Featured Finds Thread

Relatives rooting through is easy if they live in the same town, but if they live at the other end of the country it can be an expensive trip for slim or no pickings. If the relatives are old they may not have the energy and if young, no interest in old granny stuff.

Treasure trove house clearances are the exception, the holy grail that keeps the hopes up, most of the time it is modern household chattels and accumulations of junk.

 

Just catching up on all the goodies you gals and guys found. Very nice!

Love the Lucy shakers KOT

And I am so jealous of Davey finding all those treasures.

 

Spot on.

Not forgetting that with a parent's death and subsequent house clearance, personal items are important but maximising value of other items is not a priority. Closing off on the clearance is therapeutic and those who offer house clearance are welcome to the task and rewards

 

Wow....Sounds like Christmas lol.

 

Bill the silver guy was already in when I got there so I wouldn't be buying any sterling. I thought I might be able to 'restore' this EP on brass

A little dull yet. needs another go round with paste.

 

It appears that someone donated a bunch of old pottery to my favorite thrift recently ... may have to start some treads in P, G & P about some of them.

Transferware plates by George Phillips - "Park Scenery"


Pretty little 4½" tall creamer


teapot (Chinese export???) with peach shaped finial. I am kicking myself that I didn't purchase the other one with more pink decoration on it too - went back this morning and it was snapped up already (at $8 each, I really shouldn't be surprised)

Victorian era,(I think ... I hope ... not sure) Stafforshire pastille burner and pocket watch holder

and an interesting 6" tall jug/pitcher with applied lotus flower and leaves ...

 

quirkygirl, I really like the jug with the applied flower and leaves

 

Thank you Davey......I like your business model !!!!

 

If I were still spry enough .... good idea. I'm wondering what sort of gold mine those "as seen on TV" 50s gadgets will be.

 

New sink faucet design>
Calico Steer

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Davey, I love seeing everything you are finding. Do you have a booth in an antique mall to sell these items? I can't wait to see the vintage gadgets!

Terry, what brand brass cleaner to you use? That came up really nice.

I have given myself permission to NOT go outside the next few days due to 95 degree temps. I won Jimmy Buffet tickets for an outdoor beach concert in A. C., but no thanks... I can't fight the 80,000 plus people going to show up, and now they are giving away the tickets. Guess I am getting old.

I went to a local thrift shop last Tuesday, and I did find a huge back of jewelry marked "broken" for $24. A lot is easy fixes, but a lot was not broken.... some just needed cleaning and detangling.
Here is the sterling, little heart earring is GF, the necklace and pendant upper right are GF, too. The butterfly necklace is vermeil sterling:


This is a rondelle multi-gem necklace, the catch is sterling (a little bit broke off the hook, but it works, I don't think the other metal is sterling:

This Ralph Lauren necklace took me HOURS to untangle

And I never heard of Sioxante Neuf Jewels, I wanted the bag when I saw this in it. Took me an hour to untangle this. I had to untangle the necklaces from the other stuff then untangle each necklace. Still going through the bag, and I am going to work on fixing some of the costume pieces with the materials I have today and make a list of what I need to fix the rest.

 

I love the last pitcher!!!!

 

Ooooh Marko, Lots of pretty finds! What are those carved pieces on your last shown necklace? Shell? The colors look amazing. Tried to find out myself by Googling "Sioxante Neuf" ... Big mistake!

 

LOL, yes no comment on that.

Paua shell? If you google Soixante Neuf jewelry, their site comes up.... check out their retail prices!!!!

 

I don't buy much nowadays, but could not resist these little boxes when a runner called in with them. One is a miniature Georgian knive box with tortoiseshell veneer, some silver wire inlay (very dark at the moment) and less than 3 inches high.

The other is like a miniature roll top desk or at least the top of it and is a little larger in walnut. £50 the two.

 

Wow love those, Especially the Tortoiseshell one. I think that is a needle packet box or a thimble box.

Is there anything inside them?

 

Too large for a thimble box, I have had a few of those, and probably a needle packet box. Neither have any internal compartments, and I suspect the needle box once had some. But it is the dinky size and outside appearance I see.

At present all it contains is a small wad of money to pay the runner, since I bought it on tick. I should keep some cash in the house.

 

You got a bargain, They're lovely, The needle packet box would have been lined with velvet and would have had little Ivory separators, (sorry if I'm telling something you already know).

Maybe the other one might have held little perfume bottles?

 

I'm not the only person here so no harm in details. It is possible the other one was for perfume bottles, and I'd not really thought of that use