Featured Finds Thread

Aaron, yup, from Mexico, missing the stands

https://www.madeinmexico.co.nz/shop/product/272331/Mexican-Glass-Mask-Amber/

 

great score on the Moorcroft piece bakers, it is the 'leaf and berry' pattern

 

Thanks CX! Sooooo many of these online misattributed to kosta... oh well - mine won't be!

 

Thank you, CX!!

 

I know, people see one wrongly listed and just copy them I guess. I have mine out in the garden

 

you are very welcome bakers I love Moorcroft, I've never seen a piece at a yard sale, maybe one day!

 

A little collection from today-
Some jewellery, more silver chains etc I’ll sort later.
A plaster bust of Edward viii with an illegible signature.
A Chinese emperor, don’t know if it’s bone or the unmentionable.
A gorgeous carved duck.
Bakelite candlesticks, cute glass birds in a tree and a nice wooden box!
Love any input on any of these!

 

@KSW I like those candlesticks! Not tortoise shell?

 

I love the candle sticks, gorgeous.

If the unmentionable is the 'i' word, you're safe. It looks like resin to me, and could have started life as a chess piece. The duck could be resin as well. Nice quality though, and some value as well.

 

Yes, the ‘i’ word! I’ll have a good look when I get home but hopefully no Nellie tusk!

 

They are rather lovely aren’t they!
I don’t know! I just assumed Bakelite- I’ll look properly when I get home but I rather hope not tortoiseshell :-(

 

@KSW

I really like the Edward bust. Being American and in a relatively baby nation we lack the history our “longer in the tooth” cousins have. Such a fascinating time in history for Great Britain when he abdicated. I wonder when it was made?

 

As I always say, potters ain't botanists.

 

More for the Hoard.

Hey @Any Jewelry how do you like this? I need to find someone who can CAREFULLY solder me a ring on, but it was under twenty dollars.

 

OMG! Now I have to have one!!!! Excellent!!!

 

It's making me very, very greedy. Amazing find for such a price, ticks a lot of boxes.

 

Have you seen the movie The King's Speech? It is about that period, but about his brother who had to succeed him as George VI, and about the family dynamics. And about a novel speech therapy. Brilliant movie.

 

The orange stone is stunning!

 

WOOH! I love that!

 

Just one find today.
Found a vintage Pyrex 6 cup Tea Pot (glass) in the box. No photos yet.
It is so heavy so what was I thinking. I think the Woolworth shopping bag I found at sale to carry it around in was even more vintage than the tea pot.