Featured Finds Thread

How about an early ad starting them YOUNG!!!!

 

Aquitaine, now THAT is scary!

 

AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!!! If I went WITH the grain.....I'd STILL be at it after MANY decades on ONE shave.....'NUFF SAID!!!!!

 

You can still buy Wilkinson Blades online......

 

Hmmm....I don't think so.....think the larger one is just 2 pieces, then cut outs..... will post a pic....yours looks much nicer.........he's got them NAILED to the corner....and I AIN'T foolin' with THAT!!!!!

 

NAILED!!!! ?????
YIPES!!!!
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Nice though! Thanks!

 

Thrift shopping is for the birds...(found this Bakufu Ohno woodblock today )

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Aaron, I like that - a lot!

 

Heron you say that , I crane my neck to view your new birds !!!

 

"Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? Just like me, they long to be ... close to you".

 

Nice shelf, King. I love the silver, Brad. Woo Hoo on the cat!!!

I just went for a walk on the boardwalk today before the rain came in. There was an estate sale we happened upon, a lot of old furniture, it appears the lady came from Germany... I was surprised how much was still there at half price. I just got a couple of silk scarves for a dollar each.... I pick them up when I see them cheap. I bet she had some jewelry, but the people running the show probably got it.

I got this at the last indoor antique show I went to, there is a date of 1978 in it, can't identify the artist. I am picking up old turquoise when I see it cheap, too.



This Van Dell gold-filled cameo set was $9 in an antique mall

I found this bracelet in a thrift shop, newer, can't identify the maker


Then there was this heavy sterling bracelet marked JCM and Italy for $2

And this sterling vermeil onxy necklace for $4

 

Peter Johnson
(Moriarty, NM)......maybe the ring ?

 

Someone cared about that ring; they dremeled some insurance info into it. If the bracelet were real metal I'd be looking at Church's. This however is relatively modern costume, so I haven't a clue.

As for today's finds, I'll have to get them photographed such as they were. I did score a satin utility jacket that I'm pretty sure was police issue a long time ago. It says Made in USA.

 

Evelyb, what insurance information? I tried googling the EFN part, I couldn't figure it out. I don't know much about turquoise, the the 1978 date made me pick it up for $25 because I have read the older mines in the USA are being mined out.....even the newer ones, too. I hope you had a Happy Birthday. Celebrate all week! I looked at Peter Johnson... not sure, but thanks.

 

I bet there are more gems to be found but it's harder to look for them now and maybe people are too lazy to hike, live hard, dig and swing a pick.

 

The EFN and number was probably added to identify it for insurance (and possibly inventory) purposes. 90% of the metal ware (silver, jewellery, some bronzes, etc.) I have inherited had numbers scratched into them.

 

I have a bird theme going... except a flightless one today - 4 bucks for this beautiful glass penguin (quite large - about 15" high)

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That's what I thought too. I've also found them scratched into plated objects not worth the time of day.

 

Beautiful -- Looks like a nice companion and sentinel.

 

Indeed! ... a worthy aviary addition to my parlor