Featured Finds Thread

Sadly, no signature just little scratches which thankfully haven’t cracked her.

I may make a trip to a jeweler once I’ve established myself in the area and get her put on a setting or something.

 

I think the best thing I can get around here for six dollars is a bottle of gas station wine.

 

Ah, I do miss Trader Joe's. Three buck Chuck!

 

Butterfly wing trays and plaques were staple items brought back by merchant seamen many years ago. I could walk into a house and seeing one of those would ask "was there a seaman in your family"? Quite often people were suprised I could suss that out. Brightly coloured souvenir cushion covers were another clue, usually from North Africa.

 

Not a pendant I would wear, 375 on the bail, came on a plated chain. I having a heck of a job digging out the cement stuff the crystals are stuck into. The earrings are faux pearl but again 375 marked on stems and wingnuts. The pearl double strand has a 925 clasp also marked JKa. Total cost £4 from charity shops today.
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Stick it in acetone, that will get them out.

 

Thanks, I will, there's tiny crystals popping out everywhere using a craft knife.

 

That cameo is gorgeous. I would make a pendant out of it.

Beautiful, Houseful.

 

Finds from this weekend. The first two are from an antique mall I never visited. The jet beads were $3.50, the freshwater pearl coils were $6 for all.


The the freshwater torsade and the rose quartz necklaces are thrift shop finds, $4 each.


Czech glass carved bead necklace? 14", $2, thrift shop.

 

Stuff on a plate. The sterling rosary was in three pieces, I put it back together, $2, estate sale find as in the sterling marcasite brooch, $4, and the Czech? glass earrings, $4. The sterling pendants on the left were from a thrift shop, $5 a piece, the abstract one is heavy. Thirft shop pins, $3, I love when I find rose and pearl pins, my birthstone flower and gem.
The pitcher is signed M. Shea. I don't know if this is an old handpainted piece, $3, estate sale.

 

The teardrop pendant looks like lavender jade.

 

Thank you. That didn't even occur to me, I was thinking calcedony.

 

abstract one ???

 

GORGEOUS!

 

The one on the far left. The purple jade is probably dyed; otherwise some that color would be set in gold.

 

Next to the purple jade.

 

ya, on closer inspection, I see it now !

 

Marko, I have that frog. 1980s made by a company called Cabochon.

 

Can’t see the pic , can you re upload it ?

 

That section of this thread was created over 5 years ago, Emmanuel.