Featured Finds Thread

yup, well, just remember...
between asking price and selling price.......is a chasm of hope & despair..!

 

verybrad- Great Thrift store finds ! That's one sad thing about greater Portland,Oregon-Goodwill almost has a stranglehold on the thrift market around here.There's a few smaller ones that don't run each and every nick-knack past the Chief Curator at The Smithsonian like Goodwill does,but I imagine certain areas of the country have less professional Pickers and Shops than Seattle,Portland,SF,LA,NY,Chicago,least I hope so... a guy can dream !
Always loved Russell Wright,design inspiration guru.Kids,the 'Old Days'-first Dirk Van Erp $10 at a Bay Area junk store, first G. Stickley Billiard Chair $50,somebody's front porch Healdsburg,CA....what a time it was (along with 40-70K houses). Ferlinghetti calls the past-'Pictures of the Gone World-the Coney Island of the Mind. It's all still waiting for us friends,in place we call... 'The Twilight Zone'.
Maybe in the next life I'll go junkin' with Rod Serling.

 

Komokwa-'A Place between Darkness and Light,in a chasm of hope and despair-a place we call The Twilight Zone !
-or Dead Picker Canyon.

 

maybe I should legally change my name to 'Ruby Lane,Antique Detective,No Item Unfound- Discretion Guaranteed-Dial 422-1st DIBS'

 

How big is it?

 

I actually made an Ursula costume once upon a time, for an “under the sea” themed parade float. I mounted the tentacles on a hoop skirt so they would move around somewhat independently. It was a big hit.

 

I couldn’t have resisted them either!

 

About two feet long.

 

I wonder if someone took an old curtain rod and repurposed it.

 

Could be. The rod itself is nice mahogany.

 

Looks like a Edwardian Pekapooh Training Rod,prob made by Dewey,Cheatem,Howe.

 

Upon closer examination, the wire looks a lot like coated hanger wire that’s losing it’s coating.

Perhaps someone made it as a tool to allow pulling back curtains, or pulling a cord, for someone who was short and/or didn’t want to (or couldn’t) get up easily.

 

A Lawrence Ferlinghetti reference from a guy in Portland, Oregon? What are you, my twin?

I met Ferlinghetti at City Lights once. His office was behind a wall that displayed some of his books. While I was looking at them, he walked out. Later I realized that the poet had physically materialized from behind his books. Kinda cool!

 

Awesome-we lived abt 50 minutes from San Francisco most of our lives.I met Ferlinghetti at a gallery opening in Santa Rosa once,my favorite old Art professor introduced us.At first I thought he was the great Potter/Sculptor Robert Arneson (white beard,grizzled). Ferlinghetti & Maury (my teach) got a huge kick out of that-we all laughed ! Sweet,humble very approachable Genius-i could've drilled him for hours,days.He was the Den Mother of ALL The Beats at City Lights Books (right next to Kerouac Alley). Treasured moments PotPlease !

 

Nice! My dad first gave me a copy of 'Coney Island of the Mind' when I was 13 or 14. It was a revelation. I have a few old City Lights / New Directions first editions and ephemera. It was a scene, for sure.

 

Yep a scene ! My folk used to take us down to SF in the '50's,saw some Beatniks.Later in '66 in used to go down and hang w/ the 'Hippies'. First concert/dance was at The Fillmore Auditorium '67-saw The Byrds, Moby Grape, Blue Cheer, Andrew Staples & The Santana Blues Band,it was a Sunday Matinee.

 

A few finds of late.I needed another vase like a hole in the head ( apparently i have a thing for chairs,glass and art) but it was too pretty to not buy.
13 inches high,signed Joe Deandra.




2 Christofle salt cellars.Thought they were sterling,but alas,plated. However Christolfe seems to sell very well.The marks are so hard to read,even with magnification.It took forever to capture them.I still cant make out whats above the name.

 

I am not a glass person, but I would have grabbed that vase!

 

I was on the way to the bathroom cause I had to pee,saw it,and ran straight to it ! So since I didnt dare set it back down,and I certainly couldnt take it to the bathroom,I went ahead and scoured the store.By the time I paid I think I was almost ready to burst ! But hey,I have priorities!

 

never set the jewel down !