Featured Finds Thread

Thanks Brad and Terry. I will try to make one. All the exposed wire made me nervous.

 

This is what they look like. This is available from the company in the link for 50 cents. Though, as I said, easy to make your own.




http://www.sundialwire.com/PCOVERBK.aspx

 

Thank you for the link. I taking out my exacto knife right now.

 

The wires are less exposed and farther apart the the prongs

If you are worried about covering, make sure to cover the prongs too

 

I bought this today from a fellow that found 3 of them on a beach - 500W light bulb, probably from the Japanese Tsunami. The one side was covered in mussels, gunk still in place. I have lots of the glass fishing floats, and the glass on the floats is thick compared to this light bulb - amazing so many of them have survived.

 

Trip,

By accident, I was able to ID that monkey vase I thought was 19th C. Japanese Bankoware. This one...



Boy, I could not have been more wrong!

My vase above, from what little research I've done so far, was probably a "prototype" design made by German/American designer 'Karl L. H. Muller (1820 - 1887)' for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Muller was hired by the Union Porcelain Works of Greenpoint/Brooklyn, NY in 1874 to make these special wares for that exhibition. Below are two finished designs of very similar form vases made by Muller/UPW. One is housed in the collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other, the Brooklyn Museum of Art:

 

I'll be contacting both museums tomorrow for their thoughts on my piece.

 

Great researching nuff, they do look very similar! Hope they have good news for you

 

Wow! Those are really cool, 'Nuff. I hope the museums can help pin yours down.

 

cxgirl - it amazing that a light bulb could survive when you think of all the debris crashing into it. I'm curious, where did it washed in? I had read an article that said they expected a ton of debris to wash in from Hawaii up to Alaska. There have been a few news reports of things washing in here and there, but it doesn't seem to be as huge as the experts suggested.

Nuff good luck, I hope you get good news.

 

Terry and Brad, I made a cardboard insert and works great. Thanks for the tip.

 

@Mill Cove Treasures this was found along the coast in Oregon. Here is a story of the Harley Davidson Motorcycle that washed up.
I was talking to some fisherman from Alaska and they have been picking up large numbers of the glass floats this year, best year in a long time.
http://bc.ctvnews.ca/harley-washed-up-on-b-c-coast-heads-to-japanese-owner-1.805951

 

Thank you! And thank you Baker & Cove.

No need to wait for those museum replies. I found it!

According to the book: American Porcelain, 1770 - 1920 By Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, page 192 & 193, it shows an image of the vase with turtle at base (the one seen above, post #2026) and makes this reference: "The same general form is also known in a smaller size and, in rarer cases, with a monkey at the base and a smaller monkey at the rim".

That's my piece without question! Hot damn!!!

I Knew this piece was special, but couldn't for the life of me pin it down. If I hadn't discovered a museum replica vase of similar design/form as the vase with frog at base by accident, I most likely would have listed my piece as 19th C. Japanese Banko. What a mistake that would have been.

 

Hot damn is right! Nice to have the one they refer to as 'rarer' - glad you found the replica vase first!

 

Nuff, how cool is that!

cxgirl - that Harley story is great. What nice people to go through all that to get it back to the owner.

 

Thanks!

I'm glad I found it as well and was able to make the ID from it.

Yes, this piece is quite rare form what I've researched so far. It appears none have ever come-up for sale, and none of the major museums have one within their collection.

Lucky, lucky break I caught running across that museum rep.

 

Thanks, Cove!

 

A set of Japanese Inaba wireless cloisonné vases...



The dude below is asking $500 (15 watchers) for one similar to mine at middle:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SIGNED-INAB...CELEDON-with-NICKLE-SILVER-RIMS-/380425205424

 

19th C. Chinese brass Luohan (missing sceptre)...


Below is basically the same piece, but in bronze and gilt-splashed (not mine, one that sold at auction)...

 

That "bankoware" could get really interesting very quickly if put in the right auction. With any luck, it's a "nobody's got it, everybody wants it" piece; I've seen that sort of thing go for silly money.