<p>Our family’s local jeweler (50 years+) has on consignment a very nice charm bracelet. Every six-nine months I go into the shop for a battery change and this bracelet is still there after 4 years. Its now to the point where the actual gold content is equal to raw gold pricing. The artistic value and the quantity of charms are an added bonus. The bracelet is priced to reflect only art and quantity, not metal.</p>
<p>Since my family does not have jewelery (wife and I haven’t worn rings in 20+ years because of our jobs) Do people still collect charms, and Do females value charms?</p>
<p>My daughter (and I)went on a girl scout trip to Europe the summer before last, the summer between her Junior/senior year. Every country we went to we would look for charms - sometimes more than 1 (like a Gondola and a mask from venice). She has them on a bracelet and likes to wear it. It holds a lot of special meaning and memories so yes she does value the charms. (We went for silver not gold for price reasons)</p>
<p>I have silver as well. It doesn’t have too many charms on it, but each one of them is special to me for a different reason (ie a snowflake from the winter we went to Colorado to visit family, a horse from when I took horseback riding lessons, etc).</p>
<p>So yes, I value it very much. In fact, I only wear it for special occasions because I’m so afraid that something will happen to it (I’m wearing it to thanksgiving dinner tonight).</p>
<p>I have a gold charm bracelet and a silver. On every special occasion I would receive a charm from my mother. Birthdays, graduation,clubs. I love that charm bracelet. I think many people still collect charms, just look on eBay a lot of people sell them.</p>
<p>I think girls and women do value charms and charm bracelets, but more so if the charms have personal meaning, are gifts from loved ones, or mementos from places they have visited. </p>
<p>If the gold charm bracelet would be something bought to re-sell, you might look on eBay to see what people are willing to pay-- either for the bracelet as a whole, or for 14k charms separately.</p>
<p>If it’s a gift-- then it depends on the person. I think a gold charm bracelet would be a very nice gift.</p>
<p>Zoosersister has a charm bracelet and adores it. We try to buy meaningful and also fun charms. It’s something I always wanted and never had, so I love buying her charms.</p>
<p>^ that is part of the problem. Its a DS not DD. He’s 22 and not a girl friend in sight. So not only is the bracelet an investment in money but also a future investment for a DIL and grandchildren. Such an investment can be long in a payoff. </p>
<p>It is Very attractive, 40 yellow gold charms on a chain of maybe 8 inches.</p>
<p>I just started a second charm bracelet for my 21 year old d and will soon start one for my 16 year old daughter.</p>
<p>We have given charms to them every year for different occassions and bought charms on vacation. I told them that they could have the bracelet when they were 16.They love them.</p>
<p>I love charm bracelets, and you have just given me the idea to start one for my oldest D. Thanks!</p>
<p>My dad traveled a lot when I was young (all over Europe and the Far East), and he always brought my sister and me a charm from each of his travels. Alas, the bracelet was stolen. It probably had about 15 gold charms on it.</p>
<p>OK…I’ll be the voice of opposition here. First I want to say, I LOVE charm bracelets. I have one but it only has a few charms on it that are mementos from my school days. Having said that…I would NOT want a charm bracelet with someone else’s charm collection. To me, the whole purpose of a charm bracelet is that the charms are meaningful to the owner. Since you don’t even have a recipient in mind at this point, I wouldn’t buy this bracelet. It is holding someone else’s memories and that is why it is probably still sitting in the store intact and still for sale after four years. If you really want to do this someday, bank the money you would spend on this NOW. Then when you have a DIL or GD, you can buy the bracelet and charms that hold memories for them.</p>
<p>I too own a charm bracelet from when I was a teen and traveled the globe. Those charms hold meaning to me, and only me. I don’t wear it because I don’t like the sound it constantly makes, but I love having it. </p>
<p>Some people are superstitious about wearing another’s jewelry as well. I probably wouldn’t buy it, but I bet a $ I’d admire it in the shop.</p>
<p>I agree with thumper1!!! My charm bracelet is the most sentimental piece of jewelry I own! A charm bracelet from someone else wouldn’t mean anything except for the value of the gold.</p>
<p>Now I wonder if that is the charm bracelet that was stolen from me so many years ago. If the bracelet itself has hearts on it, and charms include ballet slippers, let me know. </p>
<p>My mother’s charm bracelets were stolen back in the '60s (along with the Revere spoons, sadly). </p>
<p>I would argue that you would get between a minimum of $10 per gold charm–and way more for some of them–on EBay, and that the bracelet is worth a great deal more broken up than it is as a charm bracelet, for precisely the reasons given above. </p>
<p>I buy charms for my daughter’s charm bracelet of EBay myself. I’ve noticed that the same molds have been around for forty years, there are very few new designs, except in tourist areas.</p>
<p>A quick check on Ebay for “vintage charm” will show you the kinds of prices. Warning: it can be quite sad to see charm bracelets that someone clearly valued going for very little money, like the one with twelve name/birthday tags going for $13 right now.</p>
In fact, I only wear it for special occasions because I’m so afraid that something will happen to it (I’m wearing it to thanksgiving dinner tonight).</p>
It probably had about 15 gold charms on it.</p>