Featured Finds Thread

A friend bought a big box of NOS pens from a guy that got them in a storage locker. Most of the pens were decorated for 1980s era Superbowls or NFL teams. Mostly Parker Vectors. This was in the box too.
Most likely never in Pete's possession but likely made to present to him.

Today he gives it to me. After he sold off all the other pens which were its only sort of provenance.

 

Reminds me of my old clip on earrings Love the little box

 

The little cloud box is adorable.
And your clip on earrings are lovely, Shiloh.
Do you think the cabachons are glass or amethyst?

 

Thanks Greg & Lady. I actual knew what piece went with the box as a kind board member helped ID the contents when I first posted it along with other items last year. Watching that episode of Roadshow just reminded me that I have a similar Steuben box as I nearly forgot about it. Thanks again for your comments and links.

@Shi & Anti. Thank you!
Yes, those earrings are quite lovely.

Below is the interior of another little (1-1/2 in.) guy I managed to pick from a another seller. Chinese gilt and enamel. These little boxes I believe were made for Westerns for use as snuff or to hold pills. Some sell quite well. I remember having a similar size one (silver and blue enamel) in the form of a drum that sold for nearly $150.

 

Did ya hear about the guy in Phoenix , who recognized a watch in a 2nd hand store, bought it for $5.99 & sold it for $ 35,000 !!!!

Holey Moley !

 

Dang. All I ever find are Chinese-made quartz watches with "Japanese movement", unless it's an overpriced Seiko. All women's. I did however find this today... a piece of prisoner of war art from the internment camp on the Isle of Man. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. A German or Austrian immigrant to England carved it out of what looks like a cow bone.


This next one is going locally if it goes at all. It's a wooden cane that's made to look like it telescopes into itself. The handle is horn with a silver band around it. The band has initials and a date - September 27 1899. Price for both pieces? Five bucks.

 

There's tape on the cane handle; I think the tape is older than I am. There are two people locally who collect canes. One of them will get it out of my hair, doubtless.

 

No, but nice score.

Here in Jersey, Princeton Univ. just received a donation of rare antique books and manuscripts worth damn-near $300M.

Link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/102431207

 

Very nice, Eve! I love that bone carving!

 

That bone carving is really cool!

 

The people who sold it couldn't find a darned thing out about it, except that it came from an internment camp... and marked it two bucks. I'd grab any bone carving this nice no matter the age, but this was special.

 

Love that little box nuff!
Great pieces evelyb30!

 

Yes they are amethyst and Chinese made.

 

Send me the earrings and no one gets hurt. You don't want those, Shiloh. No no, you don't.

Isle of Man: NOT a PoW camp, but for civilians. My uncle was interned there for about nine months at the start of WW2. He'd escaped Berlin in '38 for Britain. After war was declared, "aliens" from enemy countries were interned till it could be proved they were no threat. They were housed in hotels on the sea front, and he said it wasn't exactly arduous. Many of the internees, especially the Jewish ones, were highly educated - there was a university, orchestra, and business networks. Uncle met his business partner there. He got released back to London, met my aunt and married her. Till the day he died, he loved Britain for the haven it gave him.

Your carving is very nice, it would do well here, especially as it's WW1 anniversaries.

 

A sight better than what Canada did to it's Asian population !

 

Or the US.
But I don't think it was all beer & skittles for the Germans being interned either.
I think it depended on where they were being held.

 

If there is some sort of provenance the IOM carving would sell well in Britain.

There was inevitably a fair amount of injustice about the internment, but to be fair, any sleeper spies would have come with well documented evidence of persecution and a good cover story.

 

In the immortal words of General William Tecumseh Sherman, "War is hell.".

 

Then why are we still doing it ?

 

Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
@AF - I wish. What you see is what I got. It's hard to believe someone in the USA would fake a piece of WWI internment camp carving made out of a soup bone.