Featured Finds Thread

Oops, 14k findings piece

This is a circa 1980s Barbie-sized Fashion Doll Corvette, yard sale find, $2.25. Needs a clean up.

 

marko-At those prices even a jewelry rube like me could afford to gamble on some jewelry.For the stuff that turns out to be worth $10 or less-do you sell that on Ebay/Yard Sales ?

 

The retirement plan is to sell online and at shows- we have many here, plus flea markets. I have another year to get full pension, another year and a half to get full SS. I have had yard sales where I have made a lot more money than I paid for jewelry. Even modern jewelry sells, not my thing, but I pick it up.

 

My husband's aunt used to have a huge yard sale Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Saturday- unbelievable sales.

 

At those prices it's a 'slam dunk'.It says you're in S. Jersey-My buddy grew up in the area where they shot the Sopranos.We'd watch and he'd say 'Oh ya-that place has great pie' (pizza slice). Good old Joey,he had a very Italian last name.One thing abt moving North,I missed all the Italians in San Francisco,Sonoma & Napa counties.

 

I love San Fran. Been there three times....I'd open a shop there if I had a few mil.

 

An interesting thing... Most of the Italians in California are from northern Italy while most of the Italians on the East Coast immigrated from southern Italy.

Debora

 

I'm on a sort of death cleaning mission this summer. Organized the basement, need to do the pool room, then upstairs. I gave a lot of clothes to charity thrifts, but I took a trunk load to a shore town consignment shop. She wants my winter apparel NOW....I have a ton of vintage cashmere coats, some fur pieces, vintage this and that. Have to go through my purses, too. She said all the young women want retro/vintage. Anyway, she just got some jewelry in, all $5 a piece, and I still walked away with a $90 check from the last things sold over the winter.

Love this piece below.

 

Then walked to a thrift shop, spent $12.

 

Oops, from the consignment shop, old amber colored beads with black swirls, givre beads I think.

 

I think husband's dad is from Northern Italy- he had blonde hair and blue eyes. His mom was Irish, red hair, green eyes. My husband had auburn hair, and has his dad's blue eyes. Handsome devils.

 

Before I go back to death cleaning, I have to tell you about the Looney Tunes estate sale I went to yesterday. I didn't feel all that great, went back to bed, got there around 10 am. They had mostly newer costume jewelry ridiculously priced. I was told the first customer bought every vintage piece of jewelry. They were trying to pass off costume as sterling, but the most awful part was this: you know how they put tiny diamond chips in illusion settings in some costume jewelry, especially gold-plated? This lady PRIED OUT the diamond chips in the costume jewelry and was selling it sky high prices like that.

 

Marko- You live in Italiano Pickin' Heaven,a forest of consignment stores ! My Fam's Italian,Yugoslavian w/ a pinch of Irish.I asked My Grandma once why she was yelling at Grandpa,she said-'That's how We talk !'

 

Not really....South Jersey is spread out, still farmland and forests, not like Philly. I live 20 miles from A.C. I used to love estate sales here, but they are few and far between since Covid, and people start lining up at least 2 hours ahead of time. The lines are so long it takes a few hours to get in. Even yard sales are packed, people camping out before the sun comes up...it's hit or miss. We are a diverse area here....older immigrants were German, Italian, Irish, Polish, Russian, etc. My paternal grandfather was Hungarian, both grandmothers German, maternal grandfather Hawaiian. People came in through the ports of Philadelphia and migrated out. I have lobster burn skin, auburn hair, and my grandfather's dark Hawaiian eyes.

 

I think you found some goodies - and not those "genuine diamond chip" things. Nasty things. I don't have a drop of Italian ancestry, unless Roman soldiers from about 2000 years back count.(LOL) Irish either, darnitt; I even went looking!

Tag sales here aren't as cut throat...yet, but they're few and far between. Estate sales - let's say yesterday is one of the only times I've ever really yelled at another estate sale-goer. She all but knocked me off some stairs onto a concrete floor. I've met her before and let's just say she isn't known for her consideration of others. She'd fit right into those Jersey sales. I did get there over an hour early for that one, and was number 5. The estate runner probably put out numbers the night before.

Those two tone beads may be Kuba beads rather than givre.
https://imageevent.com/flippingtreasures/h2glassstonesandbeadsh2/h2specialeffectsh2 This is a useful page. I know the lady who runs it from eBay.

 

I didn't know Sandi had this page, thank you! I couldn't think of the name....I know we had the givre discussion a few times on the ebay boards, thanks again. Yes, it's a shame how cutthroat it has become. No need for anyone to get hurt, sorry that happened to you. My sharks at the flea market are even pretty well-mannered. I did buy a gold-plated necklace at Looney Tunes, but I didn't notice until I got home a stone was pried out. Ya gotta laugh.

 

...and you can replace it with something more fitting this way. There are some well-known sharks here. One here was complaining about the total lack of sales out there yesterday. She buys a lot of toys, and she went to the only other sale in the area right after I did. Told them someone would be after their giant box of Lego bits...she got it. I scored the big Mackenzie-Childs bowl first of course. It'll be resold locally. (it's a modern brand that's white hot for resale.)

 

I will Google that!

 

Wish I could hold a yard sale, instead of having to face up to the necessity of selling on line & having to pack & ship. But, despite all the sales, I can't seem to find a yard I can afford.

 

So Marko, we see you've been busy hauling it home!!!!