Featured Finds Thread

Based on your Savers - and now yard sale finds I'd say the people in your area may have a strange genetic allergy to silver. Very nicely done!

 

Like I've said before, I feel like I'm the only picker around here. I see a lot of the same people everywhere I pick and have befriended quite a few of them. None of them ever talk about silver. Many of them still look for primitives and country kitsch, which still seems popular here.

 

Not terribly valuable but still my favorite, it's only marked coin, no makers mark.

 

Well, all I can say is

 

For a second there I thought I was looking at a Viking hoard! Whew! Today I went hunting and found...not a ton. Stood waiting for a number at an estate sale only to find out the bulk of the jewelry isn't going to be there until I'm in church tomorrow. Did get some stuff.... and then on impulse checked my dad's old dresser in the bedroom. Found close to $1000 in class rings (dad's from college) and Grandma's engagement ring. I thought my sister had them all locked up in her safe, but apparently not. No pix of the class rings (they're monsters but they're class rings) but these are Grandma's and great-grandma's engagement rings. My grandmother's is the one with the butterflies and the amethyst. Figured I'd take a quick picture before stashing them again.

 

Family treasures -- what a nice find!

 

Amazing finds everyone! Few things I picked up recently...
weird 70s wine carafe,the lines captured me!

Darling little dresser set,11x8,I think parts are glass,part china. Any ideas on age?


Fossil vases,newish Pakistan,but I love them!


7 inch high sterling and glass tea caddy


Taper candlestick (?) 8 1/2 inches high


Stangl terra Rose skillet

Gorgeous 8 inch
taper candlesticks,any ideas who ?


Last but not least,this honking big costume jewelry necklace. Not my normal thing,but for a buck I thought I could make a brooch out of it. Its heavy as heck too.

 

I can't see the clasp, or the back really for that matter, but odds are the necklace is brand harry spankers. If so, you have my blessing to mess with it. For a buck there's no downside.

 

AWESOME find on the family rings, @evelyb30!!!!!!

 

That looks like it should have taken months to put all those items together....not days !!!
GOOD EYE !!!!
& WOW !!

 

That's wild....how did you not know those were there before ??
I guess....now you can go to church with a big smile on your face !!

 

They were supposed to be in the safe, especially the class rings. I never thought to check.

 

Hi Johnny,
Nice haul I lover your wine bottle. I had the same one for several years!!!!
greg

 

The caddy is cute...the candlesticks are sweet......
& though I know nothing about costume jewelry cept what I've learned here....the other day I saw a woman news anchor wearing something very similar , & I thought , that's a little much for the TV News hour......so now I'm thinking....it's stunning....and do not mess with it !!
I don't know for sure that this type of thing is making a come back.....but I would leave it alone....& expect a good profit ...if not now....then soon !!!!!

 

It's the current "thing". I think.... Those showy costume pieces keep turning up on television shows. Unless they're signed they're not worth a ton on the secondary market yet and probably never will be.

 

well, that may be , but this one is BLING to the MAX......& I wouldn;t take it apart.....
Just sayin.....
not everyone can afford a signed one...

 

Very nice finds everyone.

Went to a few sales today, last one was the estate sale.

Got a few NOS Vintage Sheets NIP. I think one sheet is marked MIJ, never saw that before most are made in USA which is good!
Didn't take any pics as yet.

Love not having to worry if they have broken bits like glass and shipping them when and if they sell is as easy as 1,2,3 into a large bubble mailer.

Otherwise the rest of the sales were a bust, but the weather was fantastic. Sun and warm. Now we wait on the rain. Boo

 

that is an amazing haul anund!

I don't know who made the candle sticks but they are very nice! you got a great haul too johnny

 

Here are some of my finds, some vintage Halloween tally cards, the last one is a fold out place card
4 Black Americana tally cards
Fenton Carnival glass - Orange tree pattern on top side, bearded berry on the other
Wedgwood lighter and cigarette holder, a bottle of Monsieur Houbigant After Shave lotion from 1967
some Christmas Ornaments
I think these are pin cushions

First nations mask
antler carved owl

and my best find are the 2 hot dog sticks! We had a bonfire last weekend and couldn't find our other sticks, so now we have 2