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Those “hair clips” are antique. The pipe says Bavaria on it. The crystal jewellery is from the 40’s and 50’s. You need to check to see if it is rock crystal or glass. If you ever find a watch marked Tudor those are mad by Rolex
Check for anything that's marked. Trifari is a good name too. BTW I do use my silver. Why leave it wrapped up in a drawer? What am I waiting for? Plus, you can put sterling in the dishwasher. Never put silver plate in the DW. I made that mistake. Ruined them all. The light blue stone set in gold is Larimar I think.
That pin with the filigree and the little dangly shields are handcrafted in Norway I believe. Most likely sterling silver. Called a Solje in Norwegian. Wear it just the way it is, on a national costume, a bunad. My mom and I have many pieces like this, handcrafted by silver smiths in Norway. Take care.
Now I understand what that pin is. I follow the Royals & have seen Queen Sonja, Crown Princess Mette-Marit & Princess Ingrid Alexandra wear such brooches on their Bunads during your National Day or when Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s Confirmation took place. They really are beautiful pieces of the Silversmiths Art. Not to mention the Embroidery Patterns on the Bunads themselves. I embroider & just am in admiration of the skill shown on the various pieces of the Bunad. They truly are stunning. Thanks for explaining just what that Brooch is & helping me to understand the significance of the Brooches. Take Care from 🇨🇦!! 😊
The Solje is absolutely stunning! I love filigree, and jewelry that are special pieces in other cultures. I'd LOVE to know more about the brooch they found in the satiny bag!
I think the opal brooch is real. At one of the Commonwealth Games in Australia or it might have been an expo we had in Brisbane Australia, those opal tie pins/brooch were sold as mementos. It was a koala holding the opal and I too bought one but I don’t remember how much it cost. The opals were not so valuable at that time (70’s or 80’s). Who knows now. ❤️ from Australia 🇦🇺.
That is a Stratton Initial compact the little "key" is to turn the initial to your chosen letter. To get the bottom portion to open you lean the mirror all the way back and the covered portion pops open. I would guess it to be a 1950s to early 1960s compact. Depending on the condition I have seen them sell for anywhere from $20 to $100 USD.
Hey .... sweet! Got in on the ground floor for once .... very rare I'm one of the first to comment. Nice video! Uhhh... your "mouse" is a koala with an opal (real or not...) because, as I'm sure you know, a lot of opals come from Australia!
I find it so odd that a woman would sell her Mothers jewerly in an estate sale. I guess some people aren't attached to things..... which can be a good thing.
Before my mom passed she gave me her jewelry. She said there were only a few valuable pieces and she said Feel free to sell the ones you wouldn't use. I will leave that up to my daughters, with the same message. ❤️
Many times people have such nice things themselves that they don't value these things. I once bought 3 shopping bags full of 70s costume jewelry from a family that were emptying their mothers city apartment. At first I couldn't understand till I saw her house and realized that she probably had a truck load of real jewelry so the (amazing) costume jewelry was just silly fun stuff for them
So that's where it went! I was out jewelry-hunting this morning, and sterling of course, but Alex bought it all! Long wonky post alert: 08:32 I'd say circa 1960. The newer they are the longer they tend to be. The coating was invented in 1954 so that's the oldest the AB set can be. The red one looked newer than the AB one. 09:48 Koala stickpin -souvenir of Australia. Opal might be a doublet or triplet - glued between two pieces of glass. 11:12 pre-1900 for sure. I'd bet on gold-filled. 12:12 early 20s filigree, Czech or Rhode Island. Could be either. 12:26 Scandinavian Solje! Wedding brooch. Still being made in the traditional style with the 19th century style hardware or were the last I looked, so age is... who knows. 13:17 Goofy 60s or early 70s, 16:00 amber, heat-treated. 17:45 80s acrylic. No bakelite there. 20:55 Not painted - transfer print. 24:18 The earrings aren't gold. The ivory looks like Ivory. 25:45 SHERMAN! That pays for the whole box!
Thanks for the breakdown! I was thoroughly enjoying each little treasure! I loved the little treasure box a bit more than the petrified wood. Do you know what the large brown topaz like stones in the pendant and what looked like a huge brooch' I once had a nice medium sized brooch with a large faceted brown stone, just like those items. It's ok if it's just colored glass, I just think those stones are really pretty and cool!
12:26 It's not a wedding brooch, it's for the Norwegian national costume called Bunad. By the style of it and the way it's made, it's probably from the late 1800s or early 1900s.
