Featured Finds Thread

This was a church thrift store. The rummage at another church is tomorrow morning. I'd almost not go but... nahhhh.(LOL) Gotta get my sleep deprivation somehow!

 

Got my rummage sale, but struck the literal gold in antique store afterward. It's right up the street. Spent $25 in the antiques place on jewelry bits ... and some of the bits of no particular design were 10k. No gold at the rummage, but did get a little silver. No quilt fabric either. Just as well.

 

@evelyb30 it tests as a sapphire!

 

Bingo! Natural purple sapphire = $$$$. I don't know about synthetics or lab stones.

 

Probably you know more than I do!. Thankyou for nudging me to check it wasn’t Amethyst.

 

https://www.thenaturalsapphirecompa...for-buying-the-perfect-purple-engagement-ring

 

Cool little crock from a late 19th century bakery (found it listed in an 1893 MA business directory) in New Bedford MA. Paid a whole $1.75.
Seems like it might hold about 1 qt - any ideas what might have been packed in here, being that it's from a bakery? Sugar? Salt? Honey?

 

That is so cool aaron. I am going to venture a guess.. perhaps honey or jam, or jelly or preserves???
I hope someone can tell you the right answer.

 

Mass.......beans?

 

I thought maybe beans too - till I found the name and address to be that of a baker. Unless... BAKED BEANS.

 

Obviously...Boston Baked Beans.....
being a baker that could also have sold many other treats in their store....
dip that bread in the beans...... yum !

 

Bakers used to do "low and slow" for folks who didn't/couldn't cook on Sunday. You'd put your bean pot in the bake oven and leave it there until Sunday evening. The baker wasn't working either. In this case maybe he owned the pot too, so you'd have to keep paying to use his oven?

 

The closest in form I've found are these necco candy "boston baked beans" miniature pots.

https://www.crockerfarm.com/stonewa.../lot-145/Lot-of-Nine-Boston-Baked-Beans-Pots/

 

@evelyb30, are Coach purses worth anything?? I've had one hanging in a closet for nigh onto 25 years!!! Lightish brown leather...long leather strap....purse is 9 or 10 inches wide, 8 or 9 inches deep?

 

I don't think it's Mar.........and then I too am not sure what, but not Mary ....

 

Nancy?

 

2nd letter doesn't look like any of the other ' a's '

 

Aqui, show some photos! Please include one of the "patch" inside! (I did work for Coach for several years...)

 

It is most likely lab grown. Lab corundum has been on the market for 100+ years. Crystals grown now are huge. Worth more than glass; far less than a mined stone.

I got interested in color change sapphires, the ones you see being sold as alexandrite, & did some Internet research on the history. Found most people selling jewellery now do not recognize them for what they are. One person I found at a vintage jewellery show who did know one when he saw it said at his company they had been popping them out of their settings for the meltdown value of the gold & throwing the stones away, until he decided they were pretty & started keeping a pile on his desk. Most people regard them a little more highly.