Featured Finds Thread

great finds stracci your excellent polishing really brings the sterling back to life

 

Thanks! They turned out great. My polishing wheel in the garage works for jewelry and sugar bowls!

 

HA! After DH accidentally sent a Ster. Sil. picture frame flying across the garage using a buffing wheel, he gets nary another chance....sunshine cloths or polishing cream for him.....they couldn't get the dents out of the frame!!!

 

Found this little guy today. Paid $5. Robert Deurloo. How the heck it was still there I haven't a clue.

http://rdeurloo.com/project/baby-hippo-bronze-sculpture-miss-bliss/

 

OMG, yes this can happen!
I now employ a death grip on anything I am polishing. I have flung half polished rings all over the garage in the past!

 

Wow, so cute and so pricey! Nice find!

 

thought this quite a neat charity shop find

its a painting of a tiny railroad stop near me that closed in 1965

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_Halt_railway_station

its by a local artist called john dyke who painted advertising posters for local landmarks

you can still buys his prints

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/958..._search_query=lundy&ref=sr_gallery-1-19&frs=1

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/972...a_search_query=lundy&ref=sr_gallery-1-6&frs=1

dont know if mine is an oil, or maybe acrylic ?

its got that same advertising look to it i think

 

painted 3 years before in 1962 before it closed

 

VERY COOL, Charlie!!!!! From your images, that looks more watercolor, to ME, but I'm FAR from an expert on this!!! Can you "feel" any texture on it or is it a print??

 

Looks like gouache.

 

I went to a church-antique-craft show yesterday. More about that later. Below are some thrift shop finds, it was too rainy for the flea market yesterday.
Rice pearls, $5.

These pink freshwater pearls were on the dollar table. The strands fall beautifully when worn, a keeper.

Carnelian beads with 14k GF clasp, $6


Renoir copper earrings, $6

Little sterling cz tulip, $4

 

Hi aqui, yeah it's definitely a painting, but not alot of texture

I think gouache is a good shout, thanks brad

 

Religious items, St. Anne appears to be gold-plated, the marcasite piece is sterling, missing a marcasite, 50 cents each

The woman who tells thrifts to sell to dealers got to one of my favorite thrifts....all modern junk now, but I did get this for $3. Marked Cameo, if grumpy cat was furry....I couldn't stop laughing.

Another thrift shop raised their prices and almost all earrings start at $5 now.


Above, just a stone set in base metal, $3.

 

Now to the church sale story. I got up late and wasn't even going to go, but hubby is watching The Masters, so out I went. Hardly any jewelry.. .it was after 10 a.m. when I got there, and one woman was still tagging items. She had jewelry out, a few pieces, and I asked her if she had any more. She said yes, she wouldn't take it out, so I moved on. I got this sterling piece, citrine, for $15, needs a clasp.
Then I found a young woman who I had seen at another local show. She usually sells costume and sterling, but she had a case of fine jewelry. She said it was her mother's and grandmother's. A dealer got there a few minutes before me...she said she is out of the business, but buys for herself. It looked like she had some ivory pieces in gold, and a 14k Asian style dragon pendant with nephrite jade and coral, not my style. She paid $450 for that, and her total was over $1,000, not things I would have purchased, no loss. I got this ivory ring for $5.
Missing some of the 14k threads, no biggies to me. I didn't see anything I liked until I spied these. The woman said they were garnets, I knew they weren't, but wasn't sure what the stones were. 18k, Italy, black hematite, yeah, I spent money $175, she wouldn't budge on the price, but I absolutely love them.



Any guesses on age on these earrings?

 

very nice......luv the memories,,!!

 

Those black earrings look exactly like a pair my mom got from her grandmother . I think she said they were from the 30s,but dont quote me on that.

 

I did Google when leverbacks were first made, and I was surprised to learn the 1880s. Mourning jewelry, perhaps?

 

This was a whole fifty pence.

Late 18th/early 19th Bilston enamel bodkin holder.

 

Envious.

 

It was in the bottom of a box of three for a quid stuff. I love those!

If perfect, it would be easily three figures, but it's still a nice thing.