Featured Finds Thread

Ariadne...thank you. Another thing to look up!

Lol they do look suspiciously similar don’t they. Very large lamps, the busts sit on large heavy black squares I suspect are some type of stone. Perhaps jet? The similarities in the material and details remind me of my bisque plaques.

 

Wow, amazing finds!!! People are really scoring some goodies in the last few weeks!

Johnny, those enamel pieces...love that kind of thing. They remind me of the Brumm sculptures. I've seen others signed "Lee" online. Very nice!

BMRT -- going back a few pages, love that silver Moe frame.

Massive scores on silver, etc. Well done, all!

Not much to offer this week, and I don't collect S&P's, but these were all at an estate sale, they just cracked me up and could not pass at $2 a pair.



(Keeping for now...)

 

According to this seller they are Napco & are part of a "Farm Girl Series".

They are great & I would not have left them behind either.

 

Those are adorable ! I would have jumped on those with both feet !

 

Johnny, I saw them in the pictures for the sale online --an anthropomorphic row of vegetable heads with skirts among a probably 50 S&P shaker sets. They were the first in my bag.

Yes, they are all stamped Napco. Didn't know there was a series or the name --Farm Girl, lol! Thanks, Peggy.

Doing a bit of research with that name, turns out the series has 12. Here are the four I don't have. The beet (2nd from right top row) and the strawberry, cucumber, and apple (right 3 bottom row.)

 

Hi MBRT,
Love your stuff. The lamps are just like two that I bought 20 years ago. I "bronzed" them. I paid 15 dollars each, spent 6 dollars each. Resold them for 250 dollars.
greg

 

Oh how I wish these could have been at 250. I would’ve snatched them so fast... these are sitting pretty at $750.

 

Likely not a very old Giacometti style bronze but for less than $5 equivalent it was a good buy from CShop, the Italian silver chain was less than $1.

 

bought another vase the white in the deer and white lines are incised

 

Lloyd, there's some cool info here:
https://manapottery.com/about/

 

thank you SBSVC , i thought it said mang lol ,it is a very nice to the touch pot as in very smooth , and now i know why .

 

after reading that and looking at info it looks to be Immanuel's work .

 

Talking of which.

The things that show up at car boot sales for twenty pence....

 

love these salt & peppers

nice piece Lloyd

 

Okay I give up. Please educate me on this piece & why it is so special. I could not read the last part of the inscription & know bupkis about this type of piece.

 

It is not special. It is modern. They sell new for $29 online. Made to fool.

 

It has to be a lot rarer in the UK. Navajo souvenir pottery. I can't really read whodunnit, but they don't sell cheaply at the point of origin.

 

Mary somebody, can't get the last name. I've a fair bit of South Western pottery, bought both there and here, it consorts with the kachinas and the jools. Some nice Santa Maria burnished black, which I am fond of.

It amuses me that a little Dineh pot travels all the way to my local car boot sale.

My favourite thing, which I must photograph, is a large clay bowl, made to look like a pueblo kiva, complete with a one inch tall kachina. Carried all the way home on my lap on a British Airways 747. Bought it in Tucson, from memory.

 

I went to a church thrift this morning and spent $31 total. One of my happy finds was a low value Oscar the Grouch switch plate, but hey it's Oscar. The expensive item of the day was $10. I don't have it photographed yet, but ... Tiffany & Co sterling bumble bee pin. Oops.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Ti...908224?hash=item4b6b401200:g:~IwAAOSwCrFdhDn9

 

Very nice everyone. Love the cute shakers, so cool. I would have grabbed them too. Love the ballerina too.

Ruth you have so many church sales there, we have so few here. Lucky gal you are.