What is approximate value of all of this?
>>A 4 ct topaz can be $10 or $50. It varies from stone to stone and where you source them. If each of the 36 storage and display jars runs $15 to $50 retail on eBay then around $700 to $1,000 at a conservative wholesale estimate, plus the stones not in jars. Good gemstones are more about cut, quality and presentation than a strict carat weight to value. It sounds absurd, but the same goes for diamonds as well. Most of these are good quality gems, though the majority of the emeralds and rubies are B grade gems (cloudy but still valuable, pretty and useful) with some exceptions. Even being B grade gems, the black jar of emeralds I'd price at $75+.
Do you have weights/sizes and amounts of each type of gem?
>>A rough estimate overall is in the hundreds of carats. If I had a refractometer, polariscope and GIA manual I could do the IDs, but that's time and money I don't have. I have the knowledge to do basic identification.
I bought these all while running a coin and jewelry shop as part of my profession, in lots and individually.
https://www.gemselect.com/calibrated-size/calibrated-size-chart.php helps for gem size to weight estimates -- each gem jar is 1 1/8"which is 38 mm which puts the largest blue topazes at around 8 carats each which run around $13 to $17 a piece on eBay.
If there's more interest I'll weigh them out by type and take close up photos with my DSLR rather than my Nexus 6P's camera.
How much would shipping be within US?
>>I'll ship for free, it'll be less than $15 to anywhere in the US.
