Featured Finds Thread

Lion? The face looks like a lion. The rest looks like the metal smith got into the hooch. (LOL)

 

With that mane, yes, I think lion. I love these.

 

Just catching up here. My aunt took us kids to the Worlds Fair. I don't remember much about it, but it was fun.

 

I remember the "It's a Small World" ride, that's about all.

 

The one at Disney I never even want to hear about ever again? My sympathies.

 

Damn you.

earworm.

 

Blame Disney. I had to ride that ride like six times in a row in junior high. If I EVER hear it again it'll be too soon.

 

Hit a few goodies last week. The Ohm'gosh pieces were unheralded in an antique store locally. The biggest vase is wood-fired pottery - Marked Catawba with a Sara Ayers mark. Whoops... It might not be horribly old and I didn't know who she was, alarm bells went off and I knew Komo would have nabbed it. $5. So was the little pin from the Chevy dealership. The original owner worked in the Service department and his daughter promised Dad to sell off his pin collection. I think one other was gold but she kept that one when I pointed out where it was from - a local dairy place. This one? 10k and diamonds - I tested those. Promised to find it a good home. I think she half knew it was gold.

The rest is from a mix of charity thrifts and church sales. Pearls, some sterling and that oh my fully anatomically correct ivory German Shepherd. There's some sterling in there and a pile of owls. The blue horsie figurines don't have a mark to bless themselves with, but the owl ceramic is Peterborough Pottery. Still kicking myself for leaving a really nice ceramic goose behind. The owl vase is Kosta Boda and the other glass vase almost has to be Waterford. No siggie.

 

Just in case, the pink peals are an eyeglass holder, the turquoise ceramic horse isn't signed, and the sterling butterfly is Beau if memory serves. There's a nice sterling Silpada necklace too.

 

I love the blue horses - my parents had the exact same set in turquoise which they bought in Singapore in the mid 1960s. I wish I had them now but have no idea what happened to them.

I bought a bag of mixed junk jewellery for £5 in a charity shop recently and these two pieces were amongst the mostly plastic tat. Pretty little coral bead necklace - for someone with a very small neck (child?) and a nice little sparkly Art Deco (or AD style?) brooch.

 

Thanks. The corals could be for an adult female if old enough, but they made them for children too in the 19th century. They've been restrung at least once, so it's hard to be sure just from the hardware.

 

I was gifted this lovely piece by someone who was downsizing; they had a lot of things they were getting rid of, but this one I couldn’t resist. From The Merrill Shops, I believe, so pre- 1930 something. I love it and have no interest in selling, but I’m interested in what the experts think about its age.

 

when u downsize....... gimme a call.....& u can gift it to me !!

very sweet !

 

All from the 1700s, less than a fiver for all seven from the Charity shop. I know they aren’t that popular now but couldn’t leave them.

 

They’re popular with me! I couldn’t have left them either.

 

I’m a sucker for those, if they’re old ones of London.

 

Out of interest- what makes you think that they have been restrung?

 

maybe for the knotted beads only being there on the 1st 3 beads on each side of the clasp.......and then....gone.!

 

If they're old, they wouldn't still be strung if they hadn't been restrung. Cotton dies at a dirty look once it gets past a certain age. And, as Komo points out, the stringing they have now isn't old. The knots on three beads thing looks like someone got lazy. They also have a spring ring, which might date them to the 1890s or later. If they're on nylon, they were strung post-WWII.

 

Thanks for your replies.
The string on my beads is a darkish pinky colour and I would think it is cotton or linen.
I had wondered why only the first three beads were knotted and this prompted me to have a bit of a search online. I found quite a few similar coral (and other) necklaces which were also strung in this way. I also had a look through my own collection of vintage necklaces and several of them are also just knotted between the first three beads so it must have been a fairly common way of stringing.