Featured Finds Thread

so....more than Double Dutch !!!

 

No surprises there. They didn't make it up into CT, so instead of Dutch names no one can understand, we have Native ones no one can spell!

I'd have jumped on both of those too. The earrings may well be Czech. Czechs are the prime suspects when you see garnets, and the Austro-hungarians right behind them. I've never seen an earring jacket like that before either. The cameo is a classic Three Graces and I'm betting it's been around a while.

I'll have to get a good quick and dirty of some stuff I picked up for peanuts today at the last day of a synagogue sale. They pretty well threw it at me for $4 for the pile. I wasn't arguing, especially when I got out to my car and found a ring waiting for me on the pavement right in front of my trunk. I think it was there for a while, and ... odds are it's gold.

 

Some of the names in Washington state are a riot to listen to some people attempt them.

 

Between the NA names, and the French names, it gets pretty funny in Wisconsin too.

 

Most notable seems to be Puyallup.

 

Total outlay for the stuff in both shots, four bucks. The candlesticks are olive wood Sabbath candle holders, mostly ornamental. The menorah is cast brass and in need of a little TLC, but it's meant to hang on a wall and it's an oil one - both hard to find. The pin beads are Japanese glass.
The colored beads are RDR - random dyed rocks. The stick pin is probably sterling and gold. The earrings have sterling backs. The pin is sterling and agate, hand made. The bracelet is probably sterling and hobbyist made. The ring dead center isn't hallmarked, but odds are it's 14k. It's a parking lot rescue.

 

Without meaning to be a stick in the mud....any chance someone lost their ring....as opposed to it being from the sale ?

 

re: Cape May

I spent exactly one (very odd) weekend in Cape May, years & years ago (c.1980)

My husband's widowed father had invited my divorced mother to spend a week at a place he had rented in Cape May. He was a very... uh... shall we say, old-fashioned type.

He had got it in his head that he should marry my mother, to rescue her from the shame of divorce - and to have someone to clean his house, make his meals, do his laundry, etc, etc.

Mom really wanted a beach get-away, but she told my 3 sisters & me, "NO WAY am I going to be alone in that house with that man! One of you will have to be there with me at all times." (Believe me, I'm making no excuses here for my mother's behavior here, either!)

DH & I were "assigned" the final weekend of her visit.

All I remember of the place is:

1) a horrendously long Friday evening drive from DC...
2) exceeding long lines to get into restaurants...
and
3) Cape May DIAMONDS - I still have one in my jewelry box!

I'm sure that Cape May is a lovely place, but my memories of it are not!

 

Cape May is lovely, but you are right, quite crowded in the summertime, especially weekends. There are many great things to do besides shopping and dining.... I especially love the fall. We attended a Monarch butterfly tagging, when I was younger I would climb the lighthouse just to see the view and feel the wind in my hair. I play miniature golf with hubby, we watch the sunset on Sunset Beach and collect the Cape May diamonds there. My birthday is June 30, and the horseshoe crabs are all over the beach then.... I love to eat at the Lobster House, always go there for my birthday. I just like walking up and down the streets and looking at the older homes... There are many festivals (The Lima Bean Festival on Columbus Day Saturday is my favorite) and little shows... it is a serendipitous town.

 

Captain Mey in Dutch. Captain May in the Queen's English.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jacobsen_May

 

I've been hoping to run across a glass with a "lemon squeezer" base ... Finally, we (the glass and I) were in the right place (GW) at the right time ...

about 4½" (11.5cm) high


plus, it had three friends that wanted to join us

yes, they really are different heights - there is about ¼" (6 mm) difference between the shortest and tallest one. Oddly, very little wear on the bottom ... just some chips on two bases and teeny tiny bites on the others.

 

No way to be sure how it landed there, or how long it had been laying in that spot. I don't think it was part of the original sale inventory. In any case, the voice in the back of my head said "that's yours" ... so I guess it's mine now. I only get into trouble when I don't listen to that particular voice.

 

It's termed your 'little voice' and we ignore it at our peril.

 

i call it my wife lol

 

HA!
Same difference.
~
Maybe it was a mistake...but I don't work for Boeing because of my little voice.
In 1995 I pulled into the driveway and stopped right there looking at the building. My little voice literally screamed; GET OUT OF HERE! and I did.

 

That sounds like no mistake whatsoever.

 

No...
What irks me about it is many guys in my car club are retired Boeing and they have beautiful cars, hot rod and classics, homes, etc.
When you get a chance look up the sculpture in front of the Machinists union in Everett, WA.

 

That's some really neat stuff, Davey!