Home service call leads to early sale jewelry score.

[war-digs-it]

10:00AM the phone rang with a lady who locked herself out of her home (locksmith here) "I can be there in 10 minutes" and away I go.

I pulled up to the house and the garage door was open and my first thought is "darn, she got in"

Nope, she was cleaning her garage to have a sale this weekend and locked herself out while carrying things through the door.

"I love garage sales" as I picked her lock. "Come on by Friday" she replied.

"Old vintage jewelry is what I buy mostly, have any?"

"Some but it's mostly broken". "That's Okay, let's take a look"

She brings out a big old jewelry box and it was mostly junk but I made some saves.
For a total of $40.00 I ended up with 5.7 grams of 14k gold and 100.5 grams of silver.
The last picture is something kind of special...Plus I charged her $60.00 for 2 minutes of picking her lock.
Unfortunately the crucifix has a break near the bottom, it is marked and tested 18k

 

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[Baltimore]

Nice finds! Do you often run into sales on work trips? I feel like that would be perfect, cruising residential neighborhoods and such.

 

[centfladigger]

man, I could have used you today, took forever to drill out a Schlage lock on a vacant house...wore my battery out,lol

 

[desertmoons]

Wow..if that is an old cross those might be some really nice saphires. Nice.

 

[war-digs-it]

Nice finds! Do you often run into sales on work trips? I feel like that would be perfect, cruising residential neighborhoods and such.

It is almost "perfect". Some of my best buys and connections have been achieved this way. I have bought some of my best items meeting people through my "job", as well as taking me on routes when I normally wouldn't frequent. This is another one of those buys. Purchased with a gold chain on it that was sent to melt. Paid $750.00
Chain melt was $670.00 one year ago and this was my keep...

 

[war-digs-it]

Wow..if that is an old cross those might be some really nice saphires. Nice.

Not real old judging by the bail. Old enough and the Saphires are pretty fair under the loop.

 

[war-digs-it]

man, I could have used you today, took forever to drill out a Schlage lock on a vacant house...wore my battery out,lol

Schlage is a good brand. Usually I can pick them in a couple minutes. The tough ones that need to be drilled are done at the pin shear line and replace just the cylinder and not damage the Knob or deadbolt shell.

 

[desertmoons]

ooooh..might those be atocha emeralds on that reale? I had chance to hold a handful of emeralds they found and the color on them was so deep and clear.