Featured Finds Thread

how did u even know that could be worth money..??
or...it just looked cute....?

 

I picked it up and put it in my basket just because I liked it, that selling price was a complete surprise for a non-vintage set.
I’ve long been a cup and saucer collector and I was aware of some vintage and antique tea leaf reading sets that brought good money. I’m very surprised to find out what this particular set achieved considering that it’s not really even vintage. On the bottom of the saucer there is even a (defunct) dot com address LOL.

 

Probably got a dot.bomb dropped on it in 2001 or whatever it was, the year the boom went bust. Odds are people are putting them back into service, tea leaves being about as accurate as anything else these days!

 

I knew it was Fenton as soon as I saw it. It has that luscious liquid quality. If found the exact same piece, as 1940's-50's. Fenton Square Hobnail Milk Glass Vintage Lidded Candy DIsh | Etsy I don't know if that date is true. Someone donated a white milk glass collection, but this was the only one I recognized.

 

It looks like it's coming to a boil.

 

lol Bronwen

maybe check the Fenton catalogs to find out when it was in production
http://www.fentonfan.com/catalog.html

 

Thank you. I'll do that.

 

Also, generally if there is no Fenton mark it is pre 1970s when they used a sticker that is almost always lost. Not a lot of help but if gives you some idea.

 

Wonderful information. I very much appreciate it. Most of the Fenton, I've found is newer.

 

Found this in my cupboard (so not a recent find) but reminded me of the Napco Christmas set with original box @cxgirl just posted.

 

Found it in my Fenton book, Milk Glass Hobnail Cigarette Box, #3685, made between 1961-72

 

Marie. You are terrific!!!!!!!!!! Thanks so much for looking this up. I can see now this is the size of cigarettes. I just assumed candy. So great to know the right time frame too. Thank you again.

 

You can still use it for candy unless you live in one of those states where it is legal & then you can store your "special cigarettes" in it.

 

Ohhhh. And so I do. And there is a store right next to the resale shop I go to.

 

I love your set Lucille so nice when you have the box with them too! Thanks for sharing it

 

Found - four boxes of small vintage ornaments, including a Shiny-bright ornament. Headed straight to an antiques dealer. I am so NOT shipping those!

 

I agree. I sell antique and vintage glassware and a lot of what I sell are sets of glasses. Vintage and antique water stems used to be 8 or 9 ounces. Wines, depending on when they were made, would have been 4 to 6 ounces, too small for today's wine drinkers. So the old wines I sell for cocktails or sherry etc. and the water glasses for wine. It doesn't matter what they were originally made for, I tell my buyers use them for whatever you want

 

Excellent suggestion. I wondered about that when I see all the glassware I see in all shapes and sizes.

 

Yep! This link is general, it doesn't take into account how sizes have changed over the last 150 years
https://www.replacements.com/crystal-checklist?page=0