A $2 Tudor (trash or treasure?)

[alwayshere]

it honestly baffles me how people don't even bother to do just 1 minute of research on brands of watches before they sell.

amazing find! hope you can restore it

[JoJo78]

Originally Posted by alwayshere

it honestly baffles me how people don't even bother to do just 1 minute of research on brands of watches before they sell.

amazing find! hope you can restore it

Thank you!

Baffles me as well, but I've gotten use to it over the years in my travels "picking". With an aging population, mostly the younger generation (my generation) don't really care about or never paid too much attention to when mom/dad/grandma/grandpa were telling them stories about particular old objects and how expensive they are or could be. Mostly my Gen just looks at the stuff as "junk" if it's not an electronic device. This is how I'm able to obtain a piece such as the Tudor for $2, or the Ming Dynasty bronze below for $6, or the thousands of year old artifacts and a 1920s-30s platinum & gold 9.72 ct. diamond men's ring for a few hundred dollars.

[Wahlberg]

Originally Posted by JoJo78

Thank you!

Baffles me as well, but I've gotten use to it over the years in my travels "picking". With an aging population, mostly the younger generation (my generation) don't really care about or never paid too much attention to when mom/dad/grandma/grandpa were telling them stories about particular old objects and how expensive they are or could be. Mostly my Gen just looks at the stuff as "junk" if it's not an electronic device. This is how I'm able to obtain a piece such as the Tudor for $2, or the Ming Dynasty bronze below for $6, or the thousands of year old artifacts and a 1920s-30s platinum & gold 9.72 ct. diamond men's ring for a few hundred dollars.

How did you discover it was from the Ming dynasty, so that's a $$.$$$ amount museum piece?

[JoJo78]

Originally Posted by Wahlberg

How did you discover it was from the Ming dynasty, so that's a $$.$$$ amount museum piece?

I got into the Asian (Chinese) market a couple years after the 2008 economic crisis. Antiques and fine art from Europa took a downturn shortly after the crisis and the only thing that was moving upward then was Asian works of art. So, with a lot of studying, trial/error, I was able to "train my eye" for the what is and what isn't within that field. I'm no expert by any means, but I know enough to move me ahead of most other "pickers".

I was offered four-figures for the bronze figure, but turned it down. One can almost always make some sort of cash, but figures such as the one here don't always come to the block so to speak. I was also offered four-figures for that silver ring (it use to belong to the dudes father linked below) by an antiquities dealer, but turned that down as well (low-baller). Sadly, the former owner(s) had no idea what it was and polished the thing to deaf to make it look all pretty and shiny. Now, it's sitting in the safe deposit box hoping to regain its thousands of years of patina back :)

Link: https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5425300