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As has been said, take the items to a couple of local jewelry stores. Especially ones that specialize in estate items. You could use your experience as a banker to tell the jeweler that you are getting them valued for a client. I think they would be inclined to give you a more fair estimate of their value. When I worked for the bank Trust department we used to have to do this all the time. A lot of times the jewelry would be willed to someone, but still had to be valued for estate tax purposes.
I'm sure you're aware that the markup on jewelry is worse tha furniture >>100%. MSRP means virtually nothing as far as actual value.
Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.
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