Treasures from Mixed Bags of Jewelry at the Thrift Store
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2017
- I had a whole lot of fun looking through these bags of jewelry (more like odds and ends) and hopefully you enjoy the video!
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The most beautiful thing in this video- is that little baby's cute hand.
Worth more than all the other stuff......:)
I agree. Made me smile.
That Watch is a William Ellery and Abraham Lincoln used to have one of those watches... Really cool!
Funny he says it does not have any markings. But it has markings all over it.
Yeah the watch in better conditions has been valued at around $400
Wow, I showed my whole family this and we were all shocked that the stuff we got rid of while moving actually ended up with someone! I recognized the charizard card and harry potter card immediately. I have a story for pretty much every item you showed in the video lol! There a bunch of random things b/c we had a big nerdy family into everything you could imagine. It seems like most of our stuff stayed together, how cool. It made us all reminisce about the time around when we still had these things. For some reason I want to thank you! Your videos are super interesting and this little coincidence made me want to subscribe!
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Wow!
Yeah right
Was that little "eagle chess piece" a miniature Maltese Falcon?
🐂💩
I love your precious little helper. :-)
The pocket watch movement was purchased first, back then, and usually taken to a case maker/jeweler to put it in a case. That's why the different serial numbers. The watch movement serial number is on the movement itself. Also the case is called a "Double Hunter".
The Kay Day coin is a metal typer lucky arcade token. There are no two of them alike, because the machine made each coin customizable to a point. They were pretty popular in the sixties and seventies, sort of like customizable dog tags that came later on. They used to have tons of those machines around amusement parks and outside practically every Woolworth store. Most are worth anywhere from 2 to 20 bucks now, the rarest ones being the red ones. You got a 5 buck one.
Some cool finds there in the bag. thanks for sharing.
Haha I love the little hand grabbing at the bag
Knife has mother of pearl. Really cute knife. Great stuff.
Lots of good stuff in the bag. I'm glad that it paid off for you. The thrift store jewelry bags that I see are always priced very high. I really like the garnet ring!
The first ring is garnet (I used to do jewelery) PRETTY RING!
I love the babies hand ,soooo cute!!🤗
The Jade piece with writing is Japanese word " Love", you got a Good find shopping!!! Sincerely Amy mama and family here in Japan👩👨👧👧🐱🗻🗾❤❤❤❤
That Turtle is Cinnabar. Your Baby is so adorbs!😚🙏 Thanks for the Video! Keep up the good Work!
Thanks for the video.
Wow. The jade is great! Nice finds!
I go to church thrift shop(s) and make amazing finds all the time.Old 1st edition books,old(civil war era) cancelled checks,jewelry etc.... it is an addictive hobby and i do it just for fun. Thanks for sharing👍
Be sure the "plastic" older jewelry isn't Bakelite as it is very valuable. It is heaver than plastic and denser. Check to see if the lightest plastic necklaces have W. Ger., or W Germany on the metal clasps. The metals are very very light and I can't recall what it is made off but it seems post WWII metal. The W German jewelry is usually nature or mid century design and very colourful. It is all very light as it was sent back for trade via the air flights from delivering foods etc. need in W. Germany. They and other items for trade were shipped back rather than haul empty planes home for more food shipments. Planes were the only way anything could be delivered post WWII when Berlin was divided East from West as a compromise. Once the Berlin wall was taken down regular transportation allowed regular items so they stopped making this.
I have a very heavy West German gold plated steel chain necklace and other West German costume jewellery that I have seen was also heavy.
Or lucite
What a fun video! Thanks for sharing your mini treasure hunt with us.
The timex indeglow glows in the dark. I had the same one! The pocket watch is really cool.
The little statue looks like the Maltese Falcon. The gem in the silver ring looks more like a blue topaz than turquoise.
That "Kay Day" good luck token looks like its from an old arcade style machine similar to the souvenir penny roller things you see everywhere now. You would put like 25-50 cents in and then choose what letters you wanted, and the machine would use dies to punch the letters into the token. I've used the machine before, looks just like it.
The first ring you showed is gorgeous, that is something I would buy, I have a similar one, I think the stone is a garnet, not a ruby...nice haul...
