Jello salads were so popular because in the past gelatin was very hard to make. Only the rich could afford to serve it. It was a very high status symbol to have on your table. Then a man named Knox started making dry gelatin from cow hooves, a by-product of the tanning industry in Gloversville NY. So now anybody could have gelatin. Mr. Knox became very wealthy and endowed his home city of Johnstown, NY with many donations and buildings. Gloversville was known as the Glove manufacturer to the world in it's day. My Mother worked in a Glove factory there that made the gloves for Queen Elizabeth on her Coronation.

Jeweler here! That ruby and diamond bracelet in white gold should fetch you a pretty penny. Those silver charm bracelets are super valuable, especially since they are as full as they are and with nice charms. Awesome haul!

I'm a charm bracelet fan. Ended up combining charm bracelets into a necklace because I'd collected so many! Wish I could hear a story for each charm, looks like the owner had amazing vacations all over the world!

The cameo looks like a Wedgewood Jasperware. Definitely collectible.

The Mexican silver bracelets appear to have white or rainbow opal stones. Very beautiful!

This lady would have been my friend...I collect old cookbooks, costume jewelry pins (like grannies wear to church), and children's books. Sending a kind thought for her memory and I hope her collection is cherished by your fans at auction!

This was your best unboxing yet! Loved, loved, loved this. As a collector of costume jewelry you've got some treasures for sure. And I am very impressed with your knowledge. Is there anything you don't know? Those cookbooks would be so interesting to read. I look forward to seeing ALL of the jewelry. Thank you for showing us your treasures today. You definitely got a deal!

Oh my 😍 my idea of heaven! Love sorting jewellery and money. Got my cup of tea and sitting comfortably so let the adventure begin. Wow just loved the books, wonder if they could be restored. Thank you for cheering up a grey rainy day in the uk x

Love jewelry and this unboxing was so enjoyable. Would love to see again once organized. Thanks for sharing!

Would love to see another video with all the pieces.

A GREAT stash! I love treasure boxes .....

What an awesome lot of treasures!!!

Love all the little treasures you find to be kept and saved for posterity... The keeping of history is the true treasure...

I absolutely LOVE vintage jewelry !!!!! It would be heaven on earth for me if I ever had the pleasure of sorting through something like this 👍👍💕💕

The "cameo" looks like a pretty rare vintage WEDGWOOD blue Jasperware angel brooch in sterling! I would say that if you put $175 on it you would sell it fast ❤️

As much as I love sparkly things, I LOVE the children's books! Thanks for sharing your purchase with us!

Truly fun to watch. Thank you.

My absolute favorite thing to go through is old jewelry boxes. I need episode 2 please!

I would love to see all the rest of the jewelry.

The cookbooks are amazing. And the jewelry is very cool.

You definately how a very nice return coming your way... just by seeing the first glimpse of your jewerly. Absolutely. Nice buy.

SUPER collection of goodies 😍

My daughter worked in a Pharmacy and introduced me to little sealable bags. I use them to keep my jewelry in - to keep the pieces separated so they don't damage each other. Plus to keep sets together. They come in a wide assortment of sizes and I love the organization it gives me. Just an idea for you. Keep the videos coming, love your channel.

That was fun, Alex! Thanks! I love looking at jewelry and all the trinkets. You got a great haul there. Looks like it will be worth the investment! Congratulations!

It makes me wonder what stories this jewelry could tell of the owners adventures. I love finding treasure. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

I adore big bags of jewelry!! Love it all!

Yes, yes, Alex, please do another video of your jewelry haul. I saw some items you didn’t talk about and I (we) would love to see it in more detail. Thank you for all the hours of work you put in to do rhese

Thanks for the videos!

Such beautiful items. Thank you for sharing.😊

Red garnet bracelet is lovely

So much of this collection is exactly what I like. It's like the collector was my twin 😊

Great purchase ! Can't wait to see more!

I'm 67yrs old and I am starting to give my precious, to me, things to the people that I want to have them. I want to see them being enjoyed. I NEVER want someone going over my things after I'm gone.

