How to Tell and Value Costume, Gold & Silver Jewelry when Thrifting by Dr. Lori 

What I like about Dr.Lori’s videos is the clarity of her voice, the speed of which she speaks, and that she stays on topic. Her knowledge is unmatched, yes, but her ability to teach what she knows in a manner that isn’t boring and holds your attention is equally as impressive. For the trolls out there, understand this, we don’t come here to listen to Dr. Lori blow smoke up peoples asses. We come here to be educated by someone who’s willing to share their education and experience based knowledge for free. That alone is almost unheard of in today’s world.

I love me some Dr. Lori, she’s the best! ❤️

I totally agree with Kaye Fisher ! We came here to learn & enjoy Dr. Lori’s knowledge & Style !!

I’ve learned more from you than anyone else on the internet,you are the queen! Such knowledge! Thank you for such a huge gift!!!

Hello Dr Lori, high regards and appreciation for all the work and passion you put into these instructing and entertaining videos! Best wishes!

More "Shorts" please. 🤗👏

I just learned something new. Pearl made from fish bone?? Now I need to learn how to identify fish bone pearls lol

Hi Dr.lori. i started watching your videos about a couple of weeks ago .I really enjoy listening to you . Thank you for teaching me an thousands of people what to look for.

Watching now! Great info and demonstrations. I started using the loupe on my own jewelry and have a better appreciation of what I own. The loupe has opened up a whole new world for me. Thanks for the education. 💖

We learned a ton! “Of Course”!” 🥰 Thank you Dr Lori! You are precious. Love love love jewelry 😁 Hope I have the courage some day to do a live appraisal. It is always so much fun to watch people show their treasures!

I just found a solid copper necklace that was black it had barely a hint of copper. I had so much fun watching my necklace change from black to beautiful shining copper. With this necklace was a sliver black necklace also I watched it turn to sliver

This is my second video but I knew after watching my first video that I was going to love your videos. You don’t even have to say, “ring my bell”. I don’t know if it’s the authoritative and knowledgeable way of speaking or if it’s because you are amusing and connect with your audiences so well. ❤,❤.

Dr. Lori dropping so much knowledge.❤️Dr.Lori

Thank you. As always, fast paced and full of fantastic info.

This is a great video... watched it twice! Thank you Dr. Lori!!

Looking super fancy in pearls Dr. Lori!

GREAT info Dr. Lori!!

Love your table talks! Super helpful video, thanks so much!

Love all of your videos but this one with the comparison pieces is extremely helpful. Thanks

This video will never go out of date, valuable information, especially for resellers.

Love Dr.L videos, always so loaded with information

THANK YOU, for caring enough to educate and inspire.

Thank you Dr. Lori, my new goodwill blue box is due to arrive tomorrow so I will put this new knowledge to use.

Very informative!!

Wow...I thought I knew a lot about each item you talked about....however - you've taught me so much MORE in this 1 video!! Love it!

Ty! Excellent!

Fantastic Tips🏆

Hi Dr. Lori! I Love your comparison videos. They are so very helpful. Possibly my favorite type of video that you do. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Hi Dr. Lori I am glad you are talking about jewelry. Thanks ❤ ♥ 💓 💖

Good video! Thanks!

So informative...love it

Great as always 💖

This was your best video yet for me. I learned soo much. Thank you thank you! Please do more videos like this on how to identify and price!!

Wow. The white gold ring you used for comparison is beautiful. I like the coral earrings too.

Dr Lori Thank you for everything you have taught me .God Bless You!

Love this. So informative. Thank you

Good to know!

The comparison of the glass bracelets was super helpful. Thanks!!

Awesome information! Dr. Lori. Thank you!

I have learned so much from your videos. Thank you! Also really like your new shorter ones

Very very beautiful imformation Dr.Lori its interessino every video you make..thank u

this is very informative and enjoyable. i love to treasure hunt! and you're teaching me so much about what to look for in all sorts of items. thank you.

Good to know! Thank you for your teaching. I know a lot about real gold and silver but I was surprised at the value of the foux jewelry. I bought a lot of real gold and silver jewelry with real stones, as an investment but it looks like the value has risen.

That bracelet is very Grace Kelly in “Rear Window”! Love it!

Love your outfit! You look beautiful in pastels!

You are what I binge on, late night

Missed your show by 25 minutes! Just got home from a niece’s graduation party near Altoona. Yep, hit all the garage sales all weekend! Love the milli fiore info.

Worked for Caithness Glass in quality control. Loved to watch the guys stretch the MIlli rods. Such skill also in lamp work. Love your advice with great humour. Rock on Dr Lori.😁

Thank you, Dr.. Lori , for another amazing video! You taught me alot!💯❤

Hi dr Lori. Do more utubes strictly instructing like this one 👍💵🍀

I enjoy your jewllery videos very interesting from Linda UK

1 minute in and I've already learned what millefiori glass is and how to identify quality versions - awesome video!

Dr. Lori, you are royalty. Amazing work you do and I deeply appreciate the time and information you give us. Thanks to u and your methods, I am able to buy jewelry with confidence to know the difference between real and faux.

I love this information Dr. Lori! Your jewelry videos are my favorite but I love all your content:) Thanks for the free education!

Thank you! I would love to see more videos like this ❤️

Great information 👍

Great job. I love thrift stores, garage sales, estate sales and do sell on eBay but lately have not been. I might try again with all this good info. Interestingly I found sterling pearl earrings once at a garage sale $1, their loss my gain and a $3 thin Seiko watch at a garage sale which I love to this day !

