Featured Finds Thread

Tought the knife was refearing to the previous poste, ....in some way.... (lol!)

 

Is it a Bantou circumcision knife? It would go well with @kristiaan find, just above

 

Ha! You sniped me

 

But Serrated Wow. No way.. But still a little disturbing thought. Luckily I didn’t try and cut bread with it! Ha ha

 

I'm betting it cuts ... bread ... just fine. Any other use would have any male with a brain running for the hills!

 

Most definitely!

 

First piece of silver copper Mokume Gane for me found in a Charity shop for £1.99, brass enamelled Mothers Union and silver locket brooch 50p each, pearl earrings 70p.

 

Is there a maker's mark on the mokume piece?

 

No, no marks except International Bullion Brokers mark on chain with 925.

 

Lucky stiff. I've never found one of those anywhere. Went to two stores locally today and came home with what i left with, minus some gasoline. At least somebody scored.

 

Looks like a Match Holder.

 

I was out of the house at 5am to get to an estate sale starting at 8. I was 5th in line and no.1 was going to the toys too. Two toys struck my fancy, only got one. The one that got away was a large Dayton Hill Climber Train engine with Coal Car. But I'm happy with this Schoenhut Naval War Toy. A few missing parts to make and the and let the fun begin.

Also the Fab Three (cake toppers) and Old King Cole (1930s lead toy) having a jolly ole time.

A nice lantern slide of Edison that was gifted by a friend.

 

the Monitor and Merrimack ( or Virginia )...... nice toy...
likely made by Yankees..

 

A small thing which pleased me immensely. 1968 model and a whole twenty five pence. And the restaurant actually spins!

 

Neat -O !!!

 

In this case U-boat and Dreadnought.

 

Went to an estate sale this morning at Way Too Friggin' Early and in the "kept the engine running" cold. Wore a hat, my down coat, gloves and two pair of socks for a reason. Was it worth it? For once, YEP. Came home tired and chilly but happy.

For starters, I ended up with an emerald green glass Blenko water pitcher for $4. The fish is for my niece, hollow and hand signed. The squirrel is one of those Swedish glass ones; a friend is getting that. Oddly, it's signed Finland.

There was a true mourning brooch too, probably gold and onyx but not marked. I'm betting it had a micromosaic or cameo in the center, now long gone. Sterling and lapis earrings. Two pair Mikal Golan earrings and the brooch to match one of them. A JJ Christmas tree (MINE!). Napier sterling leaf pin. Two pair amber and sterling earrings. Catherine Popesco. The kicker was a box of "junk" in the garage. "Oh this is the stuff I threw out. You can have that (for pennies)." The Junk pile included a river of silver with onyx SIGNED sterling necklace in perfect shape, sterling snowflake earrings (probably Skinger), a knotted on cord pearl tin cup necklace, pearl and sterling flower earrings, sterling and crystal earrings and a "broken" ceramic and probably silver necklace I can fix in ten seconds. There's a magnatic clasp costume necklace too - took me 30 seconds to "fix", i.e. thread the chain back through the pendant.

On the way home, a charity thrift that's the sister to the one in West Hartford yielded probable gold ball earrings, a solid sterling necklace, and a Patent Pending Trifari necklace that I've IDed as 1950 Alfred Philippe. The three together were $17 with tax. Meanwhile they wanted $20 for a Florenza brooch with missing stones and $40 for a sterling ring. Go figure - that's those charity shops for you.

 

Fun score Evelyb!

By all means check that onyx brooch for gold content.

 

My guess is it's gold; the Victorians didn't always mark things.

 

Another possibility is that it had a memento compartment, although it looks a bit small. Think micromosaic more likely than cameo.