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GREAT FINISHES 2024 APRIL MAY JUNE

Startin off with a bang! Trifari https://www.ebay.com/itm/186366662184?hash=item2b64519628%3Ag%3AAQ0AAOSwcEFmBWaX&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&campid=5336393638&customid=&toolid=10049 Unusual Florenza https://www.ebay.com/itm/335317861520?...

The family of Schreiner Jewelry Post

The family of Schreiner Jewelry are still alive and kicking. Mom, Terry, is 89, and can't believe how my parents, and grandfathers creations have become so collectable. My dad's , Ambros, famous ruffle pin retailed for $7.50 in the mid 1950ss. It now...

Our ID'd Makers Marks

I am starting this topic in the hopes that we can create a permanent resource for our members. Please add images and research information for any Modern or Vintage Jewelry Marks.

Research & Reference Links Library

This Topic is for the sole purpose of providing resources for the accurate identification of items in our personal collections and to be placed for sale on ebay. Please feel free to add Links to Sites that you have found helpful.

Learning the trade

I am really new to this selling stuff any ideas on the best resources to learn?

Makersmark help

My other will gold find yesterday. These earrings are 14kp simple hoops but they have a mark I cannot find. Looking at it I see a large S with a G inside the top quadrant of the S. Mu research has yielded nothing. Any thoughts are welcome. Just an fy...

Help with funny color on plated jewelry

Happy Labor Day.....hope I'm not interrupting your picnic. I have this brooch/bracelet set that I can't determine what color the plating is. In hand it looks like rose gold and copper had a baby and this is the result. Very shiny. Reminds me a bit of...

Is There No End?

To the madness??? It`s bad enough that while buyers are looking at our stuff..they get to see same item from other sellers on our selling page at the same time. And now..reading this... Ebay contacts buyers after a sale to show them they could have '...

Hazy, hot and NASTY Eye Candy Wednesday

Here on the East Coast we're getting cooked. Anyone got any eye candy hotter than the thermometer?Keep the images smaller to speed loading, and as always no live auction stuff. NFS - Dominican amberLong sold - Whiting & DavisJames Avery, also long so...

Better shot of the dangle and a weird knot

Here's the same dangle from eysterday i am trying to identify--i did my best to get a good shot. I have no guess about what it might be.

Three more today!

So this first one has a dangle that i don't even know where to start with since it's not a letter! And how would i describe the glass beads? They just look like faceted cut glass beads to me?

Today's questions!

I am limiting it to 3 per day, but as I keep going through the jewelry I keep finding things that i have no idea about. The first is this garnet rope--I think this is just called a braided rope? It has no clasp

OT: Ebay, You Are So Confused

So I'm going through the new listings in one of my customized searches and I make a slight change to my search criteria. When I click on "Save This Search" Ebay wants me to sign in. Uh, I'm already in my account, Ebay.

Help with necklace material

Hi,I have had this necklace for quite a while - didn't know what it was when I got it - and still don't!Looking at others on ebay, I would have thought it is the so called cherry amber bakelite.However, it does not test bakelite with simichrome.It do...

JULY- AUGUST GREAT FINISHES!

Here is where to post (ok....BRAG) on a great sale you`ve had or one you`ve watched, or just stumbled upon. Please..Ended sales only..no live listings, nor items you have found to sell.

Coro or Not Coro ?

I have had this for sometime now I found one close to mine but mine has a chain instead of beads. It looks like the chain Coro uses my is Unmarked the one I found on eBay is marked on the clasp but the clasp is different than mine also. What do you t...

Can someone tell me Jewelry maker on sterling piece

I have this sterling piece with the word Bear and a bear claw/paw on the back. Have not been able to discover who the maker is though, in a google search. Would anyone be able to shed light on this for me? Thank you!

Does this look like a thin slice of carnelian in middle brooch?

It is translucent. Also what era do the brooches look like?

help with two costume pin / brooch marks

Any ideas on how to interpret the marks on the backs of these two pins? The first is the gold tone stylized cross with the faux baroque pearl center. The second is an early 20th cent.? filigree pin with purple stones. Any help would be most appreciat...

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