Featured Finds Thread

Wow, just Wow

 

enjoy the downtime........!!

 

Enjoy your new accommodations, but I hope you laid in enough TP for all the trips to the loo.

 

I just re-found the pieces and made them into the bracelet. The dangles are all trolley or early bus tokens; one is dated 1924 and another one is from Honolulu. I don't think they're any too valuable, but they're cool.

 

And here I'm always trying to rescue them from jewelry.

99.99% were made in huge numbers and never thrown away

 

are they bus tokens Terry?

 

Just watched Bargain Hunt. Gary Pe, the "expert" produced his bargain buy and said "this is a genuine antique, it was made in the mid 1900's" Now I believe the mid 1900's put it at 1950's, but the "expert" spoke, so it must be a "genuine antique"

 

How old is Gary Pe?

 

I remember in Anita Mannings early appearances she used to pronounce Clarice Cliff Fantasque ceramic design as Fantastique.

 

I looks as if he is in his late fifties, early sixties.

 

He should know better.

 

There is a dealer we will forever call "klitchy" He was talking about a Clichy sulphide paperweight and kept saying "klitchy" Another had to pick something in an auction they were at and he decided to talk about a Louis Icart print. He pronounced his name "Lewis Eye cart" These are the "experts" chosen by the tv programmes, so they must be right.

 

I agree. As an "expert" chosen to be on the tv show, he should have a basic knowledge.

 

He's an antique himself, according to that. The one that got me was watching a young Youtuber who said "this sweatshirt is early 90s reverse weave; it's vintage."

 

That made me laugh.

 

I don't drill holes in coins or tokens, but if they come with holes they're fair game. (LOL)

 

I've always said "old" is defined as anything made before you were! Some kids are collecting cell phones! The go with their parents' calculators.

 

Heck, I am antique now judging by what some call antiques.