We buy jewelry for the best prices

"Best price" is easy to print on a sign and hard to prove, so here is what sits behind our numbers instead. Five things move a jewelry offer, and any buyer worth dealing with will walk you through all of them.

Metal weight and purity set the floor — that part is arithmetic done on a scale you can see. Stones come next, graded individually rather than waved at. Maker and period can double or triple the figure when a piece is signed or clearly of its era. Condition adjusts it down where restoration is needed. And demand decides the rest: certain periods move quickly this year and certain ones sit, and we would rather tell you which is which than pretend the market is uniform.

Where a piece would genuinely do better at auction than through us, we say so. Losing a small deal is cheaper than earning a reputation for buying things below what they were worth.