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:
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| 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:
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| 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:
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| 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!
