Featured Finds Thread

Thank you!!! I am still in shock, as are my co-workers, that I broke down and bought a new car.

 

Our son's first car, at age 17, was a white, '81 Camaro Berlinetta - I agree with you Marko. It was a fun car but just about nickle & dimed us to death and was horrible in deep Wisconsin snow. Later he got a Dodge Stratus (with his own money by then), somehow I ended up owning it when he went in the service. . .I HATED that car and it broke down if I even looked at it.

 

Honda Jazz, me, love them. I wish they still made the Insight, tho'.

 

We do too. Wishing you comfort and joy and reliabiliy.

The automotive love of my life was a family hand-me-down 1968 Olds Cutlass, blue-green body, black vinyl top. My dad did his own tune ups, oil changes, etc., & none of our many GM cars ever broke down. The Cutlass had over 100,000 miles on it when sold in 1976, a lot of miles for cars of that vintage.

 

Growing up my parents had a 1984 Toyota Tercel. Man my father loved that car, since it was like the energizer bunny and kept going and going and going some more. In the end it rusted out before it was mechanically unsound and we got rid of it when it hit 325,000 miles. A mechanic friend of my dad's bought it for $200 since he had just started a new job 40 miles away one way and the old Tercel nearly got 50 miles to the gallon. Apparently he put it into a demolition derby a year later with north of 350,000 miles on the odometer and it won the top prize and still ran all the way to the junkyard to be scrapped. If it didn't rust out so badly we would likely still have the thing today!

 

Hi,
My favorite car was a 1956 MG convertible. I ran that beauty for over 200,000 miles only replaced the tires, brakes and a radiator hose. The only car I ever regretted getting rid of was my BIL's 1970 Honda Accord. He bought it in 2008 for 200 bucks. It had 28 thousand miles on it. It ran like a charm. All original including the car mats. The only thing wrong with it was the battery would only last six months. I bought a new battery at Costco for 89 dollars with a one year warranty. Every 6 months Costco replaced the battery for free. I used it when I was the Au Pair for my nephews. The only thing that bothered me was it had no air bags. I was so sad when he sold it. He got 2000 dollars for it.
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Mine was white with a red interior. I remember going head first into a snowbank and having to jam my floor mats under my back tires to get the car out. Front end heavy with rear wheel drive.

 

I could have continued running the Lumina for another 100,000 miles, but was tired of not knowing when I would have to fix something else.

 

My folks more recently had a 2004 PT Cruiser. Probably the worst vehicle they ever had. By the time we got rid of it was 8 years old, had 200,000 miles and was worth $500 despite outwardly not looking too bad. My dad was always working on that car, replacing the same junk parts every few years and it would always have more issues on the horizon that he needed to address. There is a reason why many shady used car lots are full of used, relatively new Big Three manufactured cars for not a lot of money.

 

Those PT Cruisers were cute, but that's about it.

This is most of the fun stuff I found last week. The two cardinal pins aren't old; they're Joan Rivers. I paid $5 for the pair; they're selling for about $30 and $50 respectively. (oops!) The filigree piece is unmarked, but I'm guessing it's Israeli. That center looks suspiciously like Eilat. The Luckenbooth pin is Miracle. The earrings were in a random jewelry bin at an antique store. They're not marked, but they're artisan silver. The t-bars on the chair lifts do just that. Pretty cool. They had the highest price tag. Not shown are some probable jade fish I put on sterling wires; they came with nothing.

 

Agree, Israel and Eilat stone in the centre.

 

Every so often in the thrifts I find these brass bowls marked just "CHINA" on the back - it's my understanding they are pre 1920- back to perhaps very late 19th? Anyhow I usually pass them up because they normally aren't very well done and/or are pretty banged up. This one was particularly well done (vs others I've seen) also in good condition, also pretty huge at 15" across and weighs close to 6 pounds. Anyhow I couldn't pass it up. Here it is!

 

Found a bunch of Steuben selenium red, late day $avers pick for $10.99+.
6 champagnes and 4 goblets.

 

Where did you get that information? I have not been able to document the block letter CHINA marking to that early. Seems in may have been used as late as the 50s from what I can tell.

 

I'll have to track it down, I remember googling on multiple occasions and seeing it in at least 2 different places, but going off "memory of reading it in a couple places" isn't good enough for a real date - I assume these could be newer than 1920 as well.

 

One of the places is Gotheborg - which of course is mostly for ceramics but - I think the info on China vs Made in China applied to other goods as well:

https://gotheborg.com/qa/madeinchina.shtml

 

Gorgeous !

 

beautiful.

I have multiple newbie questions.
Is steuben marked on these? like how rosenthal or lalique would be marked on the glasses?
Otherwise how did you identify them to be steuben? My guess would be you just know the design, if you collect it long enough.

 

I have two of those 'China' marked brass bowls, they were sent to my grandmother in the 1910s by an admirer who had joined the navy. He sent her a lot of Asian items, but couldn't win her heart. A few years later she married my grandfather.