Martine Bangs yep that's a garnet
Yeah and the second ring is dyed howlite, it's common to make fake turquoise.
Martine Bangs send me one.
Nice find and best of best..yeah
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Absolutely, a garnet. Rubies are much lighter in color and either reddish pink or straight on red.
Put beads or stones to your upper lip; if they feel cold and stay cold they are not glass, but actual stone. The black beads look like Jet or Onyx. A tip, always study your black stones, black opals are worth more than gold and are very, very rare!!!!
Thanks!
Another possibility for black in jewelry is spinel gemstone.
Toria Butterfly A black Spinel would be a nice find.
Sharon Martin this is Toria,. I'll have to figure out how to show you my black Spinel and amethyst earrings.
Toria Butterfly Maybe you could put a link to a picture here.
:) I love the little hand that keeps reaching for the loot. hahaha that's so cute! Great Idea, Im going to start looking. Thanks
The chubby hand is the best part.
Pocket watch is your most valuable item. The movement is covered, it has sapphire jewels.
It is probably late 1800's. Sell it to a watchmaker who will take care of it and restore it.
yeah great big bold "watch band or bracelet" if your a Viking!
The pocket knife, if not mother of pearl, usually white colours and the inside of a shell, or abalone may well be Paua from New Zealand. Im a knife collector and have one just the same that was made in NZ. They were tourist items in the 60s - 70s. Paua is similar to abalone. Its the lining of one of our native shellfish and very beautiful and highly coloured when polished. Blues and greens with streaks of other colours. Its used a lot in tourist items here
The "little loop" at the top of your cross is called a bail & the knife is made of paua abalone shell
Cool finds in the bags. On the small knife is mother of pearl.
That sweet baby hand kept me here!💕
Wow!!! Great finds !!! ( gotta go back there again 👍🤒👋😁😎🙋♀️
Aaahhhh I love that tiny abalone shell knife. It's so cute, and I love abalone shell.
The dark shell on the pocket knife is abalone and the white shell is mother of pearl
The coloured shell looks alot like paua from New Zealand as a farmer I'd love love to have that pocket knife
All of the thrift stores around where I live either have volunteers with way too much time on their hands, so they look up every piece of jewelry they get and overprice it, or it's Goodwill and their jewelry comes pre-sorted so as not to be valuable. 😣
that watch is your ultimate find, i see them for like 500+ dollars
This is a clever and exciting way to treasure hunt!
That ring though 🔥🔥🔥
Love the video! I had never seen any videos like this until today. I love thrift stores; am always looking for something I can sell, but never looked for jewelry. What a cool idea. Thanks! Maybe someday I will have a video with my thrift store finds!
That eagle looks like Sam Eagle from The Muppet Show.
Also, awww, cute little baby hands with cute little dimples!!!
I looked up similar Wm Ellery pocketwatches and its from the civil war era;1864. Onw was worth $800 and another worth $15,000!
Absolutely love the heart locket and the Pokémon Charizard card and the pocket watch I’ve always been a huge fan of them 😊
And the knife is beautiful to 😮
SWEEEET SCORE!! That’s awesome!
Grade: A.T. & Co.
Manufacturer: Waltham
Manufacturer Location: Waltham, Massachusetts
Movement Serial Number: 5095
Grade: A.T. & Co.
Model: 1857
Estimated Production Date: July 1857
Run Quantity: 100
Total Production: 65,278
Size: 18s
Jewels: 16j
Movement Configuration: Either
Movement Finish: Gilt
Movement Signing Style: Mixed
Movement Inlay Color: None
Movement Setting: Key
Plate: Full Plate
Regulator: Undersprung
Adjusted: Yes
Adjusted to Position: Yes
Movement Markings: Appleton, Tracy & Co.
Waltham
Data Research: 1954 Waltham "Gray Book" List
c.1900 Waltham Factory Ledgers
looks like fun
Thank you for the awsome video!
Garnet ring is gorgeous! I like the jade pendant, also very pretty!
Civil war era watch made by Waltham. You had a big score for the $17 investment. The Jade pennant with
" love " symbol on it is probably worth enough to surprise you.
Love the little hand!
