Oh, that's right, the one who was gonna do that for us was that other guy, the smart, rational, dignified, dedicated public servant, the one whose votes those Diebold computers kept forgetting to record.

Anyway, I was recently diagnosed with emphysema despite having quit smoking some time ago, so I've got to sell off all these fine joolz to pay for the stuff that makes it possible to breathe. I get mad as hell when these huge, multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies get away with with charging all kinds of ridiculous prices for pills that cost a half a cent each to manufacture and then put on their halos and wings and piously announce that they're gonna use all those profits to finance development of the next generation of miracle drugs. Sounds admirable on the face of it, but fact is that most of those profits wind up in the pockets of the company's shareholders and anyway, just where is the FIRST generation of miracle drugs, huh? Well, I guess to some Viagra and Cialis would be considered miracle drugs, but those of us who are more interested in staying alive than staying the course (one of the favorite buzzwords of the New American Century) aren't buying it. You may or may not recall that I had to take a part-time job as a medical transcriptionist last year, which means I had to cram a second computer into this already- overflowing 10x10 room, which means the lucky winner of this auction will be able to open their own costume jewelry website with all the wonderful pieces I somehow haven't gotten around to putting on mine. Hey, I'll even send you the photographs to get you started!

All the jewelry shown here (and there are 23 big pictures, so please be patient while they download) is in basically excellent condition with very few exceptions, all easy fixes. Two or three probably need a stone replaced, and I think a couple of the necklaces are missing their fishooks. Otherwise, all the stones are clear and bright, the enamel isn't particularly chipped, there's no significant metal wear, and all parts are in good working order.

Altogether, I count 145 brooches and pins, some with matching earrings, and not including the darling Miriam Haskell stickpin and pair of interesting retro scatterpins; 22 necklaces (and no junky beaded fillers), not counting the 3 pendants that need chains; 29 bracelets (excluding those that belong to a set); 2 fur clips, one sterling and one early Coro; 2 pairs of dress clips plus 2 lonesome singles; 41 pairs of earrings; 1 stickpin; 6 rings; and 2 sparkling rhinestone button! A slew of designers are represented here by at least one piece: Eisenberg, Ciner, Miriam Haskell, Beau, Harry Iskin (one a particularly rare sterling bracelet), Vendome, Crown Trifari, Juliana (real DeLizza & Elster Juliana), Art, Lisner, Florenza, Coro, Pell, Barclay, Zentall, Gerrys, Bogoff, Charel, Laguna, Robert, Warner, Beaujewels, Pomerantz, Sarah Cov., Monet, Napier, Gerrys, Avon, Ann Klein, Laguna, JJ, Avon, Jolle Sterling, Giovanni, Eklund, Karu and Karu-Arke, and two fascinating mystery marks. There's There's sterling silver, porcelain, Lucite, celluloid, thermoset and thermoplastic, faux pearls, plain glass and art glass, enamel, and of course oodles and oodles of glitzy rhinestones, with a few plain goldtone and silvertone pieces thrown in for contrast. Most of it's pure Providence, but there are pieces from Czechoslovakia and Austria, and something from every period from Victorian to Vietnam and Art Nouveau through Art Deco through signed Art, with the vast majority dating from the '30s on up.

I get to have a picture all to myself 'cause I'm so curvaceous I can't lie flat on the scanner!

HAPPY BIDDING!!!

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