 2 blocks to get to the estate sale before all the "good" stuff was gone. Well wouldn't you know it, there was a big sign on the door that said "Estate Sale Sold Out". I was po'd to say the least. So we decided to go ahead and stop at the other slae since we were already there and it turned out to be a good stop. I ended up buying2 pieces of gold jewelry there. The first was a 10k heart bracelet with 12 small diamonds in it, it weighs 5.86 grams, the 2nd was a 14k necklace with a "Matty's Angel" charm that weighed 6.73 grams. Turns out it was jewelry that her ex-boyfriend had bought her so she no longer wanted it in her possession (as she put it). I offered her $100 for the 2 pieces, she accepted.
Here is the pics,-
Had the weekend off finally so I hit some sales on Saturday. First one I went to I purchased a
N.Y.N.H.&H. R.R. kerosene Lantern (that's New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad) latest patent date is 1912 it looks like, a little hard to read. I got it and a pair of Sterling salt and pepper shakers marked N.S.Co. weighted sterling (only the very bottom of the bases are weighted). I paid $5 for both. I am having battery problems with my camera so I didn't get a photo of the shakers yet but I will. Here's the lantern-
The morning was looking good already so I headed off to the second sale where a guy had advertised sterling silver and depression glass. I found three pieces of vintage sterling jewelry there plus a salt glazed stoneware gallon jug (no marks). He wanted $5 for the jug, $25 for the Sterling Navajo cuff bracelet (marked Sterling and has "JM" makers mark initials) and $40 for the Victorian (or Edwardian?) looking bracelet (marked .925 no signature) and $10 for the Mexican Taxco Silver Aztec head Malachite necklace and pendant, pendant weighs 68.37 grams (most of that is the malachite) and the necklace weighs 18.36 grams. I bundled it all and offered him $65 for all four pieces and he accepted. The Navajo bracelet has a stone that I am not familiar with, when I get my camera working again, i'll post better pics, it weighs 88.14 grams, the other bracelet weighs 77.21 grams.
I left there and we were off to the third sale, this one was an estate sale about 15 miles away. We turned into the neighborhood where it was at and saw another sale on the way there. It was almost time for theestate sale to start so we kept driving around the next 2 blocks to get to the estate sale before all the "good" stuff was gone. Well wouldn't you know it, there was a big sign on the door that said "Estate Sale Sold Out". I was po'd to say the least. So we decided to go ahead and stop at the other slae since we were already there and it turned out to be a good stop. I ended up buying2 pieces of gold jewelry there. The first was a 10k heart bracelet with 12 small diamonds in it, it weighs 5.86 grams, the 2nd was a 14k necklace with a "Matty's Angel" charm that weighed 6.73 grams. Turns out it was jewelry that her ex-boyfriend had bought her so she no longer wanted it in her possession (as she put it). I offered her $100 for the 2 pieces, she accepted.
Here is the pics,-
Ah well, live and learn
