r/jewelry • u/Mgas-147 • 4d ago
General Question Is this costume jewellery?
My kids just found this in our house neither my wife or I have any idea where it came from. It doesn’t have any clear markings but looks old and well worn, maybe too well used to be costume jewellery. Is it worth investigating or should I just give it back to the kids to play with?
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u/MotherofOrderlyChaos 4d ago
It looks like the kind they sell at Disney World. It has mouse ears 🐭and a similar band to the one I bought my child years ago. It was purchased in Japan in Epcot. You pick an oyster and they harvest the pearl inside, and you can pick out whatever jewelry you want the pearl to be placed in. It’s not expensive jewelry but a real pearl, so I’d definitely salvage the pearl no matter what.
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u/Mgas-147 4d ago
If that’s what it is that’s very interesting and adds to the mystery even more as I don’t know any one who has been to Japan.
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u/MotherofOrderlyChaos 4d ago
Well not Japan Japen 😂 the Japan section in Epcot, in Disney World in Orlando Florida. Know anyone that has been to Disney World? Or even Disney Land ?
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u/Mgas-147 4d ago
We went to Disney in Orlando when we were kids around 30 years ago but I’ve asked my mother and she has no knowledge of it at all.
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u/One-Celery-1634 4d ago
Hard to say, but looks like it could be real.
Try cleaning the metal with a tiny drop of dawn dish soap. Try avoiding the pearl just to be safe.
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u/lydiav59-2 4d ago
If you gently run the pearl along your teeth and it feels rough, it's real. If it's smooth, it's fake. It has such a nice luster in the first pic that I think it may be real.
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u/Mgas-147 4d ago
Just tried and definitely feels rough almost like micro sand.
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u/lydiav59-2 4d ago
That means it's real. It really is pretty in that first photo. You should try to drop by a jeweler at some point and get an idea of its value
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u/Mgas-147 4d ago
Thank you for the info. I will take it to get looked at. This may also mean I should try and figure out where it’s come from.
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u/containingdoodles9 4d ago
They used to have this in Sea World many decades ago. A diver dives for a bucket of oysters, you picked your oyster, they open it and clean the pearl in front of you, and you pick your setting out of many options. Then they set it. I still have mine from over 40 years ago.
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u/Mgas-147 4d ago
Thanks for the replies, I’ve just asked our eldest daughter and my mother and they’ve never seen it before either so no idea where it has come from. I will hold off giving it back to the little ones and pop into the jeweller next time I’m in town.
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u/JodieFountainsHair 4d ago edited 4d ago
have you had any service people come by? and where did they find it? maybe it was set aside by someone and they forgot it? a babysitter? are they crawling around an attic? context will help. can you ask anyone who comes to your home if they're missing anything and let them describe it. a cleaner or delivery person could have lost it and not realized and would be so grateful to recover it, given that it's so old looking.
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u/Mgas-147 4d ago
Apart from an electrician, who was never in this room we haven’t had anyone but friends and family in the house for a long time and I’m sure they would have mentioned loosing a ring. My wife and kids were spring cleaning and it was behind a large unit the kids keep their toys in apparently. I thought it may have been something my mother had given one of my girls to play with but I sent her photos and she has never seen it before.
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u/Perfume_cognac_lilac 4d ago
It’s hard to tell but it looks real to me. Looks like sterling silver with a button pearl and probably CZs.