18 Pieces Of Jewelry Hiding In Your Mother's Dresser Drawer That Are Secretly Worth A Fortune

Open the top drawer of your mother's dresser, the one with the tangled chains, the single earrings and the little boxes nobody has touched since she stopped wearing them, and there may be a piece in there worth more than everything else in the drawer combined. In this video I walk through eighteen pieces of jewelry that turn up again and again in ordinary dresser drawers across America, from brooches and clip-on earrings to bracelets, rings, watches and necklaces, the kind of things families sweep into a bag on the last day of clearing a house because nobody ever stopped to turn them over. I am Roy Danforth, and for thirty-eight years I have been buying and pricing estate sales, flea markets and antique mall booths across the Ohio Valley and the Midwest, and I have watched more real money leave a house in a single dresser drawer than almost anywhere else in the home. I will be honest with you from the start, most of what is in that drawer is exactly what it looks like, modest jewelry worth a modest amount, and I am not going to inflate that for you. But scattered through it, easy to walk right past, there are signed pieces, real gold, genuine stones and sought-after makers that collectors are paying serious money for today. For every piece on this list, I will show you what to check, the signature, the hallmark, the clasp and the construction, so you know within a minute whether what you are holding is ordinary or genuinely valuable, and how to tell a real piece from a later copy carrying a borrowed name. Do not sell anything by weight, do not let anyone take the whole drawer for one flat price, until you have gone through this whole list. If you find this useful, consider subscribing, because I go through a new jewelry box every week. And stay to the end, because the piece at number one is the one most often swept into the bag without a second look, and it is the one I most want you to check for.