Very cool stuff. I love the green Sherman set. True about people not using their nice cutlery sets. When my mom passed I inherited 2 sets, silver plated with bakelite handles, They were my grand parents' set . Not very valuable but cool and valuable to me. I use them daily now. Great memories.
I hate the term "costume jewelry". Like when I hear it I feel like people think it's cheap and not important. I have a bad problem with jewelry. I want it all. They're all unique. It's a real problem.
Great observation 👍! If you're not spot on you're close! I can actually see him making stuff like that in the future. That young man is so multi talented with an imagination that is going to take him places!
Other than the Rolex "blunder", the watch collage is pretty neat, and tastefully done. It would be nice if you could salvage it by switching out some of the other watch parts for the pricey ones. I see you don't have a shortage of watch parts from this haul!
No 19th century craftsman would build furniture with mismatched wood like that and certainly not with such a dark streak going through it. Check the feet and you may find they are not brass or cast iron but gold finished spelter, AKA white metal or pot metal, something that would never be used for feet like this in the 1800s. ,,
I'm amazed at how valuable costume jewelry is these days. Be sure to check all those pins and brooches for marks in case they are Trifari crown or Coro or other good-quality maker. The piece with the tiny thimble, scissors and needle case (etui) is called a chatelaine.
I would love to have that, my great grandmother was a seamstress at A fancy store downtown LA. It reminds me of her. I have her treadle sewing machine.
The amber jewelry was sold at a mall store with “nature” in the name. It was sold right after Jurassic Park was released. I have many pieces because my family was fascinated with the concept of insects in amber.
That’s a koala bear for sure. 9not a mouse or bear). Mexican silver is great. Most of the silver in the world comes from there. Mexican silver changed the economics of the world.
The opal is likely black opal (not top quality) and the critter is a koala bear. Pretty sure it's a tourist piece from Australia. I think I've got one buried in my jewelry box.
The first crystal necklace that Melissa pulled out has Aurora Borealis crystals. That dates it to no earlier than 1954 when that process was invented. The cast iron turtle may be a flower frog used to hold cut flowers.
you had a few pieces of Mexican silver. there is an interesting story to go with that. Back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when a southwestern Native American was hired to do a job, he would specify that he be paid in silver dollars. He would take his pay to a silversmith and work out a deal with him to turn it into jewelry. The silversmith would go to a railroad track and, just before the train came by, he would lay all those coins out on the tracks. When the train came, every wheel that passed over the coins would act like a jeweler's hammer and, when it was gone, the coins would be turned into short pieces of sheet silver, which the smith would stamp and form using homemade tools. Often, you could see the old impression of the coin design
@@starrlacey2505 The really funny part was that they would then take the jewelry to the train station and sell it to tourists from back East. The tourists would ask, "Is it sterling?" and the seller would say, "Oh yes" What neither the buyer or the seller knew was that the coin silver used at the time was actually finer (purer) than sterling. Sterling silver is 7.5%copper.
The little bear is a koala with an opal in the middle you can get them in tourist shops in Australia
Cane here to say that. My Mum was an Aussie war bride. I’d know a koala with my eyes closed.
*came not cane. Dang typos
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Yes, Koala!!
My dad brought me one of those koalas from his trip to Australia.
Has anyone mentioned that it's a koala? (Reads comments) ... oh kaaay. 😄
What a great score with the silver dinner ware..
🙋♀️❤❤💕Melissa, your hair looks beautiful! Must be that tropical Canadian Sun😉
Alexander, Melissa, and Abigail, thank you for sharing your finds. ❤
That stool is gorgeous 😍
Those “hair clips” are antique. The pipe says Bavaria on it. The crystal jewellery is from the 40’s and 50’s. You need to check to see if it is rock crystal or glass. If you ever find a watch marked Tudor those are mad by Rolex
Maybe a koala 🐨 bear with opal (not gold) I would guess. Very Australian tourist item.
Those bags keep the sterling handles on the cutlery from tarnishing.
Check for anything that's marked. Trifari is a good name too.
BTW I do use my silver. Why leave it wrapped up in a drawer? What am I waiting for? Plus, you can put sterling in the dishwasher. Never put silver plate in the DW. I made that mistake. Ruined them all.
The light blue stone set in gold is Larimar I think.
The stick pin is an opal “jelly belly” if I am not mistaken.
It's a Koala with an Australian opal in it's belly.
Looks like a Koala with Opal. Makes sense since they dig up Opal in Australia.
Hi you two, the little bear/mouse with opal tummy is a Koala bear as opals come from Australia mainly. Great video, xxx
Yes Koala defo and Australia is famous for opals
@@Fees-Shed Noticed that right away so the Opal is probably genuine.
