Featured Finds Thread

The Wallace dish is a great find! Fig, the Wedgewood piece has writing and some numbers on the back, and the bottom back of the frame is marked SILVER. I will check it out and get back to you guys, maybe you can tell me its age. The Boucher earrings have serial numbers, too, on the earring backs, not the clips, have to check the patent out. The turquoise is glass, the seed pearls faux, but the screwbacks are marked sterling, the filigree parts looks like chrome plated. Maybe somebody threw spare parts together. I do like them, will save the screwbacks, and convert them to pierced kidney wires to wear. The pair of garnet earrings on the left appear to be unmarked sterling vermeil- the guy tested the posts, you can see silver. The flower-shaped pair maybe gold-filled, rose quartz centers. I like the pair with the colored metal the best- don't know what that process is they do to the metal to make it multi-colored. The sapphire earrings appear to just be set in a base metal, maybe silverplated, clip-backs, strange. I guess the sea dragons are dolphins, old-style!

 

Thanks for the photo compliments! As for the photos, I am using the Samsung 4 smartphone. It automatically adjusts, no macro setting on it. The one pic of the first earrings was in an indoor shot, not the quality of the rest. I shoot on my porch in the shade, in the a.m. hours on a bright, sunny day, I don't use a photo set up.....just white paper plates.

 

Little sapphire chips are surprisingly cheap, so they may well be in base metal. Your coloured metal ones are heat tempered. The Wedgwood will have a date letter, but I suspect 1950s/60s from the look of it.

 

You DO take fantastic pics. Amazing what a smart phone can do.........oneday I plan on entering the 21st century and getting one.

 

Definitely Wedgwood. They made a lot of jewelry for a while; unlike a lot of pottery it sells pretty well. They even made at least one pair of shoes. Not too practical for certain, but worth a good bit if you find some in decent condition.

 

I don't understand my phone. I've looked and looked, but I can't locate the the viewfinder or the shutter release.

 

Hi Evelyb,
My Mom had a pair of shoes with Wedgwood heels. My favorite of hers were a pair of clear plastic heels that turned and were hollow. She put goldfish in them
I guess it was cruel but at the time I thought it was beautiful. Thanks for the memory jog.
greg

 

Hey...that's my phone too !!
Here's a better one.......more up to date.....

 

Greg - I've heard of goldfish platforms before; they were a Disco-era thing if memory serves. Not something I'd have wanted either.

Right now what I want is to find a sterling pendant that dropped out of my fingers, bounced twice on the rug, and vanished into thin air.

 

Hi Evelyb,
My Mom was long before disco. I am a disco nut. My Mom had these shoes back in the 1940s. You could tell she was not a country girl but one of those fancy gals from the city. I always wondered why she wound up with an outhouse and making do?

 

She liked your dad better than she liked asphalt?

 

She liked your dad better than asphalt? She heard Springsteen was going to live near you in the future and wanted to get there ahead of the crowds?

 

LOL at the phones! My husband gets my tech stuff for me our I would be using that red phone.

 

Well...it's a camera, and it's a phone...so....

 

How about Apple's new watch? You can only use it when you carry a phone that is compatible....what a joke. I saw that on this mornings' news and they said the cost can go up to 10,000.00.

 

$14,000.....for the gold cased one !

Maybe that's in Canadian $.....

 

Hi,
Here is were I stand on the idea.
greg

 

Most of you know I suck at purchasing or evaluating blue and white wares, but I think this time my $30 investment was well worth it.



Link: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/....aspx?intObjectID=4125251?intObjectID=4125251

(Same form, similar decoration, same mark and period....minus the stopper. Remember, that is a 12 year old price and not current market...which should be around double or triple the above realized price. I also picked-up a pair (not a true pair) of 10 in. 19th C. blue and white prunus vases for $60...will post a bit later.)

 

Well it's missing the top with the spoon.......but you're days of sucking at this may have come to an end...!