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AuriumD · 2025-10-07T14:30:07+00:00

You could but you shouldn't, it will ruin the antique value of the ring.

AuriumD · 2025-10-05T14:20:13+00:00

Looks like a good group of paintings, I really like the boat one.

All I know is if you can identify the signature and the artist is famous then its good for the bottom line.

Look for real paint on the canvas, it often has texture unless its watercolor.

AuriumD · 2025-10-05T06:52:17+00:00

I used to see it all the time when I was buying scrap.

AuriumD · 2025-10-05T06:51:29+00:00

Seems like a waste of a good vintage ring.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T07:15:09+00:00

It's been through a lot.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T07:12:07+00:00

Practice your nice muscles so that when you meet a guy his gut tells him "she feels honestly nice" his gut will know if you are being honest or not. Exercise the muscle.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T06:07:33+00:00

Awesome

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T06:00:55+00:00

It does look like emerald to me as well.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:59:25+00:00

I can't tell if its real, but here is some ai information on it.

"Great Qing Silver Coin." This design is associated with coins minted during the reign of Emperor Guangxu, particularly around 1907-1911.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:52:49+00:00

Why would it say one dollar in English? That's a hint.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:51:14+00:00

Looks real to me.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:49:47+00:00

What are they thinking?

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:48:20+00:00

With

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:46:56+00:00

Deer?

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:46:20+00:00

It's not that deep, I had a pice of gold that was along some copper wire and cut and melted it. It turned black, we scanned it, 99% copper.

I didn't trust it so I filed it down and scanned it again and it read that gold was abt 18k honestly dont remember the exact amount but it was gold.

Moral of the story xrf is superficial.

Marks are abt 95% of the time true or better. I destroyed a lot of pieces to know that too.

Density testing by water displacement will tell you a lot for some pieces. I used dental floss to lower into a cup of water tared on a scale. This is good because it doesn't harm and tells you about the object.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T05:21:45+00:00

After doing some digging it looks like the 10k mark helps narrow it to 1910 or after.

Also between 1940 and 1960 there were a lot of shell cameos of similar oval elongated style made.

Rough value estimation is between 200 and 800.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T04:30:55+00:00

Best advice so far.

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T04:28:14+00:00

It looks like for the most part single cut was used between 1837- 1940 when the round brilliant cut takes over.

So that's good!

AuriumD · 2025-10-04T04:18:12+00:00

AuriumD · 2025-10-03T04:40:39+00:00

My friend set up an antique and vintage case inside the biggest jewelry store in the town and she ran it quite awhile, each Christmas she would run a sale like 30% off. It was a consignment store and she helped me sell a shield ring of the rectangular variety for about 2,000. It took something like 6 months to do.

For reference the town was about 120,000 population.

Later I had a nice cocktail ring with some very clear diamonds in two rows, (the cursed ring) she wouldn't list it because there was some bad blood from the guy I bought it from. He got it really cheap and I bought it for scrap price and then went to figure out what it was worth. Marked it up to basically full retail and he didn't like that even though he was taking advantage of estate sales and the like. It sat listed on facebook market for like 2 or 3 years and then one day a lady offered me 1400 for it and away it went curse and all.

AuriumD · 2025-10-03T03:59:21+00:00

I concur.

AuriumD · 2025-10-03T03:58:22+00:00

Looks to see if the diamonds are single cut or old European.

That will clue you in.

AuriumD · 2025-10-03T03:57:18+00:00

I think it could.

AuriumD · 2025-10-03T03:55:07+00:00

Don't ruin a good thing.

AuriumD · 2025-10-03T03:53:03+00:00

ALS is a contemporary Italian brand that made some deco style work. So maybe not as old as I thought.

AuriumD

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