Featured Finds Thread

Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you !
Was worth a shot !

 

Need help with antique pottery mark. I got this pretty little dish in a lot of china and I haven't been able to identify the "R" mark on the bottom. The dish looks a lot like a saucer from a cup and saucer I found that was marked Dresden. Any ideas?

 

Try Helena Wolfsohn on that saucer.

 

My late dad was too young to serve in WWII, and his dad was too old and missed being drafted for WWI. Mom's dad was in the first go-round. I did have a friend who was a church elder who I knew for sure served in the army during WWII. What he never said until I saw his obituary was that he was a Captain in the Intelligence service - one of the few cases where Military Intelligence wasn't an oxymoron. He never said a word.

 

Paid about retail for this but I've been wanting to add to my tobacco tin collection lately and this was a really nice example.

 

Terry, Alpha Epsilon Iota? Female med students sorority.....the snake....

 

Terry......
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-victorian-sterling-silver-aei-1617281041

 

Terry, it is Alpha Epsilon Iota
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/alpha-epsilon-iota-fraternity-14k-137495885

 

Soapstone and metal vulture - for my desk menagerie:

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Off the top of my head. Is that a dresden saucer with a fake Augustus Rex mark?

 

Decided to look it up in one of my books. Sorry, I do not think it is a fake Augustus Rex Mark. There are quite a few "R" s listed and there a few similar "r"s but none identical.

 

I still think it's Helena Wofsohn.

 

Lots of lovely finds,Im almost embarassed to post mine! Not really,this is the only place anyone cares about my finds!
Set of 8 Libbey(?) glasses,champagne?


set of 4 swedish(?) crystal glasses



$1.99 grab bag

Vase that ive seen a zillion times,but now that Im trying to find it of course I cant!



Fab sake set ! Can anyone help with the mark?



Laquer box,love the colors

13 1/2 inch vase,applied bottom,Chinese?


Small silver bowl

 

Hi,
Your small silver bowl is called a porringer. Love your new stash!!!!
greg

 

Someone abused this poor Italian pottery so I got it for a buck...hoping to remove all the hot glue without damaging it...

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Thanks, this is the artist and the painting is called Aphrodite.
https://theartstack.com/artist/william-adolphe-bouguereau/aphrodite-27

I have to look up Mrs. Robert Taylor. I get what you are saying about paintings. I hesitated buying one I really liked for $3,000 a few years ago by a local artist, Victor Grasso. I took a picture of it and it is a screensaver on my cell phone. His paintings now start at $20,000.....I will have to upload the one I loved. Let's see if I can find it now on the internet....

 

The Victor Grasso collection I loved....
http://www.victorgrasso.com/the-sea-is-calling?lightbox=image_135o

The print I loved.....Flotsam

 

Wow - looks like you nailed it! Thanks so much. I wasn't familiar with Helena Wolfsohn. The mark is still a bit of anomaly though, as it really should have the AR mark.

 

Managed to get most of it off without affecting the finish - but on a couple spots on the neck some of the paint came off with the glue

 

Pretty! You had vision,I wouldnt have looked twice.