Anyone have a good resource of where to find a good acid testing kit/solutions?? I’m skeptical as the last couple I’ve got from Azn have either been bad or questionable.. thank you friends 😎

Hi friends, I’m on a hunt to purchase the Ann Pittman Juliana reference book.. anyone have one for sale or know the best place to find one? 🩷. Thank you

Can anyone help me identify this brooch? I’ve hunted online for hours, with no luck finding this exact brooch. Please???

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.

Hello how is everybody doing?