She could call them one by one, but what would they tell her? More importantly, why would they divulge any details of the precious possession? If anything, they would view her with suspicion. No, that would not work, she decided.
She typed “vintage silver necklace with blue stone auction” into every search engine she could think of. No matches. She tried pawnshop databases. Nothing. It was as if the necklace had fallen into a black hole the moment it left her hands, for only a mirage of it to appear on TV after so many years.