A Better Alternative to Sending Jewelry to the Refinery
We will often buy finished jewelry at 100% of melt (PLUS STONES). NOTE: you must have a precious metals license and storefront.
We will buy finished saleable jewelry plus their stones sometimes over melt.
Looking for a more convenient place to sell your scrap? We will buy all gold and platinum scrap and pull better more saleable pieces for melt+ stones. No assay necessary. We will weight the pieces in front of you on state certified scale and pay outright live.
Some Jewelry Is Worth More Than Melt
This is where our program can make an even bigger difference.
We deal extensively in antique, vintage and estate jewelry. We know that an old piece of gold jewelry isn't necessarily scrap simply because it came in with a gold lot.
A Victorian brooch, Art Deco diamond ring, signed piece, unusual gemstone, heavy vintage chain, desirable men's jewelry, or well-made estate piece may have considerably more value intact than it does in the melting pot.
When we believe we can resell a piece as jewelry, we can pay accordingly, including paying over melt for desirable pieces.
You don't have to sort through every item and decide what's scrap and what's saleable before coming to us. That's part of what we do. We will go through the lot with you and pull the pieces at or over melt directly in front of you. Sometimes we can even do it from photo! Have a customer standing there and you need a question
Built for Dealers Who Handle Volume
Our dealer purchasing program is intended for professionals who regularly encounter jewelry and precious metals.
We work with:
- Jewelry stores
- Estate jewelry dealers
- Pawnbrokers
- Gold and precious metal buyers
- Coin shops
- Antique dealers
- Auctioneers
- Estate liquidators
- Secondhand dealers
- Other members of the trade
If you are looking for a gold refinery in the Philadelphia area, Montgomery county or bucks county look no further. We will buy your gold and platinum at refinery rates without melting.
Before you melt it, let us look at it. You won't be disappointed ever.
Unlike a refinery, you can take it back if you don't like our offer.
Refinery Payout Versus Selling To Us for Jewelry
A refinery may advertise a 94%, 95%, 96%, 97%, even 98% payout, but your actual return can be affected by melt loss and assay results. This is why many jewelers get frustrated with the lack of clarity when selling their gold. Use the calculator below to compare the theoretical melt value of your jewelry with an estimated refinery settlement. You will see selling outright as is generally is a better/more consistent payout.
Cash For Old Jewelry also evaluates diamonds, gemstones, antique jewelry, and desirable pieces that may be worth more intact than as scrap.
This calculator is for illustration and comparison purposes only. Actual refinery settlements vary based on assay, weight adjustments, fees, refining terms, and other factors. The 94% payout, 1.5% melt loss, and probable assay results shown here are example assumptions and are not intended to represent every refinery.
You don't necessarily need to separate every stone, identify every antique piece, or decide what should be scrapped before bringing us a lot.
Let us look at it first.
We can evaluate the material for its precious metal value and identify pieces or stones that may deserve additional consideration.
If it's scrap, we'll buy it as scrap.
If the stones have value, we'll consider the stones.
If the jewelry has value intact, we'll consider the jewelry.
It's a simple way to find out whether there's more money in your lot before sending it to be melted.
Before You Refine It, Let Us Price It. If you regularly sell gold, platinum, silver, diamonds, gemstones, or unwanted estate jewelry, we'd like to earn your business.
Cash For Old Jewelry is located in Ambler, Pennsylvania and works with dealers throughout the region and beyond.
Bring us your next lot and compare our offer with what you would expect to net from your refinery.
- Gold & Precious Metals: Up to 100% of calculated melt value on qualifying material.
- Diamonds & Gemstones: We evaluate and purchase stones with secondary market value
- Antique & Estate Jewelry: Desirable pieces may be purchased intact for MORE than their melt value
Have a Dealer Lot to Sell?
Contact us to discuss your material, arrange an evaluation, or learn more about establishing an ongoing dealer relationship.
Before you melt it, let us look at it. You won't be disappointed ever.
Unlike a refinery, you can take it back if you don't like our offer.
Get Paid for the Gold. Get Paid for the Stones. Get Paid for the jewelry.
If you're a jeweler, estate buyer, pawnbroker, coin dealer, antique dealer, auctioneer, or regularly handle jewelry that needs to be liquidated, Cash For Old Jewelry offers an alternative to simply sending everything to the refinery.
We buy precious metal with payments of up to 100% of melt value, but we don't stop there.
Before treating a piece as scrap, we look at what it actually is.
We buy diamonds and gemstones.
We recognize antique and estate jewelry with resale value.
When a piece is worth more intact than it is melted, we can pay over its melt value.
The idea is simple.
Don't melt value that doesn't need to be melted.
Up to 100% of Melt Without Melting Your Jewelry
Refining is an important part of the jewelry business, but not every piece of jewelry belongs in a melt lot.
We offer dealers competitive precious metal purchasing with payments of up to 100% of calculated melt value on qualifying material, without requiring the jewelry to first be melted and assayed.
Bring or send us the jewelry as it is to our 31 East Butler Avenue Ambler, PA 19002 location meet with the buyer (ME) directly.
We'll evaluate the precious metal content along with any additional value we see in the stones, craftsmanship, age, maker, design, or resale potential. That gives you an opportunity to recover value that can disappear when an entire lot is simply treated as scrap. You also won't lose any weight in a melt.
We Buy the Stones Too
One of the biggest differences between selling jewelry to us and sending it to a traditional refinery is what happens to the stones.
We actively buy diamonds and other gemstones when they have secondary market value.
Depending on the material, that can include:
- Larger diamonds
- Melee and small diamonds
- Emeralds, rubies and sapphires
- Natural colored gemstones
- Signed and important jewelry
- Antique and period jewelry
- Other desirable stones with resale value
If you are looking for a gold refinery in the Philadelphia area, Montgomery county or bucks county look no further. We will buy your gold and platinum at refinery rates without melting.
Before you melt it, let us look at it. You won't be disappointed ever.
Unlike a refinery, you can take it back if you don't like our offer.