Featured Finds Thread

Is it micromosaic? Can you get a good close-up?

 

Wonder what this blue thing is draped over the tree branch.

 

It is definitely mosaic (obvious with a loupe). I can’t get a good close up with my phone camera but can when I’m back at the shop with a better hd camera.

 

It's official; I want to shop where you shop! All my local thrift gets are Target leftovers! No jewelry at all except the stuff that comes in on a Target load.

 

Wow, you win the forum tonight! That mosaic is amazing and the Amber goes on forever

 

The blue thing is meant to be a snake.

Flaming hellfire, you stole both of those.

 

I'll let him have all the jewelry if I can get the first crack at the silver he finds there!!

 

Walnut coal box now sitting beside my firemantle. I am guessing this is late 19th century, and I wont say it is a bargain but a fraction of what the antique shops ask for similar ones. However I think as victorian fire scuttles go then this one is quite a handsome one.

 

A purdonium!

 

Thanks Bear,

I was curious if the different shapes had any meaning, and looked up the word purdonium. The word was based on the inventor a Mr Purdon.

I was surprised that with so many gas fires, people are using them as lamp table's.

I also found this which is quite extravagant and apparently the victorians, at first found the purdonium another extraordinary fashion of mock classicism

 

It's been Deadsville around here. The Ill Will has been living up to its reputation and the ReStore has been full of stuff but nothing worth buying. Spent $1.60 including tax today on two things. One was a freebie - 1930s cross-stitch (best guess) and a lidded cut glass dish. The ReStore was going to toss the embroidery because there's no market. The glass is probably silverplate, but it matches Grandma's wedding gifts from 1921.

 

It's a rather splendid purdonium. Some are dull, to say the least.

 

It's certainly eye-catching.

 

That is a lovely cut glass dish for less than $1.60; and if it is from the 1920's wont it soon be antique glass.

Just last week, I saw a set of 12 waterford crystal cut glass sell for $1071 (incl taxes). There was a waterford crystal factory in Ireland from 1783 to 1853, it then closed for 100 years before being re opened in Waterford by a joint venture between two famous Czeckslovakian glass makers and an Irishman in 1947 after the soviets nationalised their Czech factories. They then recreated the origional Waterford Lismore design from the 18th century. Long story short, my best guess is that the glasses were from the earlier factory. Waterford glass of any era though sells very high.
Here they are:

 

Thanks Bear. I thought it had an appeal, it has some rough edges but I have seen many Purdoniums come and go, but something about this caught my eye. I think it is the lightly burled walnut wood that shines through, with the brass they are a good match.

I can see the value in making lamp tables out of the rectangular shaped ones as many are solid hard wood. I have to really inspect this closer, as it appears solid but apparently the cabinet maker puts a walnut veneer onto a mahogany base.

I think these are more likley the one's converted to lamp tables and they fetch quite sum.

 

Charity shops, just getting my fix in before they all shut. Most expensive was the plated arm bangle for £1.50 and the Burmantoft pot was £2.95.
The Pearl necklace would look better knotted, I was surprised that they were real, clasp is silver. Silver ring, Pearl earrings and seahorse brooch, damascene pendant.

 

I like the seahorse pin.

 

Love the color on that pot!

 

Thanks Pearls. It might be German, it’s stamped Sterling, Foreign. There’s another I found online which does say German.

 

I have a love/hate find ! I fell absolutely in love ,bought them and drug them home,and within minutes I could smell them. Wich I HATE ! Obviously from a home with lots of pets and never opened a window. What do I do ??? Anyhoo,they are 39 high,15 wide and will go perfectly with my big wire wall sculpture.