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Edited on Tue Sep-18-07 01:03 AM by dicksteele
I don't have that knack myself, but I once had an SO who did.
Every time (not exaggerating- EVERY SINGLE TIME!) we went to
a flea market or spent a Saturday morning hitting yard sales,
she came across some real "find".
She paid a quarter for a small gold chain that she resold for $25
to a scrap-gold buyer. Just an average day for her.
On a visit back to my hometown, we hit the indoor flea market that
every dealer within 100 miles had picked over 100 times...and she
paid $10 for a big ugly tarnished chain that ended in a flat grey stone
the size of my palm, with some dull red crystals in it.
The chain was 1/2 pound of sterling, and the pendant was a bunch of
semi-precious ruby crystals left uncut in their matrix stone. She
turned down an offer of $300 from a high-end "retro-kitsch" dealer,
just because she liked wearing it.
She had some special jewellery- magic for that kind of thing, ItellyaWhut!
Me, I once found a 10k class-ring with my metal detector;
took me 18 months and $45 worth of AA batteries to do it! :rofl:
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