Featured Finds Thread

Is that what that was?
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About what?

 

Follow up to some things previously posted and some new.
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If any of the photos are rotated...throw rotten tomatoes at the site.
Not my fault.
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1) The worse offense on the tin is above the monument. I've given it a cursory cleaning...may try more.
2) I love the scarf.
3) I love these books, especially the cover embossing!
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GOOF GRIEF MABLE!!!!

 

Please use the FULL IMAGE icon to enlarge your photo's......

or is that too redundant ........
Heehehehehe!!!!!!!

 

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AH!
It posted incomplete when I whacked the keyboard as I realized the (*&^%^&*&%&%$%^&*! system was going to mess the photos up!

 

they are larger now.
Thank you for your compliance !

 

I rotate any needing it on my computer so this shouldn't happen but think I have to just stop using my camera vertically for photos here and just have a weird horizontal photo because I'm not going to crop them all.
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Forgot this great book from '61. I've not cleaned or repaired it as yet.
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TURN ABOUT is NOT fair play.

 

I knew it. Milt likes girls!(LOL)

I went to a local charity thrift today and bought a baggie of souvenir spoons for $10. Why? First, I found almost enough silver scrap to pay for the bag. (Italian souvenir spoons and a broken one of unknown origin) Second ... DM Fitch, active in New York circa 1840-1850. I think this is small enough to have been coin silver made from a single coin. Better yet, it's a miniature ladle rather than a standard spoon. It's headed for Ebay soon. Third, a USS Maine commemorative spoon. It's worn silverplated brass, but Spanish-American war homefront souvenirs don't show up too often.

 

HA!!!!
Shame on me!

 

it's a miniature ladle rather than a standard spoon

Evelyb, if you're going to sell it, be sure to call it a mustard ladle. I have a bunch of these myself, and for some reason, they seem to sell better when you mention "mustard" rather than "tiny" or "miniature"...

Of course, the fact that mustard reacts badly with silver makes the ladle's use with it impractical... It has always stymied me. Why would you stick your silver in something that will almost immediately discolor it?

Either way, silver mustard ladles always seem to sell well.

 

Mustard doesn't immediately discolour silver. I've ladles that were used by Ma, and as long as you rinsed them not too long after use, they were fine. I am, of course, talking properly made from scratch English mustard which has no vinegar in it.

 

had no idea that mustard would ever have omitted vinegar. More recipes to read.

 

Only fair...
Vinegar doesn't even allow mustard to parties.

 

Mustard spoon? Mustard spoon. Hopefully the bidders will put some mustard on it when they bid!

 

The thrift store mostly only puts out made in china crap

Lots of the chintzy steel souvenir spoons today

Hey, that one looks different

I guess it's got some age

 

properly made from scratch English mustard which has no vinegar in it

Owned, that must make ALL the difference!

 

I went through my bag and found enough real ones to pay for the baggie. The good stuff is gravy. I found this thing a week ago. It looks like an arrowhead, but I'm not sure if it's actually old or just a repro. It was found in a very modern wooden base thingie.

 

That's the tip of a spear....cast or likely hand made..I can't tell by the pic.....buuuut...this may have some good age to it.

 

I think the USS Maine spoons are not all that rare. I've one, possibly two.