Featured Finds Thread

Some random person on TV who should know better. If it contains copper or silver, it can tarnish. Want to guess what they use to cut gold? I have other tarnished pieces too. Sometimes it's old age, and sometimes chemical exposure. Or, from the article, onions. Turns out onions make your gold cry too.

 

Want to guess what they use to cut gold?

Today........Fentanyl.....!

 

Hi,
Your sterling pin is a butterfly. They have smooth antennae. Moths have feathered antennae.
greg

 

Very nice everyone. Sorry I think I missed your post Marko, sorry for your loss.

 

Scored these Ohme deco porcelain coffee cups today (hold 3 oz approx) - set of 6 - great condition - according to PM&M - the mark on these was used between 1900-1920. 5 bucks

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At that size I'd call them demi-tasse (i.e. half cup) or espresso cups. I don't know anyone who puts regular coffee in anything that bitty any more.

 

Yes espresso is what I was thinking and should have wrote Demi-tasse sounds way too fancy for me - but I'll add that to my antiquing vocab

 

These are both beautiful.

 

If you are selling these, the term demi-tasse is a vital keyword.

I still serve after dinner coffee in cups this size, but never at the table. And we always referred to them as after dinner coffee cups - probably not correct, but there you are.

 

Most likely I will sell them - if I had been lucky enough to find the matching coffee pot I'd have kept the set for myself for sure. I'll be sure to include demi-tasse in the description. Thanks Mansons.

 

No wonder Mansons - I never serve coffee after dinner. Shockingly declasse of me most likely, but there it is. My preferred coffee cups tend toward full pint capacity.

 

As does my morning cup.............cups..............as in a full 12 cup pot full each morning......................in truth I should not call it morning coffee, as I have it when I wake..........which could be 1:30 am or 10:00 pm.......

 

Here it is pretty much done except for touching up thread with SHARPIES.
I was not neat in sewing, just wanted them on in time and add missing ones and fix whatever else later.
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That's me in my first denim racing jacket as safety and staging lane director in about '70-'71 behind the roll bar of the MG (?) at the drags my car club ran, legally, in Las Vegas.
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One of the track and the '67 427 Vette I used to drive.
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Still have the negative for the photo? Too bad about the condition... but with memories it doesn't matter so much.

 

I probably do and I almost pulled the boxes out when I saw them while searching for that first jacket.
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Here's another. We must've had a lift or boom truck out there at one time to shoot this. Those of you that know anything about drag racing will know of KB (Ken Black) Racing. He owns the 3 Champion Pro Stock cars running. That is he in the colorful early Nova #38. He was in the car club and is still a friend today.
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This is a legal NHRA track run by us on the Old LA Highway South of Vegas at Jean Nevada where we had great fun and NO ONE was EVER hurt!!!!
I-5 is out of the shot to the right. The mountains are in California.
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P.S. Some tracks I've been to or raced at never had patches and so I had some made such as using a Las Vegas one and adding SPEEDROME below because that is what; The Strip at Las Vegas, was first named.
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While there in the Navy I raced a rented car and won its class at Hawaii Raceway Park and so I had the Class Winner patch made though it was going to match a different one before I found the HRP patch.

 

Lookin' good, King!!!!!!!!!

 

Nice! Now that's a collection that makes itself useful. (and those Pickers guys ain't gettin' it!!!!)

Speaking of pickers, I was one of the first three in the door at an estate sale this morning. They had a box full of individually bagged bits of costume, and the guy in the door before me bought the whole thing, unsearched. Dagnabbit. However... the second mouse got the cheese, or in this case the 22k. The double Albert is gold-filled and worn, but the 1881 Five dollar gold piece is nice and shiny.(LOL) He walked right by it. I picked up that, some no-account Indian beads, and a vintage set of Evening in Paris.

 

The early bird gets the worm.....
& just who the heck wants worms ????
Nice pick !!!!