Featured Finds Thread

Love that piece of Weller! @aaroncab It is a looker.

 

Sometimes at estate auctions you run into that bidder that buys up everything you like. That was today for me, an older lady in her 60's outbid me an others all day long on a variety of antique and vintage items, the cream of the crop of the sale. She had a giant pile of stuff in the middle of the yard, hope she brought a uhaul.

Some of the auctioneers assistants that I regularly chat with were telling me that they have been seeing greatly increased interest in antiques during the pandemic and that they and some of their friends can't source goods for their flea market stalls at a reasonable cost right now.

I ended up winning these card catalogs for what I though was a very reasonable price. The first one is a little bit nicer but I was happy to get them both.

 

Are you going to "Flea Market Flip" them or leave them be?

 

Just going to enjoy using the top one. It fits postcards so I imagine I'll be able to fit around 500 or so in it. The bottom one, I may try to resell eventually.

Would you please describe exactly what you mean, I assume alter them in some way to increase resale? Probably not, but I'm not as attached to the 2nd one.

 

It's a TV show on Great American Country. Contestants try to find pieces of [whatever] to restore, remake, refurbish etc. These are then sold at another flea and whoever makes the most net profit wins. They paint a lot of nice wood, but some things are really creative.

 

A couple of weeks worth of finds...
Too cute egg cups (?) ,they have "souvenier of Niagra Falls" stickers but are made in Germany .


Love this little trio of studio pottery !


5x5 tile,Im sure newer but for $1 I had to


Adorable bathing beauty box . They had it wrapped heavily in plastic so I didnt see the chip till I got it home.Nonetheless,shes a keeper.


Finally , Bayel owl stemmed glasses,I found 3 but one has a flea bite on the rim.

 

Love that tile!!

 

I found 4 Morgantown Mikado iced teas in a junk shop. It's getting harder and harder to find nice, old, etched stems so I grab them when I see them

 

Finally resized last weekend's take's pictures. Such as it is. $34 including some straight-to-scrap freshwater rice pearl and 14k jewelry that's not pictured. I bought the Judaica-themed cocktail picks because they're brand new in box and the box came from Grossinger's Hotel.

 

Wow, great finds everyone. Thanks for posting. So fun to see what people come up with these days.

P.S. Johnny I would have grabbed that bathing beauty box in a NY minute, chip or no chip!

 

Came across these two silver plate boxes yesterday, marked KraftAlpaca for Robert Kraft, Germany.

 

I haven't looked at this thread in ages. I have to go back and see what everyone found.

 

That happens to me all the time !!! Then I spend an hour doing it!

 

Well, returned to Spitalfields for the first time since lockdown! Love the junk trays for affordable mystery items. Here’s the lot:



* Millefiori cabochon (Chinese?)
* x2 polished stones (milky and moss green)
* Pyrite
* Toledoware ship earring
* Reader’s Digest Token
* Dutch 25c 1944 altered for jewellery
* 1869 British Prince of Wales 1/2 sov token
* Grow-a-pearl kit pendant
* Homemade sea glass pendant
* Watch components in case
* Terracotta Bacchus cameo
* plastic black cat charm
* photograph of someone’s beloved dog
* Snake charm (hoping sterling)

Help IDing the stones welcome, I can post better photos of them. Hope you’re all finding time to hunt for things too

 

The big green and white chunk is moss agate; it comes clear and opaque. The chunk at the bottom is often sold as jade; I'm not sure what it really is. The pyrite is pyrite.

 

I won this in a local on-line auction with a bunch of other pens, gold plated Sheaffer fountain pen



these were in the bag of pens, to do threading of some sort? the piece with the black handle says Trade Mark Pat Apr 6 09. I'll start a thread to ask about them



heavy pair of brass candle sticks 4 1/2"H, no screw in the base, looks like a brass plug?

 

those kind look like bombs, made of shell casings....
@springfld.arsenal , should have these on his mantle !!!

 

Rug making tools by the look of them.

 

This is a nice find @@cxgirl

This seems to be a gold plated Sheaffer Targa with a classic chequered patternThis should have a 14-carat gold nib.
You seem to have original box and papers which is also very good.