Featured Finds Thread

I'm trying to rival @bercrystal, I now have 5, though these are modern, I think.

 

I love you get paid to find these treasures. I know the rest of it is just hard work, but still, this is sweet!

 

That's a nice little haul!

 

Wow, I never heard of neodynum glass. Thanks, guys, you keep me learning.

 

I have a few pieces of neodymium glass right now made by Cambridge Glass. The pieces are lavender under day light and pale blue-gray under florescent light. These are some individual nuts in that color I just sold:

 

I have a few pieces of it set in jewelry. I bought a piece once sold as a blue stone, and then got it outside where it turned purple. It's been known to turn up in Israeli jewelry too, generally set in sterling.

 

neodymium glass.....Often called Alexandrite, Neodymium is the mineral added to the glass to make it change color.

 

A few new finds

 

Love that Old Ironsides pin, I have a few spikes from the USS Constitution, given to me from a friend of my dad’s in the early 1970s after he did some restoration work on her. Strange that I don’t find any history of restoration work done in the 70’s on the museum website.

 

maybe cuz too much stuff got lifted from the work !!! Heehehe!!

 

It was in dry dock for repairs April 1973 until April 1974.

 

Thank you, that’s definitely when I got them!

 

He had a large pail full and let me pick a bunch from it. Sharpie is for size reference.

 

framed history........u have the details written on the back.......RIGHT ?

 

There are other colour changing glass types as well as the blue/lilac neodymium based ones. I've one which goes reddish to green. Depends on which rare earth element is used in the mix.

 

Took a few days off work, cleaned my house, and indulged.

Here is the entire little horde

This ring I was most excited for. It’s a teeny weenie coral cameo set in unmarked 14k gold. Ring is sized 4.75.

This necklace I’ve looked at for a bit. I think it’s that Arts & Crafts? There is no clasp anywhere and it is very very long. No maker mark or anything telling us it’s composition but it is silver. The little stones on the sides are held in place differently than the larger ones. All the smaller grooves show signs of this one being gold dipped but its long since come off.

The white beads are glass. I feel the large bow looking links are a bit clumsy compared to the rest of it but I’ve admired the Wedding Cake beads someone posted on one of the forums and when I found a seller with a bunch of them I pounced.

 

I think your lng necklace is 1920s - typical flapper length.