Featured Finds Thread

The blue pottery is Brush-McCoy, Onyx. Circa 1930.

 

Thank you so much, Brad!! I really appreciate the depth of your knowledge. Very cool to know it's from the 30s and to know the line so I can read more about it.

 

We were invited as a family to one of our then kids friends quinceanera (it keeps auto correcting) a very lavish black tie affair, and she wore a custom made tiara. Other than when I was a kid my grandfather had a millinery store & did custom bridal veils & hats I had not seen something so over the top, including pageants like hers.

 

I even have a piece of the Onyx pattern. It's pretty stuff. The purse, btw, looks close enough for film work. Just don't show the whodunnit on camera.

 

Went to one of my regular stops this morning. Found some earrings just marked Germany that almost have to be gold - no one hollows out brass. Unremarked, a little iridescent butterfly sat on a pile of junk on the floor. Not priced yet. ...Oops.Baccarat, and signed twice. what did they want? $1 .... OKFine.(LOL) This was the cheapest retail I saw on a quick check - $200 on Amazon for the same one.

https://www.amazon.com/Baccarat-Clear-Iridescent-Butterfly-2601482/dp/B002ILA2GG

 

For early 60s you'd have to take the strap off. It was actually treated as an innovation when 'shoulder bags' became a new - & welcome - fashion. Handbags I remember my mother having late 50s-early 60s had a strap handle & were carried over the wrist.

 

The inside definitely gives the game away! Most of the time they're for the background actors, and that's what I would intend it for. A hero actor piece we would spend the cash to get the real deal. Costumes sometimes provides those... Sometimes it's us. Lots of crossover on certain things. Anyway thanks for confirming I'm not completely off.

I was worried about the crossbody strap too! I thought most were the bitty wrist-to-elbow kind. But then I found one with this same double-strap style in a 1968 ad and had hope...



I think the clip style gives the game away if it was close up, but as we know from cameos in period productions...close enough is usually deemed fine lol. I try to be a bit more authentic for hero pieces though! I'd go authentic for everything but there could potientially be a large number needed at not a huge budget so needs-must. I'm looking at late 60s to 1970, but if I see early 60s I'd pick it up too since older characters could have "older" bags.

Also I'm just creating a vintage and antique purse horde...for props. Probably.

 

Had one of the Bacarat butterflies once. One of the few things ever stolen from my retail space. They left me the box

 

Thieves. I don't use the correct descriptors in public. Bargain hounds are one thing, since I AM one, but five-finger bargains? Nope.

 

Wowzer!

 

Awful. I had two dealers accuse me of stealing. That's not who I am. I was buying a $300 pair of earrings from a dealer at a show and a dealer came up and accused me of stealing a $5 bracelet. I opened my purse for her to look, she said it could be in my jeans pocket. I walked her back to the booth to look for it, another woman had it in her hands. Not even an apology. At an outdoor show when I was buying jewelry, a dealer's friend walked up and accused me of stealing a cameo brooch. I walked back to talk to the dealer. Another woman, who was still there who had a purse, a backpack, a tote bag, and cargo shorts told me when we were looking how much she loved cameos. I told the dealer I didn't take anything, and I told her to ask the other woman. Her response? "She's still here, she couldn't have taken it. You walked away." My response? "Maybe she still has room for more."

 

On pleasanter news, I was sorting the wheat from the chaff in my jewelry today and found this amber necklace.

 

I went to an estate sale in a retirement village an hour after the locusts were there. I found this in the shed for $1. Couple small chips on the bottom, but I love it.


Just for fun on the blue pool table.

 

Pretty paperweight.

 

That’s Victorian that is.

 

Mine is a vase.

 

What is?

 

The vase!

 

Thank you. I don't know anything about glass. The people running the estate sale said they sold all the Murano glass immediately. I googled, and it looked like controlled bubble? glass.

 

It’s sort of controlled bubble but not as regular as some pieces. Can you get some more photos, especially the base, and pop them on the PGP board?