Featured Finds Thread

Nice pile, and a serious score on the cloisonne!

 

Thanks. She had a few things I regretted not buying...sigh.

 

I found the bloke selling the Georgian pendant.

Oops.

 

Some of yesterday....I want to photograph some of the sterling separately. Two amber chip strands, three leopard jasper strands, and an unidentified stone necklace with a sterling clasp. I love leopard jasper and bought all three strands she had. Bottom piece was $3, another seller. The other strands were $5 a piece.

 

This set features freshwater pearls and lapis, FW strand, unidentified dyed green stones with FW pearls, the green stones again, two FW pearl bracelets, $3 for the pair, AB crystal bracelet 50 cents, some gold-plated dragons in a case, 50 cents, faux pearl lariat strand $1.

 

Here we have rose quartz with a cloissone hummingbird (forgot to pick up the same thing in onyx), MOP, stone, and cloisonne, my $1 blue cloisonne strand, Goldstone strand then garnet strand, yard sale, $2 each for those.

 

Costume....25 cents to $5. Bottom left Krementz gold overlay charm bracelet, $5, bottom right, black MOP locket, $5. In the center are a pair of gold-plated coin earrings, coins from India and Mexico, $2.50. Snowflake earrings and pendant on card sterling.

 

Might want to check over the dragons. Sometimes there's no telling what an Asian smith will do for the Asian market. They might not be plated.

 

Is Calvin related to the Hunt family on Vancouver Island (Henry Hunt and family)?

 

My favourite stone.

 

Calvin Hunt RCA (born 1956, Kwakiutl) is a Canadian First Nations artist from Fort Rupert, British Columbia. The Kwakiutl are part of the larger nation Kwakwaka'wakw.

He is a descendant of the renowned Tlingit ethnologist George Hunt. He was apprenticed as a teenager to his second cousin Tony Hunt, an artist and carver.

He is a woodcarver and owns his own gallery. He was made a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.[1]

 

Yes, a family of excellent artists and woodcarvers, for many generations. You can hardly go wrong choosing a carving or print by any of them.

 

Thanks, it looks like he is related to the Hunt family on Vancouver Island. Lots of history there with Thunderbird Park at the RBC provincial museum.

 

I golfed with Richard once.......& asked him about a frontlet...
timing was off......but many years later.....I finally found one of his !!!

Sold it years later............ cuz that's what I do !!!

 

My spouse found a fun box of ornaments from a church yard sale for $7, several of which will be on the tree!

I have questions on a couple of them, and attached individual phots. The first is a large "double bulb?" that looks a lot like ones the Radko repopped. It is 3 3/4" top to bottom and a bit under 2.5" wide. Any thoughts on it, is it a common ornament?

The other is the 2 large white ornaments, and I would appreciate thoughts on if they may be vintage or more modern? They are 3 1/4" top to bottom, 3" wide, 2 1/4" front to back.

 

@Bakersgma
@cxgirl

 

I'm pretty sure my family's tree sported a few of those "double bulbs" as early as the 50s. Those others I've never seen, but they look much newer than the other.

 

I am new on this board and did not want to overload it with pictures, not sure what the norm is here. But if interested I can put up pictures on individual boxes. Thanks.

 

Hello @UpAllnight & welcome to the forum!!

Are any of the metal caps marked?

I agree with bakersgram that the style is the 1950s.

The 4 pink ones definitely look like the newest of the bunch with that gold-colored caps.

We have several members that are very much into vintage Christmas decorations. There are at least a couple of threads where people show their Christmas decorations.