It was the end of the day and everyone was packing up. I was walking back to my car and I saw a man take a teapot out of the back of his truck and lay it on the ground. I asked him why I did not see it earlier. He said he put it back in…

I make my living as a professional picker. I leave no stones unturned when it comes to finding something that I can make money with. If it is scrap metal, antiques, art, jewelry or anything else I have a market for it and I am the best at…

I was at, what I call, a trash to more trash sale when I was on a drive in up state New York. It was one of those auctions where the same people come every week to bid on an assortment of items ranging from garden tools to used furniture…

I had a ring in my drawer that was given to me by a girlfriend years ago. Our relationship ended shortly there after. I needed some cash for the weekend so I took the ring to GMZ Jewelers. It turned out to be a real diamond grouping with a…

I was prodding through a thrift store one day as I often do and I came across an unique piece of jewelry. The thrift store manager must have thought well of it as it was in a showcase by the register. The design was a classic Art Nouveau…

I found this delicate set of stemware at an estate sale. I would have kept it but our lifestyle is far from delicate and they probably would never get used. My wife suggested that I take them to GMZ Jewelers as they were that kind of…

My mother had this gold and diamond cuff link in her jewelry drawer. I asked about it one day and she told me that she found it and it has been in her box ever since. She had been putting off replacing the counter in her kitchen. I…

It was certainly big and beautiful but was it authentic? The cameo slider that my grandmother wore had remained in my mother jewelry box for as long as I could remember. My mother never wore it because she said cameos were bad luck. Now…

After our mother passed we were left with an estate to settle. Our father was a very successful business man and had left the house and pretty much everything else to her. When going through the house we realized that she had over 50 years…

I was at, what I call, a trash to more trash sale when I was on a drive in up state New York. It was one of those auctions where the same people come every week to bid on an assortment of items ranging from garden tools to used furniture…

It was the end of the day and everyone was packing up. I was walking back to my car and I saw a man take a teapot out of the back of his truck and lay it on the ground. I asked him why I did not see it earlier. He said he put it back in…

I am a professional poker player but like most of us I started out playing in games locally with friends and acquaintances. Back then it was cash on the table not chips and when someone was out of cash anything could show up from a watch…

I make my living as a professional picker. I leave no stones unturned when it comes to finding something that I can make money with. If it is scrap metal, antiques, art, jewelry or anything else I have a market for it and I am the best at…

My mother had a beautiful engagement ring that she and I kept as our secret. It was given to her by an old suitor but the relationship ended with the second world war when she met my father. A classic ?Dear John? situation. My financial…

It was just a gold chain that hung from a mans vest years ago from what I was led to believe. It looked and felt like gold but it was not marked anywhere that I could see. I brought it to GMZ Jewelry in New York to possibly sell it. They…