Featured Finds Thread

Bitossi don't stamp with their name on older pieces or always. It's the style of the ITALY mark, if there is one, and the general style of the piece. A bit I used to have:

 

I'll probably never see any here, but if I do it'll be for pennies since no one else knows what it is either!

 

Thankyou. Off to Google to research the styles.

 

Join the Facebook Bitossi group, they've got some really good albums.

 

I haven't been out much due to the heat and humidity. A few recent finds:
The Laurel Burch silk scarf was $2 at an otherwise over-priced yard sale.


The 26" onyx necklace with a 14k gold clasp and spacers was an antique mall mistake in a zip lock bag marked "black beads" for $4.

Yesterday a local thrift had no jewelry, but I picked up this little Madame Alexander doll with a stand for $6. After researching her, I found that she was made only one year, in 1996, and some sources say she was an FAO Scwharz exclusive. The last one like this, no tag, no box, with a stand, sold for $88 on eBay. She is from the international collection, Mali.

 

I like the doll, oddly, and congrats on the beads! I went out tag-saling today and struck out on jewelry except for some Mardi Gras beads for a donation thing my church does every year. Went out at 7:30 and got home at 11:30 after going to the grocery store at the end. Spent $25 on groceries and maybe $12 on "stuff". Dismal. There was an estate sale locally I could have gone to, but I ran into the homeowner first. No jewelry, just their old furniture and housewares. Given who was running the sale I couldn't run quickly enough. Oddly when I got there it was Number time and there wasn't a show runner in sight. Not a good sign.

Got a few things today and others yesterday. Today's haul included some lucite napkin rings that I hope to pass along to another dealer locally. That was probably the "best" thing - they're still out in my trunk, along with some pewter Dr Seuss Christmas ornaments. The second shot has my favorite finds in it - not valuable, just good for giggles.

 

Thank you. I am sitting here in a thrift shop trying to decide if these watercolors are worth $42 for the pair. Then I have to go grocery shopping.

 

I know I should buy this for 30% off...

 

I've been chanelling my inner @BoudiccaJones

 

And then this for fifty pence. It's one of those Bradford Exchange ones, which they charge almost a hundred quid for! WHA'?

 

Is she a Sindy?

 

So I undid the backs of the "watercolors." They were photographs of watercolors. I bought the old lithograph, "Sunset Dreams," for my bedroom.

 

She is indeed a Sindy. I had that exact outfit, but my Sindy had brown hair.

 

My greatgrandparents had one of these lithos in their living room in the 50s and I loved it. It disappeared some time before they passed. I have been wanting to find one, but I don't remember the artist or printer to search for it. @Marko, do you know the name? I used to know it but simply cannot remember!

 

The artist is R. Atkinson Fox & is called Sunset Dreams.

https://www.google.com/search?q=atk...g&ei=e4sqYfSHDP-f5NoPla2lqAw&bih=937&biw=1920

It is one of 2 that hang on the wall of my office.

 

Aha!! Fox didn't sound right and lo and behold he used the pseudonym, Maxfield Parrish!! That's what my great-grandmother called it!!

 

This is the other one I have hanging in my office. It is called Love's Paradise.

https://christiescurios.com/product...art-mother-holding-child-1920s-art-deco-decor

 

Mine could be a print. I am clueless. I love the shabby chic frame. Here is some info on the artist and his other works. For $31, I couldn't live without it.
https://www.rafoxsociety.com/

 

@Roaring20s may be a Maxfield Parrish aficionado.

and here's some info:

http://thriftshopromantic.blogspot.com/2008/05/confused-about-r-atkinson-fox-parrish.html?m=1

 

Van Nortwick was a better imitator of the Maxfield Parrish style than Fox was.