Featured Finds Thread

I hunt these spare bails!!!

 

u sure that's mother of.........and not A Pearl !!!

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/largest-pearl-giga-1.5073708

 

It's all nacre to me. Funny. I just always thought of it as a blob of MOP, but suppose that's what a baroque pearl is. Thanks for reframing it. I feel so rich now!

 

Do you have much luck finding them? I've never gone looking, I admit.

 

MOP is taken from the shell...a pearl......is a pearl....
how big is yours..?

 

Excuse me? Alright, seriously. An inch tall, half inch widest, about 3/8 thickest. It's all the same stuff, laid down in the same way. It belongs as the lining of the shell, to make it smooth against the squishy mollusk, but critter will use it to envelop an irritant. This must have been one good sized irritant.

 

You're excused....
I've never seen anyone cut up a pearl to make mother of pearl.....

 

For some reason I was thinking (but not too hard) that it was MOP taken from a thick walled shell cut into that shape. But the surface ripples & dimples & is obviously just as nature made it. Thanks for making me rethink it.

 

Got this large Arts & Crafts baked mud today for $5.99+, not sure who did it yet.

And a Bang & Olufsen BeoGram 4004 record deck for $33.+, probably gifting it to my brother. (not my photo).

 

Looks like Roseville Carnelian II … Nice find!

 

wasn't that B&O $2000 in it's heyday.... good grab !!!!!

 

My pleasure........oh & BTW......... Nice big honkin Pearl !!!!!

 

The sparkly, leafy band that holds it makes it look kind of like an Easter Egg. Had to buy it to get this:

 

what is that between her legs...?

not yer everyday cameo...

 

A bat

 

A bit of glue or something stuck in places

and it's sideways

 

That’s it Brad, Thanks!

 

His legs. And Holly is correct, it's

It is Ariel, from The Tempest:

Where the bee sucks, there suck I.
 In a cowslip’s bell I lie.
 There I couch when owls do cry.
 On the bat’s back I do fly
 After summer merrily.
 Merrily, merrily shall I live now
 Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.


http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80652/ariel-oil-painting-severn-joseph/

 

You are right, cut from a wall part of a nacreous shell and made from two (or more on some items) pieces, well chosen for shiny surface and convex shape, filled with a kind of gesso, join hidden by the ornate silver thin band

You may wonder how I know that...
Just because I once owned a similar battered and full of grime hatpin... and thought it should be a good idea to let it soak in luke warm soapy water for a while
That wasn't my most brilliant idea the parts separated because of the gesso melt, and the band was invisibly broken
That happened way before I happened to be into kyratisations... so I kept only the needle and trashed the parts

 

I managed to get some (4 or 5) over the years, but mostly silver and paste, rather than diamonds ones