Featured Finds Thread

Wonderful jewel finds. My fave is the snake ring, too. How to you get invited to a house all like that?

 

Napier was known as a jewelry maker. That said, they were a Brass City (Waterbury, CT area) company, so I shouldn't be surprised they made other small metalwares.

 

I had no idea they made other things.

 

The owners were talking to someone in our Antique Dealers Association asking about glass and jewelry. He only does primitives so he said "You should talk to Marie!"

 

(LOL) Love when that happens!

 

Hey all, new here today and am about to start reading this thread...
and I just realized it's 1492 pages long. LOL
See you again in a few weeks!

 

@Revenant Welcome and enjoy!

Linda

 

you read everything here....and you'll be able to teach ' us ' things !!!!

 

I’ve only read the jewelry thread in its entirety

 

Lovely little Opaline vase


Reed and Barton silver compote

 

Johnny I love Opaline I have one vase that I inherited that I treasure.

 

Ive got a tiny bud vase that was my grandmother's.I dont think Ive run across much in the thrifts. I love that blue,almost like Tiffany's .

 

I feel lucky if I find quilt fabric with that color in it, never mind glass.

Speaking of lucky finds; IIRC I'm about $5 deep into this lot. Went to the ReStore and found some costume marked cheap. Bought some earrings mostly, including sterling screwbacks, faux pearl screwbacks with sterling findings, and a little pair of cultured pearl screwbacks with 14k white gold findings. The butterfly is Catherine Popesco with the nameplate missing. The sterling other than the screwbacks came from a local senior center thrift. I've cleaned the bracelet and ring since. The turquoise is NA and signed. The silver was all either $1 or 50 cents!

 

Well now you make me want to revisit our ReStore. Last I went it was all furnture at x3 it's worth...

 

I had a particularly good weekend thrift after weeks of enh. Expensive designer leather weather work boots, some studio pottery I could identify, bits and bobs I actually need... but the best was what appears to be a 5616c Blenko vase in charcoal...



...and at the same GW thrift, I found a very unassuming box marked $3. Opened it up to find it marked for a local fine jeweler with 14k box chain and 10k marked heavy 3/4" gold charm. Glad I brought my loupe that day!



My GWs never sell jewelry of any kind. Even costume goes to the internet store. I guess the workers at mine thought it was costume and couldn't be bothered. First time finding gold at costume prices in an in-store thrift, ever.

 

good 4 U.... opening boxes....!!!

someone was asleep at the switch , missing clearly marked gold !!

 

They saw the enamel on the junky-looking pendant and didn't look further. I wouldn't have even bothered with a loupe. With the oval-ish cartouche and soldered ends it was at least gold-plated sterling. My Ill Will doesn't get jewelry at all unless some slips in on a Target pallet.

The ReStore doesn't generally sell it either. The lady was asleep at the switch again today. Royal Doulton Smooth Fox Terrier figuring, last produced in 1960, for $2.50. No chips or glue. She probably didn't see the one for sale on eBoo with a goofy price tag. No solds; I think the real price is around $100, but even so.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/175963584395?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28

 

Yes, the enamel is terribly done imo and the image is tourist tat. It also had rectangular price sticker residue on the back. What stopped me was it looked like it had never been removed from the box, and the box had a local fine jeweler printed on it...but just the surname with no qualifiers like "Xyz Fine Jewelry" to tip them off. I thought the chain looked gold and checked it. Italy 14k. I didn't even bother to check the charm until I was in the car, because I thought it was added on and not gold, as the quality was so meh. But in the glue muck was 10k clearly marked!

I can understand why it got to the GW. If I'd opened that box to tourist junk I wouldn't have worn it either! Looking at similar I think it must have been around $400 or so originally. I can't imagine paying that for this.

Not sure if I'm keeping the charm. I thought about wearing it backwards! Maybe wearing it ironically with layered pieces?

That terrier is beautiful!! That's not really my thing normally, but I would have bought it and at least made it a gift if it wasn't worth much. That's a great score. Now my husband is going to wonder why I'm demanding to try the restore this weekend!

 

Might as well. That's the same store that sold me an, admittedly thin, neodymium glass vase for $10. I wasn't sure it was legit in their lousy lighting either, but it was indeed.

 

Wowzer!