You got a good store there,,, around here all that stuff is gone through with a fine tooth comb before it ever goes into a bag
Luv the ring so. Much!!
i find 2 wedgewood silver necklaces today at ours in the UK and a silver flower necklace.all real aswel was well happy x
💔 sad to see a 1800's key wind pocket watch in that condition. They usually only run around $50-160 in that condition but they're still a pretty cool piece of history. Usually if you see that hole in the back it's for a key that would be used for winding the watch and that was replaced with stem winding in about the early 1900's.
IDKBOB TA
stripping that watch for an ounce of silver, is just pointless destruction.
one of my pet hates i see silver dealers at sales here in the uk bulk buying these just to melt, so sad greedy bastards.
I hope to have this watch end up in the hands of someone who will appreciate it rather than melt the silver case.
glad to see others who think an old item has a right to be respected
@@CoinMetallurgist Did you get the watch fixed?
hes not stripping it dude wtf? hes selling it
Fantastic Buys and a great video too, definitely subscribed for more!
On the Jade thing is writen 愛 that kanji means Love
The jade charm is worth $85
I love going through jewelry bags! I go through them on my channel and love seeing what other people find in theirs.
+Princess Casserole It sure is fun. You never know what you'll get.
You killed it, man. I guess I need to go thrifting now
Every few times I go I find something worth buying.
Lol here All jewelry is in a locked glass counter..even trash and broken costume stuff. The only thing in bags are plastic trash.
Your knife is Mother of pearl. Fun stuff.
I like that little knife. The one with the Mother of Pearl inlays! NICE!!
Thanks!
abalone is the name you're looking for in regards to the keychain knife but on something that small, novelty like, it's most likely an acrylic made to look like shell. nice haul over all though. good job.
Not a ruby --- wishful thinking.... - it is likely a garnet. . .
Yes, obviously a garnet duh.
Wow you found a lot of good stuff I have not been as lucky the most I have found was a few mismatches sterling silver earrings and once a vintage little sterling cross
+Gen'kalovesmakeup keep looking you never know what you'll find!
That timex watch is one of the first watches that lit up if i re call i had one after that 1 came out
Nice finds there!
The jade pendant has the kanji Ai, Japanese word for Love. With the knife the word is Mother of Pearl.
On that chains at the end there. Staneless steel will mimic the result for platmum. And also gold test well not do anything to it.
Amazing grab bags!! First ring looks like a garnet, still gorgeous. Good Job!!
How about the jade pendent with the gold trim pieces?
The big bracelett which looks as silver, but isn't may be made from Alpaca or German Silver.
It's an alloy made of copper, nikkel and zink. Very often used for jewellery.
Thanks!
great finds!
If you google pocket watch by william ellery. It comes up that he was making watches in the late 1800's. parts can be found on Ebay. But some complete watches were selling for over $600. Please comment when you look yours up. Thanks
The timex watch is an indeglo watch which means is you leave it under a light the face will glow blue. Came out in the late 80's and didn't make it into the 90's
Nice haul from the Goodwill...check out the Volunteers of America too...BTW, the handles on the small pocket knife are Abalone...and it is a type of Mother of Pearl...good video....!!!
Nice finds !
wow! amazing and interesting 👍❤️
Oh my, i’d be happy to try. By the way, non-gold and non-silver falls in the range of “costume” jewelry which can be expensive and collectible. On this video, I would mention that a ruby is very expensive and rare. A garnet is also red but I would think that both would more likely be set in gold so as to match the quality of the gem. I suspect your ring has a glass stone, however. The bauble you note as “jade”is green, but it seems on my screen to be garish and I suspect it could be plastic. There is a fascinating tale delight and artistry concerning vintage and antique jewelry.
Very cool finds. :)
That package of amber looking drop beads are not from Czechoslovakia, it just means the way they were made. I'm a 'Bead-A-Holic', and for over a decade I worked in the Bead Dept of a craft store, and taught beading. Pretty beads tho - I have about 150 in assorted colors lol. Interesting finds, and cute that you have a 'helper' in the beginning ;)
dragunn tiss too bad they're not something cool like genuine Baltic Amber or hardened copal resin
Very nice little knife!
