I often talk about how I am happy to take in old gold pieces you might own and give you a scrap credit towards new work I can do for you. I have also often talked about how I am happy to work with your stones as I believe firmly you retain the most amount of value by keeping them. So here are some pictures of what I can do for you. One of my regular readers (Hi Helen!) brought in some old gold and stones she had:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIlFY9cGQJj4kebaA-lXMSlNSczVuDDx8kBmIFRBahBSoq4fbDepzns6YrRZYjN6vJwtYsSoKsj5RpY2aZs8zCkC0CG8bA4B8Jgih18Yaqs0aVn1XkK-LOA1vmP9xq8KqIpAPfOe0WNA/s1600/scrap.JPG) |
gold scrap |
If you look at the small pile in the lower center of the picture you'll see two pieces with diamonds in them and a jade pendant. Helen wanted to reuse these stones and some of my fancy colored sapphires in a pendant design based on my black mobe pearl rings pendant:
![18k and 22k gold pendant with South Sea black mobe pearl, sapphires, diamonds and emerald. black flat pearl surrounded by concentric rings, white, pink and green stones](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqmgj7JI7XXJ0JkHMkuyquWbvIwfFB4rIel_2rlBtPsiqIYyppquMqZjtt9aBSeNzdqxKJEc3zkOWN_CoMOhyK95QIT57vK4tuLDTJVfx5o5TZZvwjPAbhyTUcKdK32XI_jPum2JQEn0/s1600/MabeNecklace24-LO.JPG) |
18k and 22k gold pendant with South Sea black mobe pearl, sapphires, diamonds and emerald. |
I was able to give Helen a $900 credit towards the job and this is what I came up with for her:
![18k and 22k yellow gold pendant with jade, diamonds and fancy colored sapphires green stone pendant with concentric rings around it and white and pink/orange stones](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHICk9qpJxyALz4_krctZv3RY8yoa58TqLga4Ix1wTDy2mXet06dKvrVU289EEVSZ-oxeq6XvsWavK6O0wtAVSIEXP11RI7SPUTjJb6LBqZuzSvHwAhCo0MXIOE0XUTa8ugmPATvwphNI/s1600/jade+2.JPG) |
18k and 22k yellow gold pendant with jade, diamonds and fancy colored sapphires |
I enjoyed working on this project because I happen to like the design to begin with, I was able to utilize a number of her stones in it, and we came up with something that was beautiful all at the same time.
So if you have a bunch of old stuff lying around somewhere bring it in and let's see what we can work out together!
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