This unusual lot of a variety of colored stones and pearls were inherited from my grandfather who was a jeweler in the 1930s in San Francisco. He was not a wealthy man, and it is unlikely that any of these stones are genuine, even though some of the small folded paper envelopes have writing on them identifying them as “emeralds, rubies, sapphires, white sapphires, garnets, amethyst, doublets, opals, and pearls”. Other writing on the packets identify the contents of each as “imt.” or “imitation”. Many do not have that identifier.  I had a jeweler look at the “emeralds” and he said they were “synthetic”. He also looked at the packages labeled “sapphires” and “rubies” and said there was nothing valuable. He did not look at every small package, of which there are approximately 55.  Some of the labels on the tiny paper packages (written by my grandfather in the 1930s) say: “pearls” (approx. 7 packages), “seed pearls” (2 packages), “imitation pearl” (1 package with 1 pearl); “emeralds” (1 package with approx. 10 stones of various shapes and sizes); “red garnets” (1 package with approx. 40 small stones); “rubies” (4 packages with approx. 35 stones of various shapes and sizes); “sapphires” (2 packages with approx. 30 stones of various shapes, sizes, and color richness); “white sapphire” (1 package of 6); “amethyst” (1 package of approx. 50 stones of various shapes and sizes); “opals” (4 packages with approx. 50 of various shapes and sizes); “doublets” (2 packages of different colored stones of various shapes and sizes, mostly small).  There are many other small packages, some that are either unlabeled or say imitation on them.  Others are labeled as:  “chatons crystal, colored foils, crystal ear drops (2), marcasites, red caps, and jobbing stones”.  Because I have very little information on what this lot is worth or how these stones can be used, I’m putting them on EBay to see what the interest is.