Featured Finds Thread

Good grief.

 

good on you for checking the boxes out, great score!

lol komokwa

 

here are a couple of things I picked up this weekend - a piano player roll of Christmas tunes, for whenever I find a player piano that works and I can afford, a primitive cookie mold - has some damage on one end/corner, but I think this is an old one and a antique leather mill bucket.

 

Thanks Dave. lol, there was dust when I lifted this up after taking photos!

 

I love all the "pre-owned" sold listings...................

 

Also called "powder post beetles" USA side of the pond.....frequently never to be gotten rid of!!!!!

 

I'm wondering if that's not a maple sugar candy mold....?

 

Throw the Springerle mold in the freezer for a week; that ought to nail them. It doesn't work on furniture, since furniture doesn't fit, but a small piece like a cookie mold is another story.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/150123/traditional-springerle/

 

That sounds like a good excuse for a road trip on trash day! If people are tossing sterling I'm all for trash picking.

 

thanks for the tip evelyb30!

 

I imagine it could be used for that but I believe this was made for cookies

 

Maple cookies..????

 

I don't give monetary appraisals, but do sometimes advise people on the strong & weak points of a cameo they want to sell to help them set a price & for 2 years or more have had to tell some of them that a silver setting, even if sterling rather than Italian 800 silver, adds very little market value, that you can barely give silver away. Cameos, even ones of barely mediocre quality, are fetching good money if set in enough gold, while some very good ones can't get much more than $100 because they are in silver. Throwing it in the trash is a bit extreme.

 

That is a nice mold cxgirl. Wonder if it would work for little chocolates.
But cookies, sounds right.

 

Love the antique molds, CX. Really pretty!

Anund, only you would find GORHAM STERLING in the trash! Fantastic.

No gorgeous cookie molds or dumpster sterling on my end, but did find a few goodies.

This week found 6 Tiffany & Co rock crystal beer mugs, Edith Heath Sea and Sand pottery, Canadian artist Tela Purcell watercolor.

 

I like the watercolor. I wouldn't have much use personally for the beer mugs, although they'd be good for seltzer water, but they're pretty.

 

Late to the party, but I'd guess sturgeon.

 

Today I got this at Savers. Old Wallingford M22, bon-bon dish. About 5 inch diameter.

Weighted and a bit dented.

 

OTOH it'll melt just fine. It's possibly the best use for 1950s mass produced wedding silver anyway.