Oh nice!!!
I came to comments just to say this! Aussie opal in a koala (not koala bear)
Came to the comments just for this!
Wait...what? No cars in this video? I'm going to have to rethink my subscription to this channel!
(Just kidding.)
at 12.33 minutes , that's Traditional Norwegian/Saami Folk jewellery. It's got value. Could be 'Juhls' a Saami Jeweller..
Could be a koala, opals are found in Australia. I would think if it's real it would be in gold.
The piece at 30:18 , did you try to open the top, it looks like it comes apart. I suspect a needle case.
Keep the sterling silver. Economy bad- getting worse. Silver better than money in the bank.
Wow I’m one of the first, watching all the way from Jakarta Indonesia, old southern American x-pat….
That pin with the filigree and the little dangly shields are handcrafted in Norway I believe. Most likely sterling silver. Called a Solje in Norwegian. Wear it just the way it is, on a national costume, a bunad. My mom and I have many pieces like this, handcrafted by silver smiths in Norway. Take care.
Now I understand what that pin is. I follow the Royals & have seen Queen Sonja, Crown Princess Mette-Marit & Princess Ingrid Alexandra wear such brooches on their Bunads during your National Day or when Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s Confirmation took place. They really are beautiful pieces of the Silversmiths Art. Not to mention the Embroidery Patterns on the Bunads themselves. I embroider & just am in admiration of the skill shown on the various pieces of the Bunad. They truly are stunning. Thanks for explaining just what that Brooch is & helping me to understand the significance of the Brooches. Take Care from 🇨🇦!! 😊
The Solje is absolutely stunning! I love filigree, and jewelry that are special pieces in other cultures.
I'd LOVE to know more about the brooch they found in the satiny bag!
Yes exactly I have some of these too
Its a koala holding the opal!! 🇦🇺🐨🥰❤
That stick pin looks like a koala. Aren't there opal mines in Australia?
That pin you think is a mouse looks like a koala bear with what looks like a genuine opal the pin could be Australian gold .
I think the opal brooch is real. At one of the Commonwealth Games in Australia or it might have been an expo we had in Brisbane Australia, those opal tie pins/brooch were sold as mementos. It was a koala holding the opal and I too bought one but I don’t remember how much it cost. The opals were not so valuable at that time (70’s or 80’s). Who knows now. ❤️ from Australia 🇦🇺.
What you showed at 12.25 is a Norwegian Solje wedding brooch, Alex.
The earrings may also be in the haul. Difficult to see the brooch clearly, but is worth in the region of USD20-40. And it's vintage, not antique.
Yep have several of these!!
Looks like a koala. Australian opal?
That is a Stratton Initial compact the little "key" is to turn the initial to your chosen letter. To get the bottom portion to open you lean the mirror all the way back and the covered portion pops open. I would guess it to be a 1950s to early 1960s compact. Depending on the condition I have seen them sell for anywhere from $20 to $100 USD.
Hey .... sweet! Got in on the ground floor for once .... very rare I'm one of the first to comment. Nice video!
Uhhh... your "mouse" is a koala with an opal (real or not...) because, as I'm sure you know, a lot of opals come from Australia!
Check to see if the hair thingies are tortoiseshell. I used to have one similar- Edwardian.
I find it so odd that a woman would sell her Mothers jewerly in an estate sale. I guess some people aren't attached to things..... which can be a good thing.
Before my mom passed she gave me her jewelry. She said there were only a few valuable pieces and she said Feel free to sell the ones you wouldn't use. I will leave that up to my daughters, with the same message. ❤️
Many times people have such nice things themselves that they don't value these things. I once bought 3 shopping bags full of 70s costume jewelry from a family that were emptying their mothers city apartment. At first I couldn't understand till I saw her house and realized that she probably had a truck load of real jewelry so the (amazing) costume jewelry was just silly fun stuff for them
The little "mouse" pin is actually a koala and opal stone. Opals are found in Australia. It's a tourist piece.
So that's where it went! I was out jewelry-hunting this morning, and sterling of course, but Alex bought it all! Long wonky post alert: 08:32 I'd say circa 1960. The newer they are the longer they tend to be. The coating was invented in 1954 so that's the oldest the AB set can be. The red one looked newer than the AB one. 09:48 Koala stickpin -souvenir of Australia. Opal might be a doublet or triplet - glued between two pieces of glass. 11:12 pre-1900 for sure. I'd bet on gold-filled. 12:12 early 20s filigree, Czech or Rhode Island. Could be either. 12:26 Scandinavian Solje! Wedding brooch. Still being made in the traditional style with the 19th century style hardware or were the last I looked, so age is... who knows. 13:17 Goofy 60s or early 70s, 16:00 amber, heat-treated. 17:45 80s acrylic. No bakelite there. 20:55 Not painted - transfer print. 24:18 The earrings aren't gold. The ivory looks like Ivory. 25:45 SHERMAN! That pays for the whole box!
