Common Items Most People Don’t Know Are Valuable

37. Costume Jewelry

When some people find an old collection of costume jewelry, they often assume it’s worthless since none of it is real gold. There are many people out there who collect vintage costume jewelry because they want to use it for crafting, or they want to get it for a discount in a lot so they can resell it later. Take a magnifying glass and see if you can recognize designer costume jewelry brands like Monet and Trifari. If you would instead not go through all of it piece by piece, you can put the whole lot up on eBay and let it go to auction.

Large collections of costume jewelry regularly go for well over $100, especially if there are unique shapes and figures or unusual colors of rhinestones. Halloween jewelry, much like old decor and postcards, tend to sell for more than other holidays, although Christmas Tree pins from brands like Trifari still hold more value than most other costume jewelry pieces. Jewelry crafted in unusual shapes, like Native American portraits, candelabras, or exotic animals, tend to sell for the highest prices since they likely didn’t sell as well at the time of their making, unlike more common shapes such as roses or birds.