Featured Finds Thread

I would wear both of them at the same time!

 

Strange day yesterday. Went to a yearly outdoor antique show. First booth I visited the ladyvwanted stupid ridiculous prices for everything. Wandered around, all prices were really high. The show was slow because on the same grounds they had a separate wine festival. I went back to the first lady. She found jewelry in her things and asked me if I thought it was real amber- it was, told her I thought it was, and told her to check with other dealers at the show. She said she thought it was costume

, and was going to put it out, but dealer told her what it was. So she was doing the happy dance and let almost everything she had go for $5!!!! Sometimes it pays to be late to a venue. Here's what I got: GF screwback cameo earrings,
Long strand of pearls, sterling,
Buffalo horn? Bangle,
Trifari kitties in a basket.

 

Kitties

Earrings I will make pierced

Anne Klein, marriage

 

Phone issues today, mix ups
Sterling pearl set

Richard Begay bear claw earrings

 

Then I visited an antique mall.
Spidey was $9
Cameos....probably made for the tourist trade, tube hinges. The MOP has gorgeous blue/pink iridescence I can't capture. It will be popped out of that damaged base metal frame. $6. The double left-facing cameo, Athena and Ares, was $5.

Red glass necklace, $8

Wrap around cufflinks, $3 each

MOP double strand with detachable brooch clasp, $18

Lastly, Goldette festoon choker, open-back crystals. $14. See ebay for one similar, asking $225, 12 watchers.

 

wow nice treasures Marko. And your photos are outstanding.

 

Thanks....photos a bit off due to cloudy skies..

 

Here's a good weekend's finds for me:



I think the pot is an unsigned Santa Clara Pueblo swirl melon jar. I think the belt buckle may be Navajo and was $8, the weaving was $3, and the carved bone seal and man were $1 for the two.

 

I love the belt buckle.

 

Thanks. Matches your blue spider above, just a bit.

 

It is very spidery- that's why I love it!

 

Scored some stuff last weekend. Some this weekend too, but I don't have that photo uploaded yet. Last weekend: a chunky amber necklace, gold-filled and cloisonne, sterling and carnelian cuff, single sterling earrings, sterling pairs, Ciner enamel and rhinestone earrings, a charm bracelet also sterling, and big honker of a Polish sterling and amber necklace. The cross is the only thing I found last Saturday. Silpada sterling.

 

The Tiffany box is now storing the 14k chain, and the frame is Jewels by Robert. The coral is Chinese but it's on sterling. The big chain on the right is vermeil.

 

What part of the country you folks live in ? (don't be givin' way any Tut's Tomb honey holes y'all),my only goal is to discover the most Moronic Thrift-stores regionally per capita.

 

I do like that Indian turquoise chip inlay stuff.

 

The fused glass dish is nice.

 

Evelyb and I are the east coast. She is in New England, tons of jewelry, not too bad here in South Jersey, either.

 

Maybe it's savvy to charge uber high when there's a wine festival next door.

 

A dealer once told me ALWAYS book a table at any show at a winery. They should have had a combined admission fee for both shows. My friend did well at the antique show because he sells old and new sterling jewelry-he probably would have doubled his sales at the wine show.