$5 Gold Cufflinks

ilmcoins

Its interesting that I run across a lot of estates with coins in jewelry.

I actually see a fair amount of people wearing $2.50 Indian rings and women wearing modern Panda gold in rings and necklaces.

I never see anyone wearing $5 gold cufflinks these days. Either they are not in fashion anymore or I don't hang out in the crowd that wears $1,000 cufflinks!!

jabba

I don’t actually have any close that would require cuff links 😂 they say every man should have a good suite for weddings and funerals not me I’m not going to do it!
I do however like them but I would turn the cuff links into something else ear rings maybe.

jabba

What size is the ring?

ilmcoins

@jabba said:
What size is the ring?

I dont have it handy right now but it is large. Too big for my fingers haha... maybe a thumb ring if I wear it!

jabba

I’ve got size 15 I thought it was big looking I really like the ring

TomB

Seems like a good way to me to take already damaged (cleaned, polished, ex-jewelry, etc...) gold and place it in a setting and sell it to someone who thinks its "cool" on a whim.

Dscoin

There is a current listing on Craigslist in Minneapolis with some $2.50 gold Indian cuff links and a $5 Indian clip. The guy wants way more than melt which is crazy in my opinion.

golden

My dad had $5 cuff links dated 1915, the year that he was born. They are now mine.

AUandAG

I sold a pair a few years ago to a Floor Manager at one of the Strip Casinos here in vegas. He still has to wear a suit and such....Last I spoke to him he was still wearing them and gets lots of compliments on them....happy customer!

bob

PS: Limited niche for sure.

Hemispherical

Toe ring

ricko

The only coin jewelry I have had were Morgan belt buckles....and a Peace dollar buckle too.... I think I liberated them all....Cheers, RickO

BillDugan1959

I've had two very nice white dress shirts (Land's End) with sleeves with cuff links in the last decade. The shirts fit wonderfully and were only $3.00 apiece at an outlet store. I had some costume jewelry links. One could wear them to a wedding or to a nice restaurant.

Granted, people don't much live like this anymore, but good gold is always gold.

291fifth

With gold as high as it is it may be time to cash out of jewelry items that have fallen out of favor. I can't see young people having much interest in that type of thing.

2dueces

I just got 3 shirts with French cuffs for Christmas. My wife bought me a set of diamond cuff links and tie clip. Those cuff links interest me more than the ring. Pretty cool for the right price.

1northcoin

Not coin related, but it does fit the topic of this thread.

When I was working as a college intern Probation/Parole Officer at a minimum security prison in Alaska, one of the inmates made several sets of walrus ivory and whale baleen cuff links featuring the baleen black silhouette of the Playboy Bunny over the white ivory. At his request I provided a set to Hugh Hefner when I returned to college in the Chicago area where Hefner then resided.

Subsequently I received a nice thank you letter from Hugh Hefner's then assistant Bobbie Arnstein letting me know how much Hefner appreciated them. I still have the matching pair the inmate made for me - and probably the letter as well somewhere. (If I can ever get photo bucket to start working again, I may come back and post a photo of the cuff links.)

mark_dak

@1northcoin said:
Not coin related, but it does fit the topic of this thread.

When I was working as a college intern Probation/Parole Officer at a minimum security prison in Alaska, one of the inmates made several sets of walrus ivory and whale baleen cuff links featuring the baleen black silhouette of the Playboy Bunny over the white ivory. At his request I provided a set to Hugh Hefner when I returned to college in the Chicago area where Hefner then resided.

Subsequently I received a nice thank you letter from Hugh Hefner's then assistant Bobbie Arnstein letting me know how much Hefner appreciated them. I still have the matching pair the inmate made for me - and probably the letter as well somewhere. (If I can ever get photo bucket to start working again, I may come back and post a photo of the cuff links.)

You'd think Hugh could write the thank you himself instead of his assistant... I'm sure he had his hands full and was too busy.

1northcoin

@mark_dak said:

@1northcoin said:
Not coin related, but it does fit the topic of this thread.

