Featured Finds Thread

I think I'm going to take this stack home....

 

@aaroncab I love the Czech bottle. Maybe you should post that under the glass forum for more comments.

Got some fun things last weekend. These two are not in the "Most Valuable" category, but thought I'd post for grins.

.30 for this box of "nut cups". Clearly Japan. Little 1 1/2" pipe cleaner figures with guns.

And couldn't pass up the plastic west German Lion drinking a beer....

 

Hi,
Nice Lowenbrau advertising piece. I remember the nut cups from a friends 1957 birthday party.

 

On the nut cups, each is pinned on with a sharp safety pin. Probably wouldn't pass today's standards.

 

love the lion.....dad used to bring home Lowenbrau....when i was a kid...

 

I found books at two sale locations: . One was an estate sale in the house of a deceased woman and the other was a great sale at a second-hand book store (not a "chain" bookstore).

Here is just a small sampling of the interesting books I found. All of the listed books are hardbacks and in good or even better condition (all three of these were from the deceased individual's household estate sale).

Decorum A Practical Treatise on Etiquette and Dress of the Best American Society. Chicago: J. A. Ruth & Co. 1878 (Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1877, by J. A. Ruth & Co., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.) 352 numbered pages. There was also this most interesting (at least to me) statement printed in the "Preface": "No one no matter how influential, or occupying a position however exalted, could presume to dictate rules for the conduct of others, and at the same time retain their esteem and friendship; for this reason the name of the author of this book is withheld."

Sabrina Hackett, by Emily L. Saybrook, The Prize Series, Boston, D. Lothrop & Co., 38 & 40 Cornhill (1869) 409 numbered pages.

Bede's Charity by Hesba Stretton, New York: Dodd & Mead, No. 762 Broadway. 1872. 311 numbered pages. On the first blank page before the title page is a beautifully handwritten in ink note: "For Emily G Baker from her friend E. A. Crenshaw Christmas 1872".

 

Love the Lion! I just posted the czech bottle over in the glass forums Thanks!

 

That's a seriously nice bottle; I'd have given that house room too. I hit three sales this morning and drew blanks at two of them. I'll get the picture of most of what turned up at #3 later.

 

those are fantastic trunks Dawn!
love the nut cups lucille, they scream 'fun'. Someone will love the lion for their Man Cave.

that is interesting yourturn, I've never seen something like that in a book before.

I love inscriptions like this in books!

 

In reference to my post earlier today, I just realized something about the book which I had not previously noticed. Immediately after the title page there is a page which states (in its entirety):

"It is my wish that Messrs. Dodd & Mead alone should publish this Story in the United States and I appeal to the generosity and courtesy of other Publishers to allow me to gain some benefit from my work on the American as well as the English side of the Atlantic." Under that sentence and toward the right edge of the page is "Hesba Stetton." in typeset print and with the period after the name.

I just realized that on the book's spine and on the title page the author is shown as "Hesba Stretton" but on the page quoted directly above the author's surname is printed as "Stetton" (not "Stretton").

What, if anything, does anyone make of that? Thanks for any and all thoughts you might have.

 

Yesterday's goodies. A pyrogaphed stamp box, a brass pin made to look like used to be gold-plated, and two sterling pins. One is Scandinavian, probably from Norway. Total outlay for what's shown? $5.

 

nice silver, one looks viking, the other...jensen...???

 

Viking wanna-be of course. The other just says Sterling as far as I can see; it has a brass pin stem, and I don't think Jensen used those.

 

Love the green bowl and the swan pin. Brad, nice finds, I especially (of course) love the cameo. Nothing happening here due to Mother's Day, but next weekend a little twice-a-year flea market I have never been to (ran into a treasure-hunting friend and she tipped me off), then Sunday, and outdoor antique show.... pray it stops raining just for a little while. And an estate sale on the way to the flea market!

 

Where's that Greg?

 

Tea strainers?

 

Somebody must have had big tea parties. 13 matching. I give up on polishing them.

 

Are these sterling?

 

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