Featured Antiquers: Share Your Favorite Purchase Of 2020

I hope it didn't lead to a split personality.

 

I remember that.
I always liked Spike Milligan.

 

This has been a terrible buying year for me. Everything cancelled or closed.(I do not buy on the internet)I am too old to lose a year of hoarding, although our kids ar glad the hoard has not increased. Bought a few items but what sticks in my mind was buying a packet of Tunnocks chocolate teacakes here, a real rarity. Unfortunately I love them. Today the mayor's aide came calling with a 30 euro gift card for each of us. As we are both over 70 we get one each to use in a local supermarket.

 

Beautiful!

 

I decided this was my favourite, a very rare necklace from a very small island in the Wadden Sea.
The Wadden Sea is a special strip of sea which stretches from the north of the Netherlands to southwestern Denmark.
The Wadden Sea islands were important (and filthy rich) during the era of the Medieval Hansa League, a Northern European trade league. Now they are charming historic spots in an important marine wildlife park.

The necklace is silver filigree, made on Amrum, a German island near the Danish border. Current population ca 2000.
It is 19th century, but it reflects the skills handed down from the time of the Hansa. Every half sphere is covered with tiny granules.

Seller's pic, I have yet to take my own:


The Dutch seller had no idea what it was. She thought it too flimsy to go with her 'other' Dutch traditional jewellery and was glad to be rid of it.
I was only too willing to take it off her hands for 12 euros.

 

My favourite isn’t technically antique, but made of valuable material, guaranteed to rise in value and definitely historic. Of course I bought it because I value its beauty and feminist message, and it can still be bought:

For those who don’t know, the National Gallery in London has hosted an exhibit of Artemisia Gentileschi’s works this year, the biggest ever in the UK after acquiring one of her self-portraits in 2018. As an artist she outstripped many of her peers, including her own father, and is an icon of the Baroque movement. Currently, she is best known for her brutally violent depiction of Judith and a maid cutting the throat the Assyrian General Holofernes (shocking but undoubtedly a work of genius). The mask was commissioned by the National Gallery from sustainable producers in Myanmar and is made of pure silk. It’s obviously a social artefact, but it also specifically identifies the year of the show. I was thrilled to be able to see the Gentileschi’s work in person, I think we can safely anticipate institutions like the NG finally starting to buy, display and acknowledge works by groups long-neglected. I hope we don’t need masks much longer. But for people like Gentileschi this is only the beginning

 

Didn't see that. Just as well.

I only wonder if the design was done after the vote, or if they had two differing designs on hand before the vote.

 

thanks for the chuckle Dave, that is too funny

 

Artemisia's artistic revenge on the men who raped her, so a MeToo statement when women had no rights, only duties, even towards their rapists.

 

No, no, no,no,no,no,no...........................& NO !

@daveydempsey ..after reading your other post...I was going to ask you what it was that sent you off the rails >?

I know you're in a fragile state because you've just lost a long time companion...& I get that , but didn't understand the RANT !

Now , I Do !!

Non Antique........the OP does not mention any find here must be Antique !!

Political.....if u didn't mention Brexit....I would not have even gone there !

Offensive...........the only offensive thing I can see about this whole story....is the OFFENSIVE member...who made an OFFENSIVE report , on your seemingly UN-offensive posting of a coin !!! A coin that promotes peace and friendship !!

I would now like to report that member for spurious reporting of a Non Offensive offense ....made by a Moderator ...who knows the difference !!!!!

After reading the Reported claims.....I can only conclude that , that member...is tilting at windmills, several cards short of a deck...& has little or no place in our friendly community !!!

( a member...reporting Davey......that's so 2020 !!! ) ..

 

It seems to me some people have way too much time on their hands and/or have no sense of humor. Finding either the coin post or the body in the fridge post offensive is nuts, they need to lighten up!

 

I’m not usually that interested in porcelain but this tiny little 18th century Lowestoft Chelsea Ewer was bought for pence at a local jumble sale. I knew nothing about Lowestoft porcelain and I bought it because it had hand painted flowers and the lady on the 20 pence per item bric a brac table was keen for someone to buy it and it had just been ignored by the other jumblers.
There was a specialist Auction sale recently where one similar with a noticeable crack sold for £110. I hope to sell mine next year in the Lowestoft Auction. I find myself looking at book and online specimens now and hope to find more eventually.

 

It's very pretty, but I wouldn't have thought that old.

How did you ID it?

You'll have to let us know how the auction goes.

 

Agreed. I would hope that everyone here would show restraint and respect other people's right to their opinions and also honor the tradition of free speech and sensible dialogue especially in this time of crisis.

If anything my avatar or one of the items in my opening post is more of a political nature than that coin. I am grateful to our moderation team for being reasonable people willing to put up with a lot in the management of this forum.

 

I would hope that everyone here would show restraint and respect other people's right to their opinions.........

Well yes...but only up to a point !
I...as is plainly visible ..do not respect the slapdash opinion of the 'reporting' member.........while at the same time , I do respect your opinion !!!

 

I will tell all after the auction in October.
To ID, I Googled small hand painted cream jugs (4 ins high) and some similars came up. They date from around 1770. The more I got to know about the factory the more interesting it all became.
Still love the jewellery best though!

 

I wish the 'reporting' member would have posted their opinions in the open for all to see. There would be more respect in that, they could have posted their grievances in the general discussion area rather than trying to get Davey to self censor his own post. Seems a bit petty and underhanded.

Anyways it is sad that this thread is off track.

 

Lol

 

Lol