So glad I didn't sell gold!

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Phillyfan

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I have a very heavy thick solid bangle in 14 carat gold. I put it on my wrist to drive to jewelry stores and find out how much $ I could get for it. It seems like gold is up and everyone is trading it in for cash. The longer it stayed on my wrist, the more and more I began to like it. It is very smooth on the inside and very comfortable to wear. It is shaped oval like the cartier love bracelets but it is a wide bangle floral etchings (very faint) on the outside. The first place told me I can have $360 for it. By the time I arrived at the second "We Buy Gold" store - I really began falling in love with this bracelet. But I went in anyway to see what they said which was $350. Today I took it to a jeweler to be cleaned and polished. He said it is a magnificent and well-made piece of jewelry that would cost well over $2500 to buy new today. Surfergirljenn began a "Tiffany Yours" thread that shows wide bangles in the $3-4,000 range. I am so glad I'm keeping this:)!
 
#2
Yay Hokaplan!
I remember you posting about this bracelet before; would love to see pics of it.

I sold a lot of my smaller uninteresting pieces and when gold hit 1000. I kept the heavier, more unique pieces. I love my omega and there's no way I could touch it if I tried to purchase the exact same one today.
 
#4
Kitsunegrl - Yes - I posted about this bracelet before. I wrote that I had it for 40 years and never wore it. But it had sentimental value because it was my grandmother's. I was 7 or 8 years old when she died and this item was left to me. Other posters on that thread wrote not to sell and to hold onto it for my own daughter. So I listened and I am so glad I did! I've been wearing this bracelet all day today with shorts and a t-shirt, walking dog and doing errands. And I love it!
 
#7
I sold a lot of YG when gold was low. Biggest regret!
I got nothing for it. Plus I would so wear the peices now If I had them. I was in a hate YG stage then and purged most of it.
Got verrrrrry little.

I would love to see your bangle! Please post pics.
 
#9
I always think that as long as you're not in deep debt, it's always better to hold on to jewelry. It takes up so little room, has intrinsic value, and has so much sentimental value. Even if the price of gold goes back down, I bet you still won't be able to buy a similar bracelet for the $350 that the gold buying place offered you.

Also, post pics! It sounds gorgeous!!
 
#11
I sold a bunch of broken necklaces (from the 80's) dental gold DH had from school (22kt!), earrings missing a mate, etc. Was shocked at what I made off of it. Don't care about gold prices continuing to going up. I got rid of junk I thought wasn't worth much.
My good stuff I'll never get rid of.
 
#12
I bought a VCA necklace from the $$ I got selling bits and bobs that were from my ex husband - including my (and his!) Tiffany wedding band! :graucho: My mother's jewelry, however, is way too sentimental for me to sell. I mix it in with the new stuff.

Hokaplan- I would love to see a picture of your bangle. I love old pieces!
 
#13
Hokaplan said:
I have a very heavy thick solid bangle in 14 carat gold. I put it on my wrist to drive to jewelry stores and find out how much $ I could get for it. It seems like gold is up and everyone is trading it in for cash. The longer it stayed on my wrist, the more and more I began to like it. It is very smooth on the inside and very comfortable to wear. It is shaped oval like the cartier love bracelets but it is a wide bangle floral etchings (very faint) on the outside. The first place told me I can have $360 for it. By the time I arrived at the second "We Buy Gold" store - I really began falling in love with this bracelet. But I went in anyway to see what they said which was $350. Today I took it to a jeweler to be cleaned and polished. He said it is a magnificent and well-made piece of jewelry that would cost well over $2500 to buy new today. Surfergirljenn began a "Tiffany Yours" thread that shows wide bangles in the $3-4,000 range. I am so glad I'm keeping this:)!
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Heavens! Hold onto that bangle! My mom had a solid gold bangle from the early '70s similar to yours--wide, with floral etchings. It was stolen during a robbery about a dozen years later and though she visited a score of high-end jewelry stores at the time she couldn't find anything like it. All the gold bracelets she saw were very light and thin in comparison. She was told that no one makes gold bracelets as heavy as they did back in the '60s and '70s. Lightweight and hollow rules.

Vegas Long Legs said:
I sold a bunch of broken necklaces (from the 80's) dental gold DH had from school (22kt!), earrings missing a mate, etc. Was shocked at what I made off of it. Don't care about gold prices continuing to going up. I got rid of junk I thought wasn't worth much. My good stuff I'll never get rid of.
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A few weeks ago I finally got rid of all my old gold, along with some sterling I had no idea what to do with. I was stunned, thrilled, overjoyed at how much they sent me.
 
#14
girliceclimber said:
I always think that as long as you're not in deep debt, it's always better to hold on to jewelry. It takes up so little room, has intrinsic value, and has so much sentimental value. Even if the price of gold goes back down, I bet you still won't be able to buy a similar bracelet for the $350 that the gold buying place offered you.

Also, post pics! It sounds gorgeous!!
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I second that!
 
#15
Good that you didn't sell it! I've sold a few old pieces but I'm always reluctant to let go of better pieces regardless of if I don't feel like wearing it anymore. I've actually sold some pieces I've stopped wearing which later on I started missing. I find that jewelry also goes back in style eventually. There was a time I stopped wearing YG too much because I was more in WG but now I've started wearing them again and love that I could switch from YG to WG. Also there's so much more to jewelry than the precious metal it's made of...some are really so intricately made that even if it's not my style anymore I'd feel bad scrapping it!
 
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