15 Pieces Of Costume Jewelry That Look Worthless But Are Secretly Worth Thousands

Somewhere in that tangled box of costume jewelry, the one full of mismatched pieces nobody has worn in decades, there might be several pieces worth more than everything else in your jewelry collection combined, and the word costume is exactly why nobody ever checks. In this video I walk through fifteen pieces of costume jewelry, brooches, bracelets, earrings, necklaces and rings, that families dismiss on sight because costume has become shorthand for worthless, when all it actually means is that the stones are not real, it says nothing about who made the piece or what it is quietly worth today. 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 costume jewelry boxes are where I have personally watched more real money get sold for pennies than almost anywhere else in the house, because one word on a tag convinced an entire family that nothing inside was worth a second look. I will be honest with you from the start, most costume jewelry is exactly what it looks like, cheap metal and glass worth almost nothing, and I am not going to inflate that for you. But certain makers built genuine craftsmanship into costume pieces decades ago, and those specific designers, marks, and construction methods are precisely what collectors are paying real money for today, stone or no stone. For every piece on this list, I will show you what to look for on the clasp, the mark, and the construction itself, so you know within a minute whether what you are holding is ordinary or something genuinely valuable. Do not sell a single piece by weight, do not assume costume means worthless, 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 people mistake for junk more than any other piece I have ever priced.