Awesome thanks

Learned sooo much from you Dr. lori. I found a beautiful Waterford crystal cross ( stamped) for $6. I have been wanting one for years. Scored alot more of vintage jewelry too. Tx for teaching us. Now I'm addicted to your channel. 🙏💍📿💎

You amazing every time Dr Lori ❤ from Australia

Wow, another great information packed presentation. Thanks Dr Lori. Your the best:) Peggy

Your information is so enlighting and right to the point great job I love your vedios

I got a loupe & looked at my own Sterling silver flatware service. OMG It helped me identify the pattern + the loupe has already more than paid for itself even though I had an appraisal. Value changes over time. Thank you sooo much.

Super helpful!

Great!

Invaluable info for a novice like me. Thank you!

I am loving your videos. I am learning a lot about how to physically handle and learn about the pieces I have inherited from my grandmother. Some date back to the 1800's. :)

Thank You!! 😊

This was very informative!!! My cousins and I inherited jewelry from our Grandma. Many very real and treasured, as well as some costume jewelry and other pieces that she had, as the last woman from her family. We have many pieces of pearl jewelry, so, a very big Thank You 😊!!! My heart did kinda sink when you picked up the carnelian necklace and just let it go... But, I would love to know more about those kinds of things, if you get the opportunity!!!

Thank you Dr Lori V you have made my late grandmother proud of me! Her costume pearls turned out to be worth more than real one's😁

Hi from Australia Dr Lori

How in the world do you remember all this!!! YOU are Amazing 👏❤💖💕

Thank you Dr. Lori! You have answered some questions I had. I have recently acquired a necklace from Goodwill in a bag that has red coral dragon and red stones, now I know that the red stone bead are carnelian. thank you.] I always learn something from your videos.

I JUST love watching 👀 everything you and show us on jewelry which I never pass when I go to yard sales. I never pass up on the opportunity to buy jewelry for myself and I really hope my children will be smart enough to make something from the many years of me buying the items I have bought though out out to my life.I have been collecting old collections collecting for most of my life but I have been sick 😫 most of the winter so I hope I get to do it again when it starts up again. When the weather starts to get warmer.I was out in North Carolina to see my son and grandchildren and I stopped at a few yard sales and got I bought 2 pairs of sneakers and when I where them everyone wants to know where I got them. I love them. I JUST was wondering if I bought a different type of case case full of pins beautiful ones that are are made by everyone who sold them on QVC OR HSN AND AND I know that some are from Joan Rivers ,all the 🌟 stars that were around in the 80s and 90s and I took care of her mother until the mother passed away. They were expensive then. Would they be worth anything this time around. Thank you for reading this post and thank you for taking the time to answer my questions and questions ..

I need that carnelian necklace!!

great

Hi dr Lori love it 👍💵🌹🥰🍀🍦

Good info! I'd love to learn more

Dr Lori I think you are amazing, you would make a wonderfull teacher. Can you picture Dr lori in a class room.The kids would be so excited and they would learn so much.you are a very talented woman.God bless Dr lori keep up the good work.

Lovely pink jacket on you.😊

Your are the best Dr.Lori!!😍😍 I have an old dish surrounded by a piece of silver and I just want to know if it is valuable or not. A wonderful plethora of thanks!!

So we are walking with my daughter in the center of Athens Greece, and I spot a flat velvet case for keeping rings and my eyes roll, my daughter looks at me with surprise and I tell her: Dont ask, Dr. Lori says ;)

☺☺☺😇😇😇. Ji. Great video. Let's make 2 to 3 he ones. ❤❤❤🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒

I.m trying to find the link for buying the loop and the gemstone identifying instrument. I found Dr Lori products with ease.

What power loop do you like.

Good television

The faux pearls made out of fish bone, how can I tell them from glass or another material? Are they gritty like a real pearl or are they smooth? I've been selling antiques and collectibles for roughly twenty years but decided jewelry was more fun and is sooo much easier to ship! I received my first bluebox in April and now I'm addicted lol! I love your channel and appreciate all you do for us Dr.Lori, bless you dear!

Yikes ! I have a shoe box of pearls I better take a closer look at now

Question how to bring silver back to bling ,which product do you recommend?

Would a gold necklace marked 14KGF still be slightly magnetic because of the metals under the gold? Thanks for all the great info!!

I want to know how to find a jewelers loop

So bummed I missed the live! Do you have any hints to help us ID whether or not our faux pearls are of the fish skeleton variety? I assume they were used in only high quality pieces, but other than that is there a trick to tell the difference between them and other molded materials that were used? I know if they're painted, looking at the holes is a good way to tell, but the only way I'd know if something was made with a fish skeleton is if it was literally just a fish skeleton laying there.

I’ve seen the magnets people are using to differentiate if the item is gold or silver. Are they accurate? I’ve heard so much about magnets and testing metals

Is Sterling the only metal that becomes tarnished? Or what other metals tarnish like silver? How to tell them apart? Please and thank you

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I have tahitian circle pearl necklace and having a hard time finding reliable info. Fits all the requirements of authentic but no marks. Hmm..... 😅

I have cameos set in 14k,early 1900's. How can I find out what they are worth? Are they collectable?

Hi a year later Dr Lori ~ How in the world can I tell if my pearls are ground up molded fish skeletons??? Please and thank you.

I have some jewelry and i dont know if they are worth something or not how can i have ur help plz

What brand of loop and where to get it?