Did some sourcing today with the pawn broker.
I took my advice from Brad with me.
I felt completely confident. It's awesome having these new tools in my toolbox.
I didn't let the guy bully me.
Although had I not spoken up right away,
I think he would have tried.
We got a conference room at the library.
Spread all of the jewelry out and I was able to go through it and pick out what I wanted.
I got about 30 pounds. This is about 2/3 of it
I paid about $10 a pound which I think is pretty fair considering what I got.
I have paid $10 a pound from Shop Goodwill and gotten almost nothing but garbage.
There was not a lot of super vintage in there but I probably got 50 nice costume rings
I got a few nice vintage brooches, some screw back and about 20 pair of clip on Monet earrings but not as much Vintage as I would have liked.
This lot was more contemporary but, I did get some good signed pieces, some sterling, crazy cool bone necklaces, I even found a tiny 10k antique locket in there.