Featured Finds Thread

love the feeder and vase...

 

Again..great finds. Sharona, I will let everyone know when I have my surgery

I have had a few Gorham pieces that had a letter mark too and never could find the reason? I just sold them as is.

My daughter has great Thrifts where she lives, mine are ll too high priced and mostly JUNK.

 

The watch top left is English, and will have a silver case, possibly a fusee movement. The one on the right may be an original Roskopf, and the bottom one dates from about 1925, and I cannot see the name on the dial.

I'm guessing the hallmark on the English one is about 1850. The damage to the stem probably was the reason it found its way to a junk box.

More and better pictures equal more and better information.

 

Love the floor lamp! Was thinking it might be Majestic but after a little looking, don't really think so. I know I have seen it somewhere before.

Just got word that my cart sold today. Just in the shop 3 days and sold for $115.00. Not bad for a pick from the road

 

My latest finds....

Conversation by JP Mahaffy, 1911 edition
The Excelsior Music Reader for Village and Rural Schools, 1912 first (and only) edition
Found the two books at separate yard sales. My favorite thing about the small green book is that in the back it includes other books published in the same format, including titles such as 'Law, and how to keep out of it', 'Practical Palmistry', 'Ventriloquism', 'Hypnotism' and 'Socialism'.

The cup and two saucers to the left came from my birthday trip to goodwill with some friends. They were made in occupied Japan. The ones to the right include two cups and four saucers came from a yard sale. The makers mark says that they were made in Austria, but I really don't know anything else about them.

 

I had a book on Palmistry once.

It was very handy

 

You are sooooo bad, Afantiques (and on Terraspirit's first day to boot).

 

Love that lamp cxgirl. You always find really cool items.

 

Among other old books I have is my grandmother's "Maury's Geography [etc.]" book published in the early 1880s.

My favorite passage from it is (doing this from memory because I don't have the book in hand right now):

"When you come home from school your kind mother who loves you has milk and cookies for you to eat. When Esquimaux [yes, that is the spelling in the book] children come home from school their kind mothers who love them have whale blubber for them to eat."

 

Hi,
I love your chicken feeder.
greg

 

Yes, the lamp is pretty cool. I stopped buying lamps without shades as I have a hard time finding shades here, but this one I couldn't turn down.
I have a big old stoneware piece that fits under the chicken feeder and they look great in my yard - I had to keep it.
Terraspirit, those cup and saucers from Occupied Japan are very pretty - Happy Birthday!

 

Thank you, cxgirl!!!

 

You are sooooo bad, Afantiques (and on Terraspirit's first day to boot)


The joke was pretty obvious, but it was simply the truth.
I really did have a book on palmistry, it was called 'Cheiro's Language of the Palm' or something similar, and it was handy because "May I read your palm?" was a better pick up line than "May I fondle your hand in a somewhat peculiar manner?
I was a teenage boy who needed all the help he could get.

 

This tarnished secession table decor (you may call it spitkid, calling-card holder or whatever) was made circa 1910 and i got it for really cheap.

 

As for this vase, it's not antique at all, but it has an interesting form and i like this amber-colour, so i had to get it...

 

Like your little tray. Think it is more art nouveau than secessionist. Depending on size, it could be a pin tray. Other than the greening that probably should be taken care of, I think it has good patina.

 

Brad, I had a feeling that cart wouldn't last. That would have sold quickly here too. Congratulations and all the sweeter that it was a freebie!

 

Thanks! I thought I was pricing it a bit high considering my market and the fact it had some rust/pitting. It also probably needed a better cleaning than I gave it. It was a very cool little cart and I probably would have kept it if I had a legitimate use for it. Just can't keep everything.

 

Hi mango89,
I like your vase for its form. Your little pin tray needs work but please do not polish it. Treat it like an antique bronze. Put in into a small plastic box submerged under cheap olive oil and cap it leave it for a week or two and then wash under hot soapy water. The "greenies" will either be gone and leaving a wonderful patina OR still be present and needing a longer soak. This wonderful hint comes from the coin board and you know how they HATE cleaned coins.
greg

 

Hi everybody - Long time...

Bea-u-ti-ful stuff!!! Trying to get caught up.

I could claim to have been off working on world peace or curing ebola or something else worthwhile, but the truth is the new World of Warcraft expansion came out a few months ago and I've been busy killing orcs and trolls and such.

I did get to one auction & picked up a few items including a batch of cabinet cards - these are only part of the lot - lots of English churchmen, French politicians, a few literary figures, etc.

The gentleman in the middle, second from left, is Chas. Newman Hall, who, according to wikipedia, "was one of the most celebrated nineteenth century English Nonconformist divines. He was active in social causes; supporting Abraham Lincoln and abolition of slavery during the American Civil War..."

Then there's the Brownings (lower left) and Dumas (right). I'm working on a list & will post a few ?'s in ephemera when I see what I can't identify.

Cheers & a belated happy Christmas and new year to everyone.