Featured Finds Thread

I sold one like that coffee pot many years ago on etsy.

 

One step up on "cowboy coffee". Put the green beans in your cast iron skillet. Roast them. Remove from fire and break up with your rifle butt. Add water to pan and put back on the fire until the water boils a while. Stir with barbed wire. Pour into a mug and drink. (I use ground coffee and a Melitta filter.)

 

After that cowboy coffee one needs a shot to ward off what one just consumed.
Tetanus

 

I use the bamboo filter...........like taking candy from a...........Panda !

 

No records of anyone getting sick from it; they must have boiled the germs to death.

 

So, funny story, my 16-yr old son saw the coffee pot and asked me, How much you want for that? I said $20. He said, how about $10? Sold!

Free money, finding stuff on the side of the road... plus, the way I figure it, he owes me. What, with all the food, and clothes, and shelter, and and....

He's the person I typically go camping with, so I'll end up using it anyway.

 

u shoulda held out for $15.......................

 

Why I will be less sad to miss some estate sales this weekend. I walked into my local Ill Will and found the giant kinda-sorta cocktail glass. Then...jackpot. Right now stretch glass vases are selling for real money, and the bigger the better. This is amber alas, so not as valuable, but it's 2 FEET tall. This is its sibling in blue: https://artcupcontainer.com/en/l-e-...uoise-swung-stretch-retro-mid-century-mod.htm Used my purple cane for scale. (Mom's purse is in the background.)

Then there are the two vases with pontil marks, one raspberry and one turquoise. No siggies. Vernon Kilns hand-painted platter. Not shown: a garden variety Polish pottery plate. Paid $26 including tax for the whole thing. The big vases sell for about $200 each. If not more.

 

The cocktail glass thing was made in Empoli. I’m boggled that those stretch vases sell for that much, I can’t give them away.

 

That is not stretch glass, it is a swung vase, this is stretch glass:
http://www.shetlarglass.com/stretchglass/SGopenpage.htm

Some results with swung vase:
https://www.google.com/search?q=swu...HSmfCygQ0pQJegQIBBAE&biw=1323&bih=854&dpr=2.2

 

A good day

Only one piece marked sterling
The 14K on the bracelet is almost impossible to see. Scrap of the bracelet will pay for all of it.
Can't find a name for the Tiffany forks. Patent 1847. Looks very close to 1847 Rogers 1848 Olive.

 

Olive was an unpatented design, but since you say the forks are marked patent 1847 could you post a picture of the back?

 

Lots of lovely coin silver it looks like.

 

Sure does. My eyes went right to the ginbari brooch of course, because I have a thing for Japanese enamels. Whoever sold those spoons for pennies...should be selling stuff to me too!

I had a hunch it was Empoli. No mold lines. I'm just good enough to go "hmmm" but not good enough to know precisely why. Stretch and swung glass went for pennies here too until recently. Then some decorator or set designer decided they look cool and...off to the races. I'll cheerfully sell those and the oversized Empoli snifters and glasses to any and all. I don't like 'em either!

Thanks. I only know these by their status of "currently selling for $illy money."

 

No marking on the brooch. I have to epoxy one side back to the frame.

Afternoon

 

I don't do chokers or belt buckles but $3 each
42 and 45 grams

I doubt I'll ever make out the mexico maker
Real claw of something on the buckle

 

Terry, what a haul!

Possible you saw this Ebay listing, similar signature to the belt buckle, but no ID as to maker in description.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/265914189887

Your buckle is much nicer in my opinion. Maybe post these pieces in jewelry, see if anyone has thoughts.

 

@terry5732 See this page about Tiffany production and flatware patterns. Note that they did not make patterns of their own during the time that your pieces appear to have originated. That's why we can't find a name in their listings, these were made by another company.

https://www.925-1000.com/patterns_Tiffany.html

 

There is a near identical Dean Brown buckle with claw listed too

 

Terry didn't do things by halves this trip. Yike.