9:48 - Glad I wasn't alone shouting - it's a koala!
❤koala australia opal
Thanks for the breakdown! I was thoroughly enjoying each little treasure! I loved the little treasure box a bit more than the petrified wood.
Do you know what the large brown topaz like stones in the pendant and what looked like a huge brooch'
I once had a nice medium sized brooch with a large faceted brown stone, just like those items.
It's ok if it's just colored glass, I just think those stones are really pretty and cool!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
12:26 It's not a wedding brooch, it's for the Norwegian national costume called Bunad. By the style of it and the way it's made, it's probably from the late 1800s or early 1900s.
Still have my mons Sarah Coventry jewelry from 70s In awesome shape still wear it myself
Very cool stuff. I love the green Sherman set. True about people not using their nice cutlery sets. When my mom passed I inherited 2 sets, silver plated with bakelite handles, They were my grand parents' set . Not very valuable but cool and valuable to me. I use them daily now. Great memories.
I hate the term "costume jewelry". Like when I hear it I feel like people think it's cheap and not important. I have a bad problem with jewelry. I want it all. They're all unique. It's a real problem.
The ring with the tiny colored balls is a very high end piece. I sold a pair of earrings and necklace and got 250.00 US for it.
Maybe this is the ring that Abigail choose? She's a smart kid :D
The turtle can be use for potpourri.
A lot of opals are from Australia, could the stick pin be a koala bear?
Its a koala bear from Australia, also many good opals are from Australia. Might be a good find.
The gold pin looks like a Koala with an opal
The Earrings at 18:42 that are pierced with clipon back look like a pair I sold that were 14k white gold and real gemstone!!
Yvonne, I agree!
Hoping for a new video soon. Gotta have my Curiosity Inc fix! =)
The ring Melissa kept is 1960's Sarah Coventry. I have one that is identical. Glad she likes it.
I have that exact ring!! It was giving to me as a kid in a bag of cast off jewelry from an aunt, still in perfect shape😄
It's always nice when Melissa comes in! Have a great day from Texas!
I think the plastic halloween pumpkin ring was the best find, thumbs up
Dave, Dave, Dave, don't you know the turtle is everything? 😆🐢
@@karenmilligan5597 ha ha ha
The stool was made the way Josh has been making his cutting boards with glueing different types of wood together and then forming shapes.
Great observation 👍! If you're not spot on you're close! I can actually see him making stuff like that in the future. That young man is so multi talented with an imagination that is going to take him places!
Think the little mouse is actually a koala bear as its holding a piece of Australian opal but I imagine someone has already said that lol....
I did see ALL the jewelry and watch stuff, but, what I also saw was a SCHOONER on your piano. Please introduce that lovely model to us?
loved watching that thanks ❤️🏴
Other than the Rolex "blunder", the watch collage is pretty neat, and tastefully done. It would be nice if you could salvage it by switching out some of the other watch parts for the pricey ones. I see you don't have a shortage of watch parts from this haul!
It looks terrible.
For sure. Take the Rolex out and keep the rest of the collage.
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I think it looks nice. Lots of work went into that.
Joshua uses keys in his welding projects.
The pin is a koala bear and the stone is opal that comes from Australia
That ring with the different stone is a moss agate ring
Such beautiful jewelry 🤩
Sterling is usually kept in those anti-tarnish felt bags. The Girls Guide spoons are demi-tasse spoons. (Sorry for so many posts!)
I agree, a koala with a genuine opal.
That bear/mouse must be a koala, hence the opal - a souvenir from Australia.
the little earings with opal in them looks like a koala. and since opals come from australia i feel like there is a theme going on here
wonder if Abigale has seen a TV test pattern in real life, like the one on her shirt?
That's a Koala Bear with an opal belly. Maybe someone brought it back from a trip to Australia
Heat up the glue from the back of the collage. And use a couple of the extra pieces from the parts box to fill in what you remove
I'm just here to be one of the 3,000,000 views on this video. 🙂
That little opal bear pin could be a Koala with opal. :)
Great treasures
You'll get best price for the flatware if you identify the pattern. Dorks like me look for pieces to complete or replace for a set they already have.
