Antique Jewelry / Funeral Home Discovery Some 33 Years Ago

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5 Piece antique jewelry lot kept undercover for the past 33 years. I'am not an expert and none of these items have been examined by a jeweler, antiques appraiser, etc. "so you just may luck out with this lot." Our first item is a necklace, appears Victorian era with four open face faceted green glass stones, has a heraldic pendant which appears to be a WW1 era or earlier cap badge for an English Officer [perhaps he died during the war and his love mourned her loss.] Second we have a beaded jade necklace [a green and black mix] with an intricate clasp. Third is a mother of pearl monogrammed pin or broach [with the letter "C".] Fourth we have a multi-loop sterling pin or broach and fifth we have a monogrammed silver looped pendant [I'am afraid that my eyes fail me on the three monogrammed initials.] Be sure and view our other auctions for more items from this lot. An unbelievable story here but so outlandish "it must be true." When I was 17 years old [some 33 years ago], I got my first Whites Metal Detector. Detecting around what seemed to me to be a deserted mansion I recovered a 1947 dime, a large cent [couldn't read the date] and two V-nickles. Detecting around back I happened across a building containing stainless steel tubs and an old sign for a "funeral home!" It was an old defunct funeral home and the tubs must have had something read more