Featured Finds Thread

I went to one estate sale today. I had 3 on my list but I had such a good time at the first that I burned the 2 hours I had set aside this morning for thrifting.

Everything in this house was priced to MOVE. Tons of goodies from a bunch of different eras. Madam of the house definitely was a collector and she liked her knick knacks. My share: A small velvet and wire hat with beaded leaves and tiny rhinestones modeled by my 4 year old. Purchased for $3.

Small white gloves with silver thread embellishments at the wrists and no stains for $2.

Black velvet gloves, came with a matching scarf. Newer design but never got to be worn as they still had a sewed on tag from original purchase. $8

This rope of seed pearls for $3

A small crab brooch with a smaller marking on the back reading “SPAIN” for $3

This carved dragon for $4.

A Kremetz cameo brooch priced at $10.

This bundle of corn cob holders which with the sterling handles should have probably fetched more than the $7 they priced them for. I don’t understand how they got overlooked.


And these coins from what was probably a bracelet for $3

 

Okay, am not going to ask the "mini price" you paid for that tiny gem (10 cm wide!!!), because, as a lover of old luggage, I am having one of my rare 'green with envy' moments and don't want to make it worse. Used to be that Louis Vuitton would check their archives if you had the serial number, don't know if they still do - but here is one with a bit higher number, described as "Early 1900s", sold at a Theriault's doll auction (scroll down for price realized): https://www.theriaults.com/miniature-firm-leather-valise-louis-vuitton-paris

~Cheryl

 

Y I K E S!!!!! and N I C E!!!!

 

Must be a salesman sample or a toy.
The handle is that big (and out of proportion to the suit case)because they could not make it smaller...to me!! (just my opinion!)

 

Thanks for the link!
I found one dating from many years ago, sold in France, with a higher serial number at 1000 euro.
The mini price was really "mini"! ;-)
We only found out it was a L V, when my wife was inspecting it while driving home.

 

A man's travelling stud box, part of a matched set of luggage? Any evidence there was once an upper tray? Think a salesman's sample would be made to scale.

 

@BMRT Love!!! that crab pin and the sterling corn on the cob holders! Can you get a closer, more focused image of the mark next to "sterling?"

 

Unfortunately that’s about as close as I can get it right now.

 

i agree salesman sample

 

Wowzer on everything!!!

 

I haven't seen one with a upper tray, yet.
It might just be a fantasy item.
The women we got it from said here daddy used to keep his cuff links and removable shirt buttons in it.

 

I.e., daddy used it as a stud box.

 

Awww! the hat is so beautifully complemented by the charming little face under it!
I love the cob holders too
Nice haul

 

Crab brooch is Toledo Ware and a nice example, too.

 

I want to visit BMRT and play dress up and eat corn on the cob like I am at Downton Abbey.

These are a few things from the flea market I serendipitously ended up at two weeks ago. First, the beads. The orange are marked Western Germany on the clasp, look like they were never worn, the blue are givre.

The brooch has open-backed clear beads

I love this brooch, a whole $8, for the cut and clarity of the glass stones. I am guessing Czech.

 

These are from a little flea market I sometimes visit. My jewelry lady was not there, but I found some goodies anyway. The earrings were all a dollar each, the sapphire and white sapphire are 14k, as are the little onyx earrings. The green earrings are jade, GF. The danglers, the yin yang, and the pearls are sterling. The MOP are alpaca, the little pendant needs TLC but was in a box of broken vintage jewelry I bought for $2. Probably 10 or 14k, diamond is real as are the seed pearls. The white danglers are costume, but will match my ivory and bone jewelry.

Ivory skull on sterling chain from flea market, $5

Flea market brooches 1

Above, the center piece is a pendant marked Czechoslovakia, needs a few marcasites, below, the green flower brooches are sterling, the Chinese export brooch is marked silver and the heart is jade, and the bracelet is GF with smokey quartz.

 

I do exactly the same thing.

 

I am LIVING for that ivory skull. The day of the dead holds a special significance in my heritage and skulls are a key representation.

If you find yourself in San Antonio, I’d be delighted to take you out to a flea market, an estate sale or a cotillion and I’ll bring corn cob stakes so we can enjoy some local roasted ears like true people born in the wrong era @Marko lol.

 

It looks legit, but dude misspelled his name (Tristam/Tristram).

Having done the same, I make no further comment.