Featured Finds Thread

The flower may be celluloid; it's certainly old enough. If you're selling it, calling it "early plastic" is safe; I've seen similar bits made during WWII and just afterward, and that metal is pretty darned old. The lady is a craft show piece, probably 1980s.
Someone else who really knows plastics from the era may be able to pin down wheredunnit and maybe a more exact "when".

 

I love seeing all of these finds. It has been very hot here and no matter where I look, I am not seeing yard sales advertised... it seems people just make up signs and put stuff out and I don't get there to get anything good. Not many estate sales going on, either..... still waiting for a big church sale to be rescheduled, but I think the weather is playing a part here.

I have been on a major decluttering/organizing kick. I took about two carloads to a thrift shop near my uncle's long-term care place, they are very nice and appreciate it. Got rid of a lot of books, pictures, frames, clothing, and the very junkiest of the junky costume jewelry that came when I waved my hand and said "how much for all?" and picked what I wanted out.

My uncle is coming to the end of his journey, so I haven't been in the mood much, either, to treasure hunt. I cannot sleep once I wake up in the morning, so I did go to my favorite flea market yesterday and today. Yesterday was a total wash, but today, it was strange, there was tons of sterling very reasonable that nobody picked up.....or missed. On Sundays, people set up all various times, some are setting up as late as 11 a.m. So I just walked around the place three times (you know that's the charm.) I will try to get pictures up of the sterling soon. My uncle's only surviving brother just passed away a few days shy of his 95 birthday, and the funeral is Tuesday. Not trying to be a Debbie Downer, it's just why I haven't been here.

Your finds make me smile, keep them coming!

 

Hey Marko - sorry for the pressures and sorrows. Keep your head up and come rant and rave to your friends if you need it......................

 

Seems that after 4 days only you got that Joy.

 

Thank you! I'll post this in the jewelry thread, too.

 

Love all the finds.

Marko so sorry for the sadness and the sorrow.

This summer, thus far, has been a bust in finding anything worth buying.
And might I add, sales are in the ter-lit too. Oy

 

That looks a bit like Buster Brown I'd say......

 

It does! :O I wonder if it's a coincidence or if it's styled off of the character.

 

Try looking up BB pins/brooches.

 

Looks like a Hibiscus to me.

 

Didn't "Buster Brown" have almost a "bowl cut" for his straight(ish) hair???

His hair did a bit of a "flip-up" near lower-ear level but he certainly was no "Little Lord Fauntleroy" hairstyle-wise.

 

If you back to the earliest I think he looked more so but here are a few later ones.
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This Orrefors Edvin Ohrmstrom signed crystal vase. 2 bucks on my way to work today at a thrift. Small chip on the foot/base outer rim above the sig. Other than that in good condition. Same vase as this one here;

http://modernism.com/items/2741/dec...526-orrefors-crystal-vase-signed-artist-edvin

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First -- thank you to everyone (so many of the regular posters in this forum) for the kind words over Tasha and her passing this weekend. I will not be changing my avatar, even when we get a new pet or pets, as she will always be my original assistant, as she was at all our homes. She loved my treasures, kissing the ones she liked, ignoring the ones she didn't. Smart dog as I said. Whew... Anyways.
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Left the house for a little bit this morning to run some errands and stopped by the Will.

Currently, I don't know for how long, the Wills' here give a 10% coupon off your next purchase if you complete a shopping survey when you go home. I mean, I don't know about you, but an extra 10% off of thrifting is like I won at a slot machine! Cheap, fun, silliness, but all profit counts. I'm on my second coupon now.

Only purchased a few items today, but these two are my favorites. A Belleek picture frame and Wedgwood mulberry plate with a Baylor University scene. This one is out of stock and seems to sell high. About $4.00 for both items.

 

Nice! I went today too...spent 50 cents on a West African woven whatchamacallit it's woven like a basket but flat. Spent another buck fifty on a necklace I'll be tearing apart. Both were half price. The necklace is a craft show piece, but has a sterling clasp that would cost me about $10 retail. The platter thingie is headed to a friend's office.

 

I GOT A FIND!!!

I hardly go looking anywhere these days, but DS and I went for a jaunt to a little town up-Island and stopped in a "junque" store. Most unique item was an old "cottage" baby grand piano for $1400. Apparently, a cottage piano has 85 keys instead of the usual 88. Needed work, but then, lots of antique pieces (and people!) do.

Anyway, I was looking at all the coffee mugs and knock-knacks and what did I spy? A kutani vase. Looked like a rose amongst a pile of thorns to my eyes. Not best quality, but I've seen worse, and I do believe it's at least turn of the 20th c. Height: 7 inches. Cost: $3 CDN. Had to be mine. I just stick with all my other bits of china and DH will never know. Shhh!

 

Oh my, a pretty-pretty. I don't usually respond to pottery, but this one really appeals to me and I can't even say exactly why.

P.S. My lips are sealed, I promise.

 

Nice one, Wendy!

So I haven't posted any Finds in a while - mostly because I just never got around to transferring my pictures from the SD card to the computer - since MAY! There were 93 pictures when all was said and done.

So here's sampling of what I've picked up at various yard and estate sales since then.

First group is what I consider the best - all from one estate back in June. $32 got me 5 Pacific Cloth silver wraps (3 for flatware and 2 large hollowware bags, a "Wings of Victory" Niloak 7" bud vase, a small "ear of corn" pitcher (both for my green collection), a Huxford Roseville book, and "How to Identify Bennington Pottery" by Richard Carter Barret (very beaten up but the binding is still intact.) And the guy at the desk through in the amber Van Ess bottle for free (it was only 50 cents anyway.) I found the bottle with a label online. Seems it was for some kind of dandruff preparation. Looks pretty in the window.



This next wins the prize for "Oddest Item." (And I actually got 2 because the seller wouldn't split them up - $1 for both.) A Heinz "Pickle Pin" of the older variety, based on the pin mechanism. The newer ones (70s and 80s) had modern style safety pins.





Here's the latest - went to a group yard sale and a front lawn estate sale with a really bizarre collection of stuff. The group sale yielded a Maestricht "Willow" saucer in pink transfer (or should I call it red?) It was only a buck and I'm a sucker for the willow pattern.

At the "estate" I almost turned around and left because it was such a jumble - lots of "stuff" still in random boxes (almost nothing priced) and a rather large crowd pulling stuff out all over the place. Books, tools, military uniforms, electronics, motorcycle boots, and on and on. But there turned out to be 2 tables of mostly ceramics and glass, lots of very small figurines. And from all of that I came away with an 8" Roseville White Rose console bowl in pink and green (under a pile of books!) and a 3.5" Jaeger (Bavaria) tumbler-style vase (wouldn't be for drinking from with all the decoration at the rim.) I think I did okay for $10 total.

 

It was worth the wait, Bakersgma.

The "3.5" Jaeger (Bavaria) tumbler-style vase" is my favorite and the Heinz pickle comes in second.

You made out like a bandit, didn't you?

 

I think so too! There's a whole lot more, but I've exhausted my photo-editing energy for today.

I'm going to ask about the ear of corn on it's own thread.