These videos are so fun. Makes me feel like I'm rummaging through my grandma's jewelry box again. And I hear ya on the veggies in jello rant. The two should NOT meet.

Liked n subscribed ... it was the "it's a tie fighter,its a tie fighter in a box...... hooked thereon in...Nice family with impeccably behaved children..well done everyone..

Lots of really nice pieces!! Loved the little books 📕!! Thanks for sharing!! 💖💖💖💖

As a lover of stones, the insect, fish and other stone pieces in the collection, were quite exciting. My favorite pieces were the amathist jem piece, topped by the silver figurine and The blue cameo piece was very nice as well. Enjoy your videos and finds.

Loved this unboxing. Great finds! Enjoyed this big time. 👍🙂👍

Those charm bracelets should go for around $300. each on Ebay! What an excellent score! As for the old gold wedding bands check what they are going for on Etsy!! Pretty high!

You should get in touch with your countryman Glen of the channel Glen and Friends Cooking. He collects and cooks recipes from old cookbooks.

Nice lot of items. Those little books are amazing! I'll have to watch for the garnet/silver bracelet at auction as it's my birthstone.

OMG!! Such fun "sorting" with you~ and I collected old cook books myself and know the pleasure of reading how things in the kitchen were done a long time ago~

I loved this, jewelry unboxing is my favorite!

Good video Brother Alexander. Always interesting going through boxies of stuff. Thanks for sharing Your Adventures 😀 👍 ♥️ 🇨🇦 🎉🎉👏👏🎉🎉💯💯

You have some very interesting pieces of jewelry there. I think you got a good deal. I love old cook books some are so interesting in the difference of how food was prepared and what was eaten back when. But what really caught me eye was the childrens books. Wish I could afford them would have snapped those up in a jiffy. Keep Safe ❤Keep Well ❤

Wow amazing haul. I love looking at all the pieces you find. Melissa and Abigail will have so much fun looking through the collection.

Beautiful collection.

This was a super pick! So much fun for us to see the treasures that you find. Please hunt for more of these types of unboxings as they are great fun!

Thank you for sharing. I have quite a collection of antique costume jewelry.

That was an interesting,amazing and fun. I love the history behind any items. Thanks Alex

Fantasitc finds, some beautiful pieces!! Thanks!

Wow! That haul looks incredible! Love the garnets.

Cool stuff thanks for sharing this with me I appreciate it 🙏👍🤓

Thanks for sharing. I can't wait, really can't. wait for the auction! You have yourself some terrific buys on your table.

It's so nice you could remember your dad, through the radio you bought! I remember my dad through certain foods he loved! He passed away just 3 months before his 60th birthday, from complications from y'all bladder surgery. I happened to turn 60 on July 18, so I thought about him a lot!

Neat haul. Thanks for sharing it.

Thanks for a video filled with the magic of the past, many wonderful pieces you have there, and hard to make up my mind which item I found most interesting. That being said, the collection of children’s books and old cookbooks would probably be at the top, although there were many nice and interesting jewelry pieces there too. Congrats on a good haul and thanks for an interesting vlog.

Those old cookbooks will probably sell quickly!

Yes to the full inventory of this haul pls! Thank you!

12:39 This bangle deserves some research. I am not saying that it is a Georg Jensen, but it remind's me of a Georg Jensen curve bangle made with 18 kt yellow gold, and sterling silver which sells in the UK for more than GBP4000 (four thousand).

The contents are more a timeline of someones life, adventures, travels and experiences. About as close to a time machine as we can get. I often think what a treat it would have been to talk to the owner. Fires the imagination Alexander. Cheers|!

What lovely old jewelry - and the fireside books! Wonderful.

It’s such a great reminder of some of the pieces my mom had, memory lane♥️

Lots of lovely pieces!

I really appreciate you embracing this new type of content, especially as you'd probably rather be elbows deep in an oily engine or digging through an old barn. 😏

Really loved going through all your treasures. Thanks for sharing and it was so much fun!💎

Those 3 charm bracelets might make a huge profit for you! I collect them I’ve never found one with that mean charms in the wild. Just checked Etsy 2 different bracelet with over 20 charms were US dollars $356 each. Good luck!!

