Featured Finds Thread

Lots of areas do match up, I'm rooting for you Lloyd

 

thanks cx , at the least from contacting the picasso's ,i now know it's not stolen or on any missing list lol

 

Mini suitcase, at a mini price! ;-)

 

CUTE AND Very COOL!!!!!

 

Found something I'd never seen before, but makes perfect sense in a large hotel with lots of laundry.....in the earlier days!!!! Also thought it was very neat!!! A MANY-IRONED Pot bellied stove!!! Block Island Historical Museum.....they change their stuff around, hence my not seeing it before!

FUN-Post!!

 

Very ingenious!

 

Think I scored today at the rummage for less than $2. Tristam Ellis watercolour of Balaclava 1898? Frame is filthy but painting looks okay.
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if this was a csi case and this was a fingerprint in a crime it would be solved lol this is the exact same brush that did this/these and i can see lots more points to circle .

 

from the look of the handle , lock and wear , it must have held something heavy...industrial even.....
by itself though...it's so cute !!!
Did LV , make items for industry ??

 

vintage multi meter case , i use to have one not a lv tho

 

I went to a veterans' group tag sale this morning, took a wrong turn and wasted time getting there. Spent $3 after most of what I would have bought was already walking out the door. On the upside, a church sale that hadn't advertised was right up the street. $7.50 later.... and yes, these are all gold. Priced per card, not per pair.

Other folks wandered by a little stack of three dishes. I took one look at the back and put them in my tote. Longwy.

 

They did all sorts of things!
I still have my late father’s 1950s hunting dagger/knife “à la d’Estaing” in leather sheath, both marked L.VUITTON

 

those earrings are all gold ??????? WTF ???

the other day I praised a woman for being a volunteer ....... but someone at that Church...was asleep at the switch !!!

 

i love church sales ,nobody gives a heck about the stuff , just the total.

 

This was great for you but seems to me almost criminal on the part of the church, if people donated these things to them with the idea that they would make much more, to have their fine jewellery treated as costume.

 

Earrings are very often missed.

When I see them I run my finger nail along the post, if I feel something I take a chance. Along the post is very often where they are marked, the marks can be TINY and my poor eyes can't see anything without a loupe. I never pull out a loupe at a sale, I wait until I am in the car going over my goodies

 

Wise words, all. Of course, some earrings have 14K posts for allergy reasons but rest of earring is not of equal quality.

 

If the stuff is going cheap enough, and a buck a card qualifies, I generally just eyeball it and run. The biggest pair is 10K and the 14k hoops are JUNK, or would be if they weren't gold. The marks were bitty and the earrings aren't a lot bigger.

This looks pretty much like the one I'm still using! They keep right on working.

God bless 'em! (LOL) In more ways than one! Earring get missed early and often; it's tough to read the marks or even realize there are any. The earrings themselves are mostly small and light. The weight was the giveaway; costume earrings use a lot more metal.

 

This is a criterion I use a lot in assessing cameo pieces. BTW, like those olivine studs.