When I was working as a college intern Probation/Parole Officer at a minimum security prison in Alaska, one of the inmates made several sets of walrus ivory and whale baleen cuff links featuring the baleen black silhouette of the Playboy Bunny over the white ivory. At his request I provided a set to Hugh Hefner when I returned to college in the Chicago area where Hefner then resided.

Subsequently I received a nice thank you letter from Hugh Hefner's then assistant Bobbie Arnstein letting me know how much Hefner appreciated them. I still have the matching pair the inmate made for me - and probably the letter as well somewhere. (If I can ever get photo bucket to start working again, I may come back and post a photo of the cuff links.)

You'd think Hugh could write the thank you himself instead of his assistant... I'm sure he had his hands full and was too busy.

Actually Bobbi was a person of prominence in her own right at the time. A biographer, after her tragic death, described her as "assistant to the president of Playboy Enterprises, main lady of Hugh Hefner's 74-room Chicago mansion" noting that she had advanced from "social companion" to her eventual position as his executive assistant.

thebeav

Many years ago, I think it was 1980, Yul Brenner was in town performing the "King and I".
My shop was on a street that extended all the way down town, and I knew he would be in town for two weeks.
I had a neat set of Siamese coins, an older group in one of those folders that was made from some sort of woven material.
Anyway, I sent him the coins hoping he would see my street while cruising downtown and maybe stop by.
I did get a nice letter from his personal secretary saying that he kept the coins on his dressing table and used them to help stay in character. So there was that.....
I did go and see the show also, probably what helped inspire me to send the coins. I sat in the 3rd or 4th row. The curtain opens and here's Yul, in costume with his hands on his hips, feet spread apart.....hard to explain but it took your breath away. He was a special guy !

1northcoin, forget about photobucket. There are plenty of friendly and free photo sites......

tommy44

Sold these on eBay a few years ago.....

1northcoin

@1northcoin said:
Not coin related, but it does fit the topic of this thread.

When I was working as a college intern Probation/Parole Officer at a minimum security prison in Alaska, one of the inmates made several sets of walrus ivory and whale baleen cuff links featuring the baleen black silhouette of the Playboy Bunny over the white ivory. At his request I provided a set to Hugh Hefner when I returned to college in the Chicago area where Hefner then resided.

Subsequently I received a nice thank you letter from Hugh Hefner's then assistant Bobbie Arnstein letting me know how much Hefner appreciated them. I still have the matching pair the inmate made for me - and probably the letter as well somewhere. (If I can ever get photo bucket to start working again, I may come back and post a photo of the cuff links.)

Keeping my promise. I just came across the referenced item while looking for something else last night. I had forgotten that in addition to the cuff links there was also a third one for a tie tak pin to complete the set. I also note that it is the bunny that is made from white walrus ivory over the black whale baleen, although a piece of ivory under the black baleen does frame it.

Jimnight

Super cool.

csdot

Many moons ago (maybe around mid to late 1990s/early2000s) you could buy cufflink and button stud sets for your Tuxedo from the US Mint website made from $5GAE (Gold American Eagles) and $10PAE (Platinum American Eagles). Even though they were relatively cheap in the 1990s/2000s, I didn't have the discretionary money to buy them. By the time I could afford them, they disappeared from the USMint.gov website, never to be offered again.

Boosibri

Cuff links to to go with your double eagle gold pendant on a Mr T gold chain

DCW

@Boosibri said:
Cuff links to to go with your double eagle gold pendant on a Mr T gold chain

"I pity the fool..."

crazyhounddog

I wear a 1914 half eagle ring. I love coins so I like my ring. I won it in an auction at melt so I was extremely happy.

1northcoin

@csdot said:
Many moons ago (maybe around mid to late 1990s/early2000s) you could buy cufflink and button stud sets for your Tuxedo from the US Mint website made from $5GAE (Gold American Eagles) and $10PAE (Platinum American Eagles). Even though they were relatively cheap in the 1990s/2000s, I didn't have the discretionary money to buy them. By the time I could afford them, they disappeared from the USMint.gov website, never to be offered again.

Interesting historical information. Curious how many are still around?