Featured Finds Thread

Yes. Three times. I wanted you to see my frog. He is so fine, I thought it would make you more happy.

 

It DID! Awfully cute, he/she is! Enjoy!

 

Went to an antique/vintage mall and was not disappointed. There is something so much more satisfying in looking and touching things in person!

The wee clutch from Japan

Bone puzzle ball

Garnet screw-back earrings. I hope I can get these converted. They are 14k gold.

A spoon ring

Teeny tiny cameo post earrings, gold over silver. These came out of the “odds and ends” basket in a booth. I love digging in booths like that especially when they come out to less than a dollar.

And these little dangle earrings with what I think may be opals? I can’t tell. They looked like little opaque white stones and I only saw the colors once I got them home and light hit them at the right angle. The color of the metal is what made me pick them up to begin with. Looked like gold and at a few dimes worth the risk. These also came out of the “odds and ends” basket.

 

that bag must feel so good in the hand....!!! Hooray for U !!!!

 

I wouldn't mess with the garnets; as a person of no holes I wear screwbacks for preference. I'd also get a good look at the puzzle ball under a loupe; that might not be bone. I scored a bit o'the other at a consignment store this winter. They knew what it was but couldn't say so. A friend in North Carolina is getting that one.

Got a few scores of my own today, but no pictures yet.

 

Late night ebay browsing (bad habit) scored me this glass scarab paperweight:

 

Gorgeous ! Tiffany ?

 

It's very favrile-esque but no - I wish! I do know who it is because it's marked - but I don't think the seller realized it because it wasn't mentioned in the listing...

Evan Chambers - "Pavonine" glass ... based in Pasadena California.

 

A BUUUG!!!!
Very nice!!!

 

I overspent on this. My mama was an actress and did much radio work, so I spent a great deal of time in BBC Studios as a child.

 

that is pretty cool bear

 

love it aaron

 

Something that meaningful...impossible to overspend

 

My thoughts exactly............!!!!!

 

Well, quite - that was my reasoning too. And I did haggle! He wanted £110 and I got it down to £80. Now to find somewhere to PUT it.......

I have a permanent search on Fleabay for things connected to my mama and her grandfather. Both thespians.

 

Would we Brits know of her?

Agree. I randomly bought my mother an enamel hospital ward name sign from eBay from the hospital I knew she had worked at in the 50s. She was speechless when she opened the present as totally by chance it was the ward she worked on when she first qualified as a nurse. Amazing it survived and it was obviously meant to be!. It's only a piece of metal but she loves it as it brings back very happy memories for her.

 

Speaking of significant "signs" - for Christmas this year, DD stumbled upon a painting of the sign that hung outside a bakery my husband frequently took both children to when I worked on Saturdays. The bakery is no longer in business but she and DS talk about the place and the frosting roses they were given often. She purchased the painting and spent a ridiculous sum on having it matted and framed in time for ther family gathering. Needless to say, DS was blown away.

Linda

 

Brits would know of her, but I'm a tad leary of posting her name on a forum.

 

Here's most of the good stuff from the last two days. There's some sterling in here, and what I think is a D&E necklace. The pink bracelet is Links of London and the tigerseye is Lee Sands, still with tag. The black ones are Italian cased glass. There are set of six of those glasses; they're all hand-engraved. Harrington, I think; it was a custom shop in California. Dunno if it's still in operation. They were too cool to pass up. I want to get one under a blacklight and see what it does.

 

Ooh how exciting, the mystery deepens, I'll have to start guessing