Featured Finds Thread

Yay CX !!!!

 

Is it heretical to say I'm not a Sascha Brastoff lover? Loved the rest though. .999 (i.e. Fine) silver? Dingdingding! They missed that one!

 

Beautiful pieces.

 

I found this goofy thing today. I will post it with more pics in the antique general discussion board. I am hoping a genie will appear soon if I keep rubbing it.

 

Silverplate with a wood handle? Wrong shape for Barbara Eden. Much as Komo and others might wish.

 

Handle is metal...yes, not silverplated...
Brass? Oxidized on the outside? Created a new thread on the antique discussion board.

 

am I seen here as that much of a horny toad ???

 

All women are beautiful !!!

 

& on occasion...I've been know to be a jerk !

 

Never.

 

Went to a moving sale today and I helped move on a bunch of jewelry. Someone else got the gold about two minutes ahead of me, but I got the silver and the Alexis Bittar bangles. I don't understand why people pay for them, but retail is $tupid money. I think the Tiffany pieces are legit for once; they certainly test as sterling although the fonts don't match exactly. The marquise-shape earrings are marked FAS and seem to be white topaz or sapphire or some such. The regular sterling stayed in its baggie but the Pandoras are sitting on a Pandora box. The red bangle is Angelique de Paris acrylic and sterling. There were some other non-jewelry pieces, but I figure I paid about 10 cents on the dollar original retail at most, and probably less.

 

Alexis Bittar prices people pay always baffled me, too.
Hit a antique mall combo eclectic stuff place yesterday. I always scour this lady's booth since she has great stuff she is just getting rid of. Thai 925, probably genuine junky diamond, $5.

The amethyst and pearl is GF Winnard, $5. Lenox adelweiss? $4, cross on GF chain is Lind electroplated, $8.

And this she gave me. Mimicking Bohemian rose cut garnets, it's glass. I have never seen anything like it, Googled for hours last night. I figure age to be 1920s-1930s.


I can't capture it, but it sparkles like crazy.

 

That’s probably Gablonz/Jablonec made glass. It mimics garnets and you even get pieces with a mix.

I picked up some Bittar earrings for a couple of quid once. Still on the website for over a hundred dollars!

 

I've never understood why anyone pays huge money for her plastic bits, but they do. I was charged $15 for all three, about top of the mark in my eyes.

 

Very nice!

 

I really like that red acrylic and silver bracelet. Never seen one like it until yours, and now I have googled Angelique de Paris and seen them in every color. I think I like the red the best though. I bet the light shines through it nicely!

 

It really is pretty when the light hits it. I'd seen glassware made this way, but never plastic jewelry.

 

In production less than a year circa 1925

Hoodwill pays for once

in with bits and bobs for two bucks
Good Will Agency
Two grams of 10K

Argus good for two grams too

 

Sigh....post on jewelry board.