I just happened upon your channel and I love the idea of going through these bags to find silver and gold!! I got a bin full of beads and things to make jewelry with but I have no idea how to rest things. I’ll be sure to find out how to do that. Thanks for the idea. I also love finding so many cool little things!!
I bought a bag full of jewelry from Savers thrift store and was rummaging through it when I came across a pin made with a 2" perrana 🐟. It made me mad so I took it back to the store.
Same store I found a gold house with a car in the driveway with ruby and sapphire flowers. It was about 1"×1" in a plastic bag marked $2.99. I looked on the back for 14K but couldn't see anything. The back wasn't smooth but had wavy designs, the kind that they put on cheap jewelry in the 25c plastic cups by the gumball machines. It looked real. I put it back two times then looked real close and they had put the 14K in the wavy texture making it totally camouflaged. A coin dealer gave me $120 for it.
My thrift store just has wads of plastic junk ! If I were u I would stay on top of the one you go to , and buy every bag they put out.
That pocket knife the handle is made its mother of pearl
That Timex Clock is a Neat one inside computor's hidden places! ¨a whole book¨
Some real nice bargains there. Well worth what you paid for the bags. 👍👍
The Little pocket knife is "Mother of Pearl" inlay. Timex watches, we all had them as kids in the 60's and 70's.
I would so buy that pocket watch. I honestly love old pocket watches for some reason but it looks super cool!
That pocket watch is a William Ellerby. He was a silversmith. I'm sure someone told you but what a find. Congrats. www.925-1000.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25423
wow thats awesome stuff bud. i wish we had good thrift stores here. we just have goodwill.
That gold plated Pokémon is a Burger King exclusive from 1999 and is worth $14-$90. Nice find
how about a ment mew two with protective casing?
KnightX187 what is it from?
@@MrUnknownCOD its one of the BK stuff like his but its been kept put up all these years, just never looked into how much its worth.
Great finds! The stone in the ring is not a ruby it is a garnet.
Waltham's watch factory designed and mass-produced a low-cost watch, the William Ellery model. Selling for an unbelievable $13.00, these watches became a fad with Union soldiers.
how much could it be worth now though?
yes but dont assume that due to being mass produced that it is worthless, i mean 19th century mass production is still low,
and how many survived?
its all relative
I loved my walthams I have a 10k and 925
Bernard Summers. I love to learn thank you. But $13. back then was alot of money.
I just found some nice jewelry with my metal detector. Two rings are tanzanite and are probably worth about $500. each & 925 S.
Then there is an old fashion art deco ring with ruby & eighter sapphires or diamonds says S925 on the inside so not bad for a days work.
Normally you find tons of junk but I've gotten lucky too thanks to the War of 1812. Many people buried their stuff to keep it from the British. The British burned most of the town here down & I guess alot was just left behind.
I feel sorry that all that happened to them but all I can do is treat my finds with respect & thank those past soles that lost their loved belongings.
I think jewelry should make you feel something, should talk to you. Not just;"How much is it worth?"
Sure I care about the "value" too but say it's a ring a family member passed down to you, wouldn't that make it super valuable to you?
The shell on pocket knife looks like abalone...that pocket watch looks like a military watch. Good finds!🥰
That tiny knife is beautiful
wow awesome scores, so amazing what you can find :) great job
Thanks!
That Charizard is from 1999 Burger King collectible card set. Made out of brass but with that gold plating. The condition it's in it's about 10$ look it up on eBay
Thank you for the info.
kingpotatoman I remember those.
I have a few of those
1999 gold plated range around 45 to $100 depending on the buyer...it better if you Googled it
If anyone's interested in buying them let me know. Downsizing my collections comes with ball and card
You did great buddy
That Timex watch sold for about $20 new. Indiglo means that the face glows when you press the crown in, and yes, it's battery powered. As for it not being that old, you've probably got stuff in the back of your freezer older than that watch.
There are things that not silver and gold still valuable. I found vintage police badge in jewelry, it sold for over $130 at auction
I simply adore that eagle
i love that little timex! although they arent worth much, I love the 'old' ones. indiglo is their patent on the illumination they use on their watch dials.
Which they on the use anymore it's called radium and is radioactive.
The first ring is a garnet not a ruby and the blue stone definitely isn't a turquoise. it looks like cz or something.