Featured Finds Thread

@daveydempsey - you did find a few postcards after all. Any naughty ones? The risque stuff sells nicely.

 

Go to Lidl and buy their cheap limescale remover gel. It won't do any harm at all, and it takes limescale off glazed pots very nicely indeed. Or if you want to try vinegar - the bicarb neutralises it, so don't do that - buy Lidl's cheap vinegar, 25 pence a bottle and fill the bowl with it for a few hours.

 

We had a local online sale that sold a KKK outfit recently. I know this stuff is historic but it rubs me the wrong way. I don't think I would be able to buy or sell it.

 

That machine is AWESOME and looks in NEW condition!!!! GREAT find!!!!!!!

 

Anybody else picture ladies in big hats and chiffon tea gowns and dapper gentleman in suits dancing to this ?

 

I dont know why someone would want stuff associated with so much hate,Nazi stuff either,but there you have it. I did grow up with casual racist stuff like lawn jockeys and mammy stuff all over the place,and even as a kid I thought it wasnt very appropriate. By the mid 70s most people realized and put it away,but there were holdovers like my great aunt who had a lot of mammy kitchen stuff.

 

Hi Johnnie,
I remember the year 1985 very well. I took a really nice Japanese guy who was helping me go through my great aunts Japanese collections to meet her sister my grandmother. My grandmother was very polite and offered us tea. When we were leaving I stopped back to get my camera I had left on the counter. My grandmother had just thrown my friends cup in to the garbage. I was looking at my grandmother and asked why. She said "Pearl Harbour" I hate those Japanese. I was so shocked I did not know what to say.
greg

 

Thanks OBB,
I will give it a try, and keep in cupboard for future use just as soon as the snow clears a bit to walk down there.

 

My Mother worked for Japanese Citizen Watches back in the 80s here in UK and there were phone calls to her asking about the Company. After confirmation of product origin they said although they liked the watches they couldn’t bear to buy them because they had lost loved ones to sunk ships etc

 

Got some thing for music too, today!

 

Spent $30 today

Simple artisan thing of sterling and 14K wire. Anyone recognize it to a certain maker?

The rest was mostly just 14K and 750. Those fine chains took a good hour to unknot.

 

NICE Cameo!!!! In fact, NICE Lot of stuff!!!!

 

Nice haul, @terry5732 ! I love untangling jewelry - just ask my cats aka the Tangle Gang

Same here; wouldn't be able to profit from such. My medals were inherited - in a steamer trunk full o'stuff - & will go to a museum someday.

 

Hey Davey, most interesting!
If you find one treating about Belgian uniforms or anything related to, I would be willing to buy it!

 

$8.00 of fun today

New old stock Parker failures from 1965

 

I like the spoon! Got a photo of that?

 

I wanna shop where you shop !!
Great finds......the little phone...& microphone are deeelishious.....