Featured Finds Thread

Me too popsycat!

 

me 3........& I just got off the phone with my cousin who's 65......and we were remembering our time together in the early 80's............. ho boy !!!!!

 

I am 65 going on 66, and still working for a living. My little home office is set with 4 monitors so I am ready to be productive.

 

HAHA.....I don't suppose you'll be testing it!!!!!!!!?

 

Wondering what effect covering or lining those N-95 masks with something like the "rip-stop" nylon??? It's pretty 'dense' yet breathable, and should be a secondary layer of protection?? But I know nothing else about it....

 

Found this a few years ago at Garage sale. Paid £2. Italian Coppola e Toppo crystal and faux pearl necklace.

 

Micro mosaic brooch, think these were originally buttons.

 

Sweeeeet!

 

Walther PPK 8mm pistol, 7 live rounds in the mag and no safety on

Made in West Germany so at least 30 years old. and possibly 70 years old.

The safety does not work.


are you sure it's not an alarm or gas pistol ?
anyways, watch out - contrary to the 7.65 that is more reliable - these here are often jamming.

 

Another week of pickings:
Two gold fill cameos brooches, small twiggy screwback coral earrings, black double leaf david andersen brooch, sterling Plique a jour pendant, David Andersen enamel and rock crystal pendant, sterling & enamel triple band ring, coral grape bunch screwback earrings, sterling double faux pearl ring, several cameo rings, Denmark sterling & enamel necklace and coral rose pin in original box.

Some close ups of my favorites.
A 10k ring with small blue stones. Older style setting. No marks.

Uni David Andersen pendant, “Trollspeil”

10k gold cameo ring. I think the center is glass.

Brooch is marked 800 on the back. I am a bit confused about the off color on the piece overall but maybe it had a gold coating that came off with age?

Sterling fish set. I think the handles may be ivory. Haven’t dated this one yet.

 

That's a fruit set rather than fish - could be ivory, but suspect it may be celluloid (Xylonite, or sometimes Parkesine) in old British catalogs)...

~Cheryl

 

Good to know! How can we tell the difference?

 

Close-ups would help in the material as well as reading the marks (both materials would have been used for decades) would have been used for, and you have them in hand - but they look pretty uniform in color, size and shape, making me think celluloid...

~Cheryl

 

Ah, my apologies I meant if they are for fruit vs fish.

 

Sorry if you meant the difference between fruit and fish set, the slender blades and small working ends of the forks indicate a fruit set...

~Cheryl

 

looks like fruit or dessert to me. but there are certain differences between countries.

 

True, they may have been offered as a dessert set as well, though they often had slender blunt-end blades, but it wouldn't be for fish...

~Cheryl

 

Thank you!

 

Picked this NCR model 313 up today. 1909

 

Had to check up on what I'd missed!!