What a nice collection lots of beautiful treasures. I love old jewelry I think it was made so much stronger then the jewelry today and some pieces are so much more intricate. 🙂❤️

Omg..Alex,there were some really beautiful things in there!I saw a lot of fun earrings and the bracelet with the garnets(?)was stunning❣️😍 The cameo was so different and amazing❣️😍And I saw a bracelet with 3 different colored silver/gold hearts. The cookbooks blew me away! Who doesn’t want a cookbook from 1828?!? I do❣️🥰😍📚 And also the small children books from 1895,I would LOVE them all❣️🥰😍

A really nice collection of jewelry. Love those books!❤️❤️

Girl here, and I personally love all the boy stuff you purchase. With that being said I also love all the jewelry boxes you've scored as of late! Alex you've got an incredible sense of quality and style so it's all good with me!

That’s a really fun collection! I would love to see it all separated! Thank you!❤️

I like the blue cameo. And as a rock collector, the amethyst caught my eye!

What a great collection to go thru. I hope you have a diamond tester because you have some diamonds in all that. And yes, that is garnet in that bracelet. I just went thru a huge collection and found 14kt gold charm bracelets! 2 of them full! You never know what's in those collections but they are worth the time and work...have fun!

I get to sort through the jewelry hoards we get donated at the Thrift Shop where I volunteer 💖 It’s so much fun! Even if it’s just junk from the 80s :) We research the brands we don’t know and I’m surprised by How much I have learned. We will repair the broken stuff and create some new “pieces” from the pieces… if all else fails we make junk bags for crafters.

This is SUCH fun to see, and I will never ever get enough of looking through interesting things. That fish was awesome! I hope to see it again.

Love the jewelry! Would love to see it again once it was organized!

As a jewelry lover…. So many tempting beautiful pieces❤️❤️❤️love the spider set and the turtle necklace

I remember when I was about 9 years old, I saw a 1 dollar bill for the first time in my live. I looked at it and I wanted to go there, wondering what kind of country that was. And 12 years later I went to Canada and lived there for two and a half year. Hi form the Netherlands.

Cool stuff! I have the silver sombrero earrings!

Bumblebee brooches sell well Charms would be about £15 each minimum - more if they open

Very nice items. ♥️

I love old cookbooks ❤️ I would one day love to expand my small collection and get a few more! Awesome finds!

Boy you get History dropped right in your lap! Cool stuff!! House is looking great too!!!

Brings back many memories of helping my grandmom sort out her auction finds. Sometimes at estate sales there would be boxes and boxes for about 5 to 10 dollars. Full of little things. I guess families of these Estate sales did not realize sometimes small things can be worth more than that knock off dinning set lol. Or the print of Renoir. But nowadays there is the internet and people can look such items up . My grandmom once had a Chipndale couch. Very rare . They did not make them often.

Years ago we had our two rings soldered together usually because they were so worn that they were almost worn through.

Great collection. Nice buy.

OMG! SOOOO jealous! Getting to go through any kind of bulk treasure is my dream! I cant believe how big this one is! Love it!!!!

Love watching your reveals. I sold vintage jewelry for years on Ebay among other smalls. It's like treasure hunting! Thanks for the video.

Fascinating! I'd love to see it all cleaned up...

Love the Turtle necklace ad turtles bracelet. I collect anything with turtles. I have a silver turtle spoon from Boston that is over a hundred years old now.

I always love watching your videos Alex.

Aw, you bought that just for us. Love the unboxing of bulk jewelry, coins, & books. Thanks for sharing, Alex.

Garnet is my birthstone. That bracelet definitely looked to be garnet.

My wedding and engagement set used to rub against each other. I lost a small diamond because of it. I had the stone replaced, and I had the ring set soldered together, about 30 years ago. I’m glad I did! No more rubbing. No more fussing to keep them together.

your videos are fabulous great to see all the wonderful things very entertaining God bless you

That's a great collection. That would be fun .

I would buy that pumpkin pin in a heartbeat.

I love the wedgewood cameo! You've definitely good a good return on this one!

Great finds!