Featured Finds Thread

Sorting and putting jewelry away. Some costume I liked.
Circa 1930's GF butterfly wing pendant
I don't know if I showed this milefiori set before my old computer crashed

This one is puzzling me, I will post it on the jewelry board

Seashore things- the sterling Kabana mermaids were an antique mall mistake

pewter crab brooch (Cancer is my zodiac sign)

I love my circa 1940's lobster brooch. I will wear it to the Lobster House in Cape May when they open for dinner after a vaccine.

Anne Klein belt, I have not seen one with this buckle on the internet

L'Air du Temps lalique diamond chip pendant
US occupied Germany coin purse

 

"As God as my witness,I thought turkeys could fly!" a classic episode if there ever was one !

 

Just caught up,what great finds all ! heres a few of mine...
6 plates and 6 smaller plates,St. Amands faience . I really thought they were period,but alas,1989 reissues. But for $1 each they are pretty and will go well in my dining room.Celebrating the French Revolution




Bavarian hat pin holder,Ive been looking for one to display my stick pins forever. Theres plenty out there,but I wasnt paying those prices ! $2

Art deco for days vase,still havent found the maker .


After a months long silver drought,snagged these beauties!

 

I remember it well !!! LOL

 

Nice haul, Johnny!!

 

Pigs and chairs...

 

Nice chair !
Sweet pigs...........carnival ride ??

 

Thanks.
Yes , fair ground attraction.

 

I adore funky stuff like that !

 

Went to a large flea market about 40 minutes away for the first time in several years. Today was a great day for it, warm but not oppressively so and no precipitation whatsoever. Focused on the outside vendors and found some items and even ran into a friend that attends our postcard club meetings. There was a lot of junk but some antique/vintage items to be had. Wish I would have got there a few hours earlier as the place was packed with shoppers carrying away items.

My finds,

 

I love the hat pin holder. Great score on the sterling!

 

The vase is Brush Mccoy Kolorcraft Moderne,it took me forever to find it !

 

it had me thinking of the Roseville bomb style....

but, just fer a moment...

 

those pigs are fabulous

 

Thanks.

 

Almost as good as a find is the story behind it. Hubby was up to driving me around Saturday, and we visited a thrift shop I have never been to. It was really a retail-type of shop that also sold second-hand items.

They did have some jewelry, most marked $3.99. I didn't find much, just two costume pieces I liked and a sign. They said they had a barn in the back, which was really a little shed. When I walked in the shed, I saw a huge old jewelry box with a sign that said "$14.99 All." I took a quick peek, and grabbed it. The jewelry box is a mess, going into the trash, but here is the best of the contents.


This set is Harry Iskin, gold-filled


Shoe clips. The cut steel buckles have an added attachment that converts them to shoe clips, never saw anything like it.

The brooch in the red box is Roles gold-filled.

This was labeled "lucite purse handles."

On the plate, the three floral pins are Jewelart sterling. The little bud holder pin looks like silverplate, no marks. The pin at the top right is smokey quartz and pearl, gold-filled. C pin is Trifari. Heart and key is two pins, chatelaine? style. Another big retro pin at the top.


So I grabbed the jewelry box and went back to look at the boxed items for $3.99 again. Good thing I did.

 

I cannot resist anything that has a label offering me the whole lot for not a lot!

 

When I went back, one box had the 14k gold hoop earrings. Another box had a 14k gold rope chain with the 14k crescent moon charm and the 10k cherub charm. The ring on the plate is 10k, some junky center stone, was in the jewelry box. I spent a whooping $37 and there was some junkier, newer stuff I threw in small ziplocks and filled a craft mason jar with. The thing I love is that the items were in orginal boxes from the 40s, with that old velvet and satin linings.

 

Here is some thrift shop (a different one) glassware, not my forte, but the Val St. Lambert hexagon candlesticks were $5 for the pair and the Ralph Lauren Crosby hurricane candle holder was $17. I will use it as a vase.

 

SCORE! I love those "who'd want that junk" buys!