So today I spent $17 just to get into the only decent antique show in Nashville all year. Normally lots of very high priced to outrageously priced items. I am talking thinks like very nice old ceramic pitchers for $1700 and up. The only casino items I saw were some old wheels of fortune (one from H E Evans) but even that one was not worth $1600 to me. There were no casino chips, poker chips, tokens, dice or anything normally of interest to me.

So I am in the corner of the main building and start looking at a lady's jewelry case. First thing I saw was the necklace in the scan which was marked as 14K. I also started looking at a few others things she had but some were marked 10K or 14K and were only plated. I went back to the car to get my gram scale just to see if the necklace was worth the $75 she wanted for it. After beating on it for 15 minutes I still could not get it to start up without giving an error message. GRRRRRR. I decided to buy the necklace anyway since it seemed reasonably heavy. It only had to weigh about 3-4 grams to be worth the money she wanted for it. We negotiated and I got it for $60. After going thru the rest of the show I asked a coin dealer if he had a scale I could use to weigh the necklace (since I was thinking of buying a few more things at least I could compare them by weight to the necklace.) He sold me 2 batteries for my scale which didn't help at all and then weighed the necklace which was 6.4 grams. Yeehaw - I just paid $60 for $140 worth of gold I went back to her table before leaving and bought the earrings and a Brass 1939 Worlds Fair book marker. (I used to have one very similar and I know it was worth $35 until it finally broke after I used it for 25 years). I paid $40 for the second lot and the earrings weigh approx. 5 grams and are also 14K. So all told I got almost $250 in gold value for $100 plus the book marker. Not a bad start to the yard sale season

Now all I have to do is get on Ebay and find a replacement gram scale. The fun is in the hunt!