Featured Finds Thread

Thanks moon! I started a thread on the art board

 

No its ugly, send it to me and I will dispose of it properly..........

 

LOVE the horse...of course

 

Thanks Shiloh there are 2 horse prints, I thought you might like those!

 

I love the horse print, and that's a great doll, Sharonna.

Got up early Saturday, went to two yard sales, three flea markets, and an antique mall.
First, a brass & glass ring, Beaux Arts motif, here snakey snakey:

 

These pins were $1 each. Umbrella is Danecraft, heart is Coro sterling:

 

champagne colored pearls, also $1:

 

This piece I really wanted. The woman insisted she had to sell all of her jewelry at high prices because it was her mothers. That only made sense to her, I am sure for sentimental reasons. I waited until the end of the day before she could let go of it on a price we could agree on.

 

Ewww thats lovely, worth waiting for!

 

Thanks on the doll Marko I know your a doll collector/seller
I rarely buy dolls but I grabbed her in the lot of stuff I bought. She is marked I think 102 5/0 I found some 102 heads but not complete dolls. Not clear what the numbers mean, I think it 102 the first number is a bit blurry could be 902? You have any thoughts on her? thanks

 

What are these ugly dolls?

 

What are these ugly dolls?

1920's foreplay. They were kinda repressed in those days.

 

I'm just creeped out by a grown man playing with a doll. What is he thinking?

 

I'm just creeped out by a grown man playing with a doll. What is he thinking?

You really don't want me to tell you the story of that picture. .......

 

Oh yes we do!

 

Hi,
Back then 1905 there were no health classes at school. Jenethia and Horace had to pratice with dolls so on their honeymoon they got it right.
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It's a heart rending tale of catatonia and delusion, and the pioneering work of the Viennese Dr. Marionette and his object displacement therapy, whereby he transferred the self consciousness of the beautiful but "mad as a box of frogs" countess Elena Mussorgsky into the body of a doll, bringing her into a fugue state whereby she externalised her persona into the doll.

Unhappily,although out of the original catatonic state, and responsive to outside influences as long as they addressed her doll-body, not the flesh that her soul cringed from, she formed an emotional attachment with the doctor's 'doctor doll' that he used in the therapy.

In a few words, the case was altered, but not really improved. It took some really inventive work with a sock puppet, (using finer and finer weave socks) by the doctor, to remedy the situation, and because all the more sensitive parts of these old medical treatises are written in Latin (See Sacher-Masoch, Krafft-Ebing and others) I cannot divulge the details to a mixed audience, including some possibly of tender years.
Suffice it to be said, the unfortunate coincidence of a visit by an inspector from the Viennese Quack Society, coupled with some especially vigorous and noisy sock puppet therapy was enough to promote a scandal that drove them both to a secluded part of the Black Forest, where they eked out a meagre living carving wooden dolls, the living made especially meagre by the Countess's intransigent refusal to part with any of what she sincerely regarded as her 'family' of carved moppets. Without Dr. Marionette's sock puppets and their fan base among the local womenfolk, they might well have starved.

Not a happy story, without a happy ending, and it was only by coincidence of seeing that picture here that I was reminded of those days in Vienna so long ago.

 

Bwhahahahaha! And then the sock puppets morphed into sock monkeys and the world was DOOMED!

 

Oh My Ceiling Cat!!
I thought I was going to choke, I was laughing so hard (and I may need a new computer chair now)!!

 

I wonder if the dolls might be Billikens? Read about the Billiken here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiken

St. Louis University named its sports teams the Billikens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Louis_Billikens

http://www.slu.edu/evgrn-what-is-a-billiken

There was also some other odd figure popular around that time, but I can't remember what it was.

Oh, here are some Billiken dolls, to compare.

https://www.google.com/search?q=bil...KHyASDr4CQAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg&biw=1600&bih=775

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