Selling/valuing some diamond earrings

[sidekickdmr]

Hi Folks,

I know its not a watch, but this seemed like the best place.

I have been gifted a set of rather unique 1 of 1 diamond skull ear-rings with the proceeds to go to local charities.

To do the charities proud I would like to raise a fair valuation/sale to benefit the local community as much as possible.

They are not worth MEGA money, I think between 1-2K, but can anyone recommend a good method of fair valuation and sale of these?

Thanks

Kieran

[anonymous-user]

Isn't most Jewellery worth scrap value. I suspect you are going to be really, really disappointed at what they are worth.

[Geertsen]

A good quality auctioneers will give you an idea.

[Tall_martin]

When selling my ex wife's diamond solitaire diamond ring I was offered between 10% and 15% of the purchase price 2nd hand.

So good luck!

[sidekickdmr]

Yep, not holding out any hope, I have bonhams auctions appraising them this week so I'll keep you updated!

[anonymous-user]

Tall_martin said:

I was offered between 10% and 15% of the purchase price 2nd hand.

Sounds about right to me. I was in Hatton Garden last year looking at jewellery and spotted quite a few guys in their 30s/early 40s with their Instagram wannabe younger girlfriends looking at diamonds for rings.

The men tried to make out they knew what they were looking at, but when a diamond is put in front of you and you are told it is £20K and your girlfriend who is out of your league looks wise is all excited what are you going to do?

I suspect some of these men were utterly taken to the cleaners because the sales person knew they were not getting sex if they didn't buy it.

[Sy1441]

It's a reasonably simple algorithm multiplying the four K's of the stone by the market price to give a value then it's scrap on the precious metal. I ran pawnbrokers across the UK and Ireland for a while and the difference between Retail, Insurance Valuation and Resale values were wild as intimated above.

[minimalist]

A friend of mine was discussing a woman he was seeing. He causally mentioned she had "ring-worm". I've never heard that term used with regard to people before so asked what he meant. He explained how her behaviour changes whenever she is in close proximity to a jewellers.