Featured Finds Thread

found a troll..... for the garden ...

 

Cool finds! Wonder what the centenary is for on the Swiss Army knife?

 

Love the troll. All my finds for the weekend are an old Perry Pictures Boston edition The Witch house Salem,
A Mid century Hedco Milkglass lamp, Fostoria American Dinner plates, and a rare marmalade jar with lid.

 

"1897: Karl Elsener legally registers his “soldiers’ knife” for use by the Swiss army."

 

i flipped it inside out ,i think it might be mink .

 

That Mercedes Benz compact is so cool. I have been behind in my photographs..... not sleepy, so let's see what I can upload.
These were in a bag with carnival-like plastic pearls... 14k, freshwater pearls, and onyx. The pearls are older, circa 1980s (as was the rest of the jewelry on the table.) Grabbed them for $2.

 

I would have too! I have some of those freshwaters around too, but they were never strung until I strung them. Sweet deal for two bucks! @cxgirl The pin I picked up is most likely American.

 

I grabbed some rice pearls and biwas today, need to photograph them....
I really haven't been out looking hard, but I have been finding a few items.
This is very heavy, found at a flea market with some newer dollar store costume jewelry, I was afraid to ask the price, but it was $5


I found this ring at the flea that day, too, I believe it is sterling, and the stone tests higher than glass on the Presidium, maybe chalcedony? I think there are pictographs of animals, mostly buffaloes, inside. The ring is too big for me, but it is made to fit so comfortably. A grand $4.

The strand was 50 cents in a thrift shop, and it is ivory.

 

Marko...how does the stuff you just found...end up where you found it.....and gets priced at pennies..on the penny !!

 

Found for Rayo. >>>
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Found for the discussion, somewhere, on horseshoes. >>>
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I visited a couple estate sales over the weekend, best deal was a little Swiss Army knife - the seller saw me admiring it and gave it to me for free, saying "quick, put it in your pocket before my wife sees."
And I got a good deal on a glass bowl by Robert Adamson; not a Chihuly but well worth the price; I know someone who'll love it as a gift. No photo yet, but similar to this:

 

That's beautiful, Steve! Love the color of this one. Is yours a similar color or something else?

 

It is hard to describe, a bit more orange than this one, and a somewhat different shape. I'll have to get a photo.
My wife and I figured we should grab it, at much less than $50. She still remembers years ago going to a sale featuring several new glass artists, with some pieces she liked but they were so expensive, like $100. So she and her then-husband didn't get any. By some new kid named Chihuly.
And they had the same experience with an unknown glass artist named Preston Singletary, only his stuff was even pricier - $500!
Now that Preston's pieces are going for around $25,000 she figures it is best to trust those gut feelings.

 

It is OT here....but here is something like one of Preston's that they passed on, as too expensive. Love what his pieces do with light.

 

Hindsight can be a beotch!

 

We only regret those things that we did not buy.

 

my find of the day

 

allfakes, that is very North West First Nations. And lovely.

 

It's a score no matter WHAT the rock is.