Featured Finds Thread

my new fave !!!!!
smooth as warm butter sliding off a woman's midriff.....& just as sweet !

 

The description puts me off, but 18 year-old rum .... well, at least she's legal.

I'd use the rum in Christmas baking - rehydrating raisins, soaking fruitcake (if I did fruitcake), rum balls.... use the runoff from the raisins to make rum raisin milkshakes?

 

Oh...I'm sorry.....I wasn't being vulgar......

 

Some old and new goodies. After a quiet month things really picked up in the last week or so. All sleepers. A few grams of 9ct added to my scrap pile too

Starting with a 1842 Sevres dish


Unmarked Victorian brooch, probably 15ct. Need to replace one of the seed pearls finish it up. The swallows have the tiniest Ruby's for eyes



Yixing teapot, no idea of age



2x modern goebels


Robert Welch drift wood candelabra, weighs 7.5kg. Quite modern, can't find any others like this


Some shou beads

 

This is King Louis Philippe cipher!
It seems to be part of "service des Princes"
Anything on back?

The cherubs among clouds were added later to the service, see there (and use translator...)
http://www.authenticite.fr/authenti...s_au_chiffre_du_roi_louis_philippe-356-1.html

 

Oh thanks kyratango, I had seen other pieces with that same design but had no idea the cherubs we're a later addition, they seem to fit so we'll!

Here is a pic of the back, sadly the red mark is too worn to give any details

 

Was at an estate auction on Saturday that had a LOT of neat stuff. The deceased lived until she was 102 years old and her ancestors were pioneers to the area in the early 1800's. There was a large crowd and prices were very high overall. I mostly got outbid but scored a few small items and some postcards. Below is one of the items I purchased.

Brown Shoe Company Knife


Some of the postcards .....

 

nice knife/bottle opener......

 

The first 2 are keepers.
I went to a sale late so I was quite excited to see this hanging lamp still there when I paid for it the lady said she lost the bet, someone actually bought it, lol.
I picked up this clock on a local auction site, the fellow listed it as 1960s. I'm not sure why as The National Clock and Mfg Co. label is on the back. Needs to be cleaned and then will be back on my wall.
also picked up a Norcrest birds on a nest planter, (these always sell fast) and a Buddha money bank that I'm hoping I will have a key that will fit.

 

my friend had of of those plastic goo lamps in the 70's in Ottawa.....
it was fun to bat it around..............
Was the KITTY clock a new one ??
I love those..

 

good lord, why would you bat the lamp around? it must have broken the spun acrylic
The white cat (in the above photo) and the green cat clocks are late 70s, the red one is 1940s

 

My fav are the birds cxgirl, but you sure found some goodies.

 

I know a good Dental Hygienist!!!!!!! Breath must be AWFUL!!!!!!!

 

Those lamps are / were stronger than you think !
& as for WHY..we did what we did.....it was the 70's...we were baked !!!

 

I would have 'needed' this too. Love Buster Brown & Tige.
Does you shoe have a boy inside?
What a funny place for a boy to hide.
Does your shoe have a dog there too?
A boy & a dog & a foot in a shoe...

 

A finding of my mom, who got inspired about antiquities too. Straw on wood. Made in Ukraine in Kolhoz "Following the way of Lenin" in 1979

 

Interesting old child's plate, probably 1841 or soon after, possibly a birth or investiture plate for King Edward VII

 

Very nice!

 

I was cruising in Artsy stuff....and "Found" this site......Look what this guy (at least from the hand I think it's a guy!!) does JUST to create the dress on this miniature stuff..... @johnnycb09 you might really like this as you have your doll houses!!!! AND there's ANOTHER tutorial, that I didn't look at yet!!!! BTW....click once....it gets BIG!!

https://sculptor101.deviantart.com/art/Figurine-WIP-tutorial-part-2-dress-and-folds-460035871

 

Let them out before they pee on your foot!