Value my stock pin competition - a bit of fun.

[ycbm]

If it's a real leaf, is it to do with a significant bunch of flowers like a wedding bouquet?

It's solid gold.
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[ycbm]

You bought it for someone else (a gardener?) and for some reason it was returned to you later?
Guessing it cost £98 in 2002

You are almost spot on with the purchase price.
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[Crazy_cat_lady]

Ooh I've just seen it's 18ct and was £98 in 2002 so would like to increase to £350

 

[ycbm]

Well the spot price for 1oz of gold is just over £2000, so as a minimum 1/3oz is around £660. If its a well known maker then it's probably worth more

Yup, it's worth over £600 to melt down, well done!

I have zero idea what it's worth as a broach, possibly less?

It's a beautiful piece. I loved it when I bought it. I was given the money to buy it. It did leave my possession and returned 12 years later.

Bag of popcorn to anyone who can fill in the rest of the story.

GOLD and AUTUMN

both very relevant.

 

[cauda equina]

Something to do with an anniversary?
Bought with winnings from a bet?

 

[criso]

Yup, it's worth over £600 to melt down, well done!

I have zero idea what it's worth as a broach, possibly less?

I wouldn't have thought it would be worth less as a brooch but how much more would depend on the style, workmanship and current fashions.

 

[SpeedyPony]

Bought for a wedding anniversary and returned to you after the recipient died/no longer had a use for it?

 

[Rowreach]

I have seen real leaves coated in gold so I'm assuming this may be one? If it is then there will be far less gold than if it were solid so I will guess at £65 as the gold would have to be very thin to preserve the detail.

Gold leaf

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Ah man too late I just worked out the gold price if it

Ok story, guessing an heirloom that was sold to pay for something, maybe a horse called Autumn Gold, then re purchased again some years later in memory of said horse.

If that's not the story I don't want to know

 

[Cortez]

Gold is weighed/valued in troy ounces, which are very slightly heavier than regular ounces, it's easier for people without a jeweller's scale to weigh it in grams - today's price is £51.16 per gram.

 

[ycbm]

My mother and father were coming up to 50 years married and my father wasn't mobile enough to go shopping alone. So he gave me a budget of £100 and asked me to find something gold to give my mother as a present for their golden wedding anniversary. They existed in a state of fairly mutual dislike and my father wasn't a saint but he did make an effort. I found the leaf, which I thought was very beautiful, and suggested he might comment about them spending the autumn of their lives together.

From what he told me, it was received with an ungracious shrug and thrown into a drawer. When he died she said she didn't want it told me to take it, not knowing that I chose it in the first place because I loved it.

I don't wear yellow gold, or broaches of any kind, but it was a sweet spot in my relationship with my father and it will never be sold.
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[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Ok I take it back, that's a lovely story and so glad it's found it's real home with you. Even if you don't wear it, you know it's there

 

[seriously festive equine]

I guess £97.50 in 2002 £156.75 now

 

[Juniper Jack]

Priceless.