Featured Finds Thread

Finally I am back home. Here’s pics of the inside mark and the outside. I do think the stones are glass though.

 

funny...... for what it is....it's still really handsome !!!

 

-wonder if Jewelry pickin's better in the UK than the States (prob an impossible inane question). The lightning hits when it hits-you just need to know the difference between a manhole cover and an emerald.

 

good looking bracelet

 

Hard to say but it’s been an education here, for instance I would not have recognised NA jewellery before joining Antiquers.

 

amazing site.

 

The bracelet is not considered NA,it can be called SW since it was made in a factory by unknown workers.

 

Yes I knew that it wasn’t NA as there was no signature etc The NA was just mentioned as something I didn’t know about, another example being D&E, anyway items I don’t see lot of here in U.K.

 

I am loving the rhinestone pieces.

 

Hollyblue-I assume SW means South West ?

 

Yes it does,since you want to get into jewelry you might find this law interesting..... https://www.doi.gov/iacb/act

 

Holly-Thanks for the legal info.Would it be legally OK to share an NA Artifact online that one owns/owned & is not for sale ? For educational/scholarly purposes only (assuming it's not a documented illegally obtained piece) ?

 

Definitely. It's marked Bell Trading Post, Nickel Silver. No question of what it is.

 

I can't see why not, but it might depend on the artifact.

 

That does sound better than my sparkly balls!

 

Oh well-I picked up about 20 pieces of vintage Franciscan Desert Rose pottery for 38 bucks,then I stumbled on an ancient post of the Antique Silver Laotian Betel Nut Box Mr. Nate picked-up for $40 a few years ago and there ya go-sometimes you're the windshield,sometimes you're the bug ! Now I have to wade into the muck of Ebay to sell this cr#@.

 

Not sure I'd sell pottery on eBay; the shipping eats your profits alive. Not because the buyer pays shipping, but because the buyer has to pay through the nose for shipping.

Finally uploaded and resized some images of last week's goodies. This week looks almost dead. Nothing much out there.

I did score this watercolor lady on Tuesday. I don't think the artist was a listed professional, but she was trained. The frame has a wooden back, so you know it's old. Ida R Larkin if memory serves. I call the lady Maisie. (and if I had the chance I'd be all over that dress!)

 

Stuff from last week. A little bit of gold from the estate sale, and a decent amount of silver jewelry. The stone beads are stone and the watch is gold-filled but older than dirt. The goldtone flower is Lagerfeld. The second estate sale yielded the "jade" horse and the fused glass flower holders. I'll start a thread on those; they're signed and dated 1993 but bedarned if I can read the rest. I'm told the pitcher/water jug glass piece is Norwegian.

 

Evelyn- Think I'll prob take the pottery back to GoodShill,too much of a pain to sell/ship & spend the credit on Clothes-we've both lost weight on Weight Watchers in the last few months.Should've known if I found collectibles there I was doomed ! We actually had a small GoodWill 5 minutes from our house where they didn't seem to evaluate and strain off every last molecule of decent stuff-some of the more podunky stores might still be less disciplined when it comes to putting better items out.They closed our store about 6 months after Covid hit,profit or employee fear perhaps the reason.

 

nice stuff evelyb,I should give estate sales another shot (..the lines though),and it can get gladiatorial.