So you are settling the estate...

Settling the estate of a loved one can be a daunting responsibility. Making decisions about the dispersal of the tangible assets and effects left behind is often an overwhelming task that has to be handled during an emotional time. We know from personal experience that it can be difficult to know where to turn for help in evaluating and selling the personal property left in your trust.

Think about it: you would turn to a financial specialist for assistance with the stocks and other financial instruments left in the estate, so wouldn’t it make sense to turn to a specialist in estate jewelry to evaluate the contents of the jewelry box you’ve inherited? Selling those old baubles along with the rest of the estate when you don’t know their true value can actually prove to be a costly mistake.

“Our service is designed to take the guesswork and stress out of selling the jewelry in an estate, and our decades of experience in handling vintage and antique jewelry helps to ensure that you’ll get a fair deal.”

At Jewelry Buyers of Vienna, it is our privilege to work with inheritors and executors in evaluating the fine and costume jewelry that has been passed down to them. Our service is designed to take the guesswork and stress out of selling the jewelry in an estate, and our decades of experience in handling vintage and antique jewelry helps to ensure that you’ll get a fair deal.

When you schedule your free consultation with us, know that we are happy to look through all of the accumulated jewelry, both precious and fashion. (You would be surprised how much fine karat gold jewelry we find that family members have identified as “junk jewelry”.) We will identify and evaluate each individual necklace, bracelet, pin and earring that we feel has value before making a purchase offer for each piece.

Because we do not buy jewelry to send it to a refinery to be melted as scrap, we are able to offer more for your pieces. The items we buy are resold rather than destroyed for their scrap value, so you can take comfort in knowing that the jewelry that was treasured by your loved one will once again bring joy to a new owner.

And though we are confident that our offer will be the highest in the area, rest assured that you are under no obligation to accept it. Our consultations are private and pressure-free, so you don’t have to worry about taking on extra unneeded stress as you’re working towards settling your loved one’s estate. Instead, we offer fair treatment and the utmost respect for both you and the items you bring us during such a difficult time.

When you make an appointment Jewelry Buyers of Vienna, you’re making an appointment with seasoned professionals who know the true value of your items and want to offer you fair treatment and the best prices possible. You can trust us to take the stress, worry and mystery out of selling your estate jewelry.

Earth Day, Every Day

Every day is Earth Day at Jewelry Buyers of Vienna! One of our favorite things about buying vintage and estate jewelry is that we are able to find new homes for beautiful old things. And by doing that, we lessen the ecological impact of mining for precious metals and gem stones.

Recycling jewelry is simply much better for our environment than making and buying new jewelry.

When you sell us your unwanted jewelry, we find someone who will love it and give it a new life. In fact, many of our customers buy vintage and antique jewelry precisely because it is the greener alternative to adornment.

Recycling an old bracelet or ring means that no new gold, silver or gemstones are mined to create a new piece. Each piece of jewelry that finds a new owner represents a notable environmental savings. How groovy is that?

How much of a difference could recycling one piece of jewelry make? Did you know that mining and refining the gold for one typical wedding band generates 20 tons of waste? Gold mining is a dirty practice that uses cyanide, generates loads of waste, pollutes waterways with leached toxic chemicals such as mercury, and sometimes displaces communities.

“Every piece of gold jewelry that recirculates in the economy reduces the need to mine new gold, lessening the environmental impact of current gold mining processes!”

Silver mining is slightly different, as only 30% of all silver comes from actual silver mines, with the balance found as a byproduct of mining for industrial metals such as copper and zinc. Sadly, mining for industrial metals also comes with a heavy environmental cost, including the creation of arsenic emissions. And it has been estimated that global metal mining accounts for a whopping 10% of the world’s energy consumption.

So recycling silver jewelry also helps the environment. Less demand for newly mined metals means less pollution and a smaller carbon footprint for the jewelry that finds a second life.

The large industrial diamond mines that produce most of the world’s glittering stock require significant amounts of water and produce huge amounts of waste rock that can contribute to acid rock drainage. Amazingly, the average diamond in an engagement ring requires the removal of 200 to 400 million times its volume in host rock!

Colored gem stones often come from small-scale mines that may utilize lower-impact techniques. However, these mines may also present significant ecological damage due to deforestation and waterway pollution.

Obviously, if the jewelry you sell us contains diamonds or colored stones, then the environmental impact of mining for new stones is mitigated, offering one more way to help the environment.

So if you are considering selling your old jewelry to make some green, don’t forget the other green effect! One author has even suggested that “the best way for you to mitigate the impacts of gold-mining might be to make a personal pledge to keep gold in circulation. Try instituting a one-in, one-out policy for your jewelry box: Whenever you want to buy a piece of gold jewelry, take one you already have and sell it, or melt one down for refabrication. Do that, and you can glitter relatively guilt-free,” says Nina Shen Rastogi from the Slate’s Green Lantern.

Recirculating that jewelry just languishing in your jewelry box is both good for your wallet and good for the planet! So give us a call if you are thinking of recycling your jewelry.

Sources:

http://nodirtygold.earthworksaction.org/impacts#.VxksPPkrJhE

http://www.theecologist.org/green_green_living/clothing/270580/can_silver_ever_be_ethical.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/the_green_lantern/2010/08/something_old_something_new_something_borrowed_something_green.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/20/AR2010092004730.html

Let Us Take the Mystery Out of Selling Your Jewelry

Selling your jewelry can be intimidating. Perhaps you have put off selling your unwanted jewelry because you have too many questions. Questions like: “What is all this stuff tucked away in my jewelry box? What is it really worth? Are the rings Mom left me real treasures or fabulous fakes?" Or maybe you have concerns about possible buyers of your jewelry. "Will the buyer of my jewelry be honest with me? Will they make a fair offer or take advantage of me? What are they going to do with these heirlooms after they buy them? Are they going to melt Grandma’s bracelets down?”

“Selling your jewelry should not be burdensome or mysterious.”

This is where we come in! Selling your jewelry should not be burdensome or mysterious. Let us guide you through the process. We have been dealing in vintage and estate fine and costume jewelry for a combined 50 years. We love all types of jewelry and are passionate about evaluating your jewelry and letting you know as much as possible about the items you are considering selling. We strongly believe that assessing your jewelry in your presence in a private setting is the very best way to help you understand the value of your pieces and the offer we make.

Our expertise is in seeing the beauty and worth of each individual piece of vintage jewelry. We do not focus solely on the “scrap” value of the items because we recognize that there are many other factors that determine the worth of a piece of jewelry. The age of the item, the rarity, the craftsmanship, the provenance and the designer behind each piece are a few of the crucial elements that some other jewelry buyers overlook or fail to share with jewelry sellers. And our assessment of each of these elements allows us to offer you the highest possible price for your jewelry.

“Our expertise is in seeing the beauty and worth of each individual piece of vintage jewelry. ”

At Jewelry Buyers of Vienna, we buy jewelry in order to pass it on to new buyers. We do not buy jewelry to “scrap” it or send it to a refiner to be melted into ingots. We love matching jewelry that may no longer suit you with a woman who will enjoy wearing it and incorporating it in her life. Our decades of dealing with jewelry have taught us that there is someone out there just waiting to find each piece of vintage and estate jewelry.

Our jewelry buying service is all about helping you decode the pieces in your jewelry box and providing you the information so you can make an informed decision about selling your jewelry to us. Our consultations are fun and informative. They are also private, confidential, free of cost and obligation. If you would like to try our service, just give us a call at 304-917-6088. We look forward to working with you!