Featured Finds Thread

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by verybrad, May 25, 2014.

  1. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    You must have Scottish or a Yorkshire bloodline.:hilarious::hilarious:
     
  2. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    I'm trying to rival @bercrystal, :) I now have 5, though these are modern, I think.

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  3. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    I found a small amount of gold and silver today in the latest clearance, gold chain and fob, bracelet and ring and a childs silver Christening bracelet.

    3 small money bags, UK cash, Euros and foriegn coins.

    Family have been there all weekend and took away a pile of crap and paid me to remove the rest.:cool:

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  4. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    I love you get paid to find these treasures. I know the rest of it is just hard work, but still, this is sweet!
     
  5. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Hard work and exercise is the way I look at it, with a cash bonus.:cool:
     
  6. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    That's a nice little haul!
     
  7. Marko

    Marko Well-Known Member

    Wow, I never heard of neodynum glass. Thanks, guys, you keep me learning.
     
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  8. Marie Forjan

    Marie Forjan Well-Known Member

    I have a few pieces of neodymium glass right now made by Cambridge Glass. The pieces are lavender under day light and pale blue-gray under florescent light. These are some individual nuts in that color I just sold:

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  9. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I have a few pieces of it set in jewelry. I bought a piece once sold as a blue stone, and then got it outside where it turned purple. It's been known to turn up in Israeli jewelry too, generally set in sterling.
     
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  10. Bdigger

    Bdigger Well-Known Member

    neodymium glass.....Often called Alexandrite, Neodymium is the mineral added to the glass to make it change color.
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  11. Joe2007

    Joe2007 Collector

  12. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

    Love that Old Ironsides pin, I have a few spikes from the USS Constitution, given to me from a friend of my dad’s in the early 1970s after he did some restoration work on her. Strange that I don’t find any history of restoration work done in the 70’s on the museum website.
     
  13. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    maybe cuz too much stuff got lifted from the work !!! Heehehe!!
     
  14. Hollyblue

    Hollyblue Well-Known Member

    It was in dry dock for repairs April 1973 until April 1974.
     
  15. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

    Thank you, that’s definitely when I got them!
     
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  16. anundverkaufen

    anundverkaufen Bird Feeder

    He had a large pail full and let me pick a bunch from it. Sharpie is for size reference.
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  17. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    framed history........u have the details written on the back.......RIGHT ?
     
  18. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    There are other colour changing glass types as well as the blue/lilac neodymium based ones. I've one which goes reddish to green. Depends on which rare earth element is used in the mix.
     
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  19. BMRT

    BMRT Jewelry cherry-picker, lover of silver

    Took a few days off work, cleaned my house, and indulged.

    7271DFD8-68FC-4A97-973E-323EE94678D0.jpeg Here is the entire little horde

    1236B3AE-AF0A-4CB5-A13F-A2C89198ED6C.jpeg This ring I was most excited for. It’s a teeny weenie coral cameo set in unmarked 14k gold. Ring is sized 4.75.

    04E7D4AC-0998-4B44-BF95-194BF8677D7A.jpeg This necklace I’ve looked at for a bit. I think it’s that Arts & Crafts? There is no clasp anywhere and it is very very long. No maker mark or anything telling us it’s composition but it is silver. The little stones on the sides are held in place differently than the larger ones. All the smaller grooves show signs of this one being gold dipped but its long since come off.

    AD34F5CF-ABC2-4DDD-8F1A-6DFEFCC0E5C7.jpeg The white beads are glass. I feel the large bow looking links are a bit clumsy compared to the rest of it but I’ve admired the Wedding Cake beads someone posted on one of the forums and when I found a seller with a bunch of them I pounced.
     
  20. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    I think your lng necklace is 1920s - typical flapper length.
     
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