Featured Finds Thread

moon, that planter looks very nice!
nuff tha incense box looks interesting - is it metal? I like the blue bits on it .
@Snipsa I like your Steiff animals. Maybe start a thread on your Steiff animals so someone that knows Steiff will see them.
I picked up two pieces of Poole Pottery, both from the 1970s. I'm kind of liking the green one.

 

The green one is Poole Delphis. The plate is the Santa Maria - I've a feeling those were done for the Bicentennial.

If you post pictures of the marks, I can probably tell you who the decorators were.

 

My finds today will have photos later. A nice William IV pole screen with its original tapestry for about $30. A huge bag of vintage silk scarves for $15, paid for by the discovery of a Versace one at the bottom. And I found a ten pound note in my garden!

 

That green vase is very appealing!

 

Thanks bear - I was just being lazy and didn't put the info in the post. The charger is Aegean and signed Diana Davis, no artist marks on the vase but I believe there were 2 artists that are known to have done them. I have the names written down somewhere. Finding money is always a good find!
I agree anti!

 

Found money is always a Good Thing. All I found this weekend was disappointment.

 

So I know I've been a bit MIA lately, but lemme tell, my life is not my own at the moment. However, I did manage to do a little browsing amongst some tables set up in a mall -- dealers do this a couple of times a year. Bought the little Valentine photos and two floral china brooches for $15. The Laurel Burch plates I bought at a thrift yesterday (I went clothes shopping and after that depressing escapade, I decided to give myself a treat and shop at the thrift before going home!). One is fine condition and the other has 4 small glaze chips on the rim. One was $2.99 and the other was $2.29. They aren't money makers, but I'm keen on her designs, and since she has passed away, there isn't anymore coming. I'm going to hang them on my kitchen wall. The round Ruskin-looking brooch was an ebay purchase (and not particularly cheap, but I seem keen on these early porcelain pieces at the moment), but the strange thing is that it's marked "Astra" which makes me think Minton Astraware. Wonder if it was made by Minton, or just a minor manufacturer making arts and crafts style jewelery. Has a repair to the hinge which isn't fancy, but works.

 

Rest of photos:

 

You found some neat items Wendy. Love the little valentine photos and that red brooch is gorgeous!

 

>...marked "Astra" which makes me think Minton Astraware. Wonder if it was made by Minton,...

Look what I found about these porcelain rounds, "MINTON HOLLINS "ASTRA" CABOCHON."
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/52639-minton-hollins-astra-cabochons

The above article, in the 1st comment, mentions Ruskin's rounds with a link to a Ruskin's jewelry site/page. On that site it has/says:

"Minton and Kensington potteries were other producers of ceramic cabochons whose work is now seldom found."

followed with a pic of a silver mounted green Minton Hollin's round describing it as:

"1-3/4" d; Sterling mount;old "C" catch; light crazing; glazed back, faintly impressed ASTRA, from Minton Hollins. Private collection."

Scroll down about 1/2 way:
http://www.modernsilver.com/ruskin.htm

--- Susan

 

Thank you so much Susan for finding out that info. I guessed right for a change and maybe I didn't overspend for once. The seller had a few interesting brooches and I bid on a few but this was the only winner for me. Now, if I could stumble across a Moorcroft one...

That's so funny that Etch A Sketch has the copyright, Don! I wonder if anyone has tried to reproduce the images using an Etch A sketch! There is a copyright date and name on the bottom of one of the pix. If the label was intact, we might have had the exact production date, but I think you're quite accurate enough! Was probably an inexpensive Valentine's Day trinket. The frame is simply pressed metal, maybe tin.

 

Wendy, I have a copy of "Cupid Asleep", and on the back is - No. 2002 - Copyrighted - Cupid Asleep - Published By Taber' Prang Art Co. - Springfield, Massachusetts.

I suspect, but haven't verified it, that Taber' Prang may have been the original company that then became Ohio Art?
Donno.

 

Ah ha! Here is some info on how Ohio Art got them . . .
http://www.countrywomanmagazine.com/home-garden/whats-it-worth/whats-it-worth-cupid-photo-print-2/

 

From the following website, M.B. Parkinson was the original photographer of the Cupid Awake, Cupid Asleep pictures. He sold the rights of the pictures to Taber Prang Art Co. in 1897. Then it says:

"In an ironic twist, Taber Prang refused Ohio Art’s $100,000 offer for the rights, only to see Ohio Art snap them up for just $10 in 1938 when Taber Prang went bankrupt. Ohio Art, today best known for making the Etch A Sketch, still holds the rights."

Read more: http://www.countrywomanmagazine.com...s-it-worth-cupid-photo-print-2/#ixzz3RGp2pwOa

--- Susan

 

Ohhh, Messi can type faster than me!

--- Susan

 

It's all good Susan. I know the company Prang which may be after Taber Prang. Good quality stuff.

 

Ohio Art also made all those colorful tin toys we played with as kids.

https://www.google.com/search?q=ohi...a=X&ei=kgfZVPiwFqjksATnwYDwAw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

 

Verybrad, oh my goodness, your link was like looking through an old Christmas "wish book" -- oh those spinning tops (whether whistling or musical) were always a favorite. My male cousins had the Ferris wheel toys and drums while my sister and I had the "tea sets" and musical spinning tops to play with at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Christmas morning.

No wonder little girls grew up being quiet "little ladies" -- we seldom had the chance to be otherwise unless we were playing outside where it was no holds barred.
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I always lose the FINDS thread even though I have it on my watch. I found it in my Antiquers updates email

Nuff..I REALLY want to go shopping with you WOW!!! Love the dish and ALL your other goodies you find

Sharona LOVE all your eye candy. CX nice vase
Messi, neat pins. Through the years I picked up a few Cara pins.
As for the Fragonard, I have also picked up many a piece of jewelry and a jug and basin with his art work.
I never thought of ANY piece with his art work as fake? I just thought they were popular courting scenes that others liked to add to their wares ?

All the other finds too numerous to mention are making me want to shop. But............I promised myself no more till I list the cwap I have.