Yes, don’t clean the ivory as you may remove the patina that says it’s antique.
No 19th century craftsman would build furniture with mismatched wood like that and certainly not with such a dark streak going through it. Check the feet and you may find they are not brass or cast iron but gold finished spelter, AKA white metal or pot metal, something that would never be used for feet like this in the 1800s.
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I'm amazed at how valuable costume jewelry is these days. Be sure to check all those pins and brooches for marks in case they are Trifari crown or Coro or other good-quality maker. The piece with the tiny thimble, scissors and needle case (etui) is called a chatelaine.
Yes, the little case opens and contains a tiny needle. Not very usable obviously, but cute.
I would love to have that, my great grandmother was a seamstress at A fancy store downtown LA. It reminds me of her. I have her treadle sewing machine.
I think that stick pin is a koala & it very well could be an opal.
The little koala with the opal is pin from the 1980's..ussually a souvenir or given away by companies like Qantas
The amber jewelry was sold at a mall store with “nature” in the name. It was sold right after Jurassic Park was released. I have many pieces because my family was fascinated with the concept of insects in amber.
That’s a koala bear for sure. 9not a mouse or bear). Mexican silver is great. Most of the silver in the world comes from there. Mexican silver changed the economics of the world.
The opal is likely black opal (not top quality) and the critter is a koala bear.
Pretty sure it's a tourist piece from Australia. I think I've got one buried in my jewelry box.
it’s a KOALA HOLDING AN AUSTRALIAN OPAL……. Australia opal is valuable
search for blue willow china...
Ohh please just use tripods pretty please ,,!! I love your content but i have headaches because of the cam keep moving 😅
The watch collage is a very nice off- the-page scrapbooking project. Impressive!
Koala bear with opal tummy. Australia is the main source of opal. The pin was likely a souvenir.
The Sherman pieces are beautiful. 💖
It is a koala with an opal! The fancy hair clip can be tortoise shell.
which like ivory is illegal to sell at least in the usa
The first crystal necklace that Melissa pulled out has Aurora Borealis crystals. That dates it to no earlier than 1954 when that process was invented. The cast iron turtle may be a flower frog used to hold cut flowers.
Aurora borealis? Northern light crystal?
@@teramonte7077 I have some...it's very beautiful! 💕
Maybe you can puzzle the Rolex together and reglue one of the cheaper parts to the collage.
It's a koala with probably australian opal 😊
you had a few pieces of Mexican silver. there is an interesting story to go with that. Back in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when a southwestern Native American was hired to do a job, he would specify that he be paid in silver dollars. He would take his pay to a silversmith and work out a deal with him to turn it into jewelry. The silversmith would go to a railroad track and, just before the train came by, he would lay all those coins out on the tracks. When the train came, every wheel that passed over the coins would act like a jeweler's hammer and, when it was gone, the coins would be turned into short pieces of sheet silver, which the smith would stamp and form using homemade tools. Often, you could see the old impression of the coin design
That is really interesting! I had never heard that before! Thanks for sharing!
@@starrlacey2505 The really funny part was that they would then take the jewelry to the train station and sell it to tourists from back East. The tourists would ask, "Is it sterling?" and the seller would say, "Oh yes" What neither the buyer or the seller knew was that the coin silver used at the time was actually finer (purer) than sterling. Sterling silver is 7.5%copper.
@@emmitstewart1921 thank you for that info - love to hear stuff like that!
Jewelry like that sell really good people collect and wear them
This was really fun to watch. Bet some of the bunch will do good at auction.
All my vintage Sarah Coventry jewelry looks the same as it did when I bought it in the 1960's. It was good stuff.
It was good stuff, and too expensive for me back in the day. But everybody wanted it.
@@jhn146 I could only buy one small piece at a time until I had a matching set.
Cool and fun!
hi guys,, that's a koala bear with the opal stomach. hope your all ok.
Looks like a Koala bear with Opal. Love the turtle. The Amber is beautiful. The pipes were just Wow. Awesome find y'all.
Please, not a bear
🤣🤣🤣 🇦🇺
Nice score!
It's a coalla bear,the little golden pin with blue stone
The blue china is Blue Willow and very pricey too.
I like to see you do a jewelry episode because you have respect for clearly loved pieces.
You're joking surely? He hasn't got a clue.
Hello from Denmark. If it's a jenuin opal stone, it could be a coala bear (Australia)?
It’s a koala w Australian opal!
I have my grandma’s crystal jewelry. They are precious to me. 😁❤️🎶👏🇨🇦
That was fun👍
The Opal piece looks like a koala, It might be an Australian Opal