Featured Finds Thread

Nice pot that!

 

Wowzer!

 

Those lamps are awesome !

 

For the first time in ages today I found actual jewelry jars. It was in a local thrift, not one of the big guys. Bought $50 worth. So far I have a few ounces of sterling and about 5g of 14k scrap. Chinese freshwaters to mess with. Bits and bobs for reuse. I've only gotten into four out of five so far, but I'm definitely ahead of the same. I even found a few Czech custard glass beads and some likely galaith/bakelite.

The icing on the cake so far is a necklace I was eyeing. The pearls are flaking, but it has a few nice wedding cake beads. The store wanted $10 for it, and it just turned up in a $10 jar.

 

Woo Hoo!

 

They are lovely but look so out of place with my Victorian bits in my 1900s terrace home.

 

I sat there tonight and sorted the last jar and peeled those pearls. They're now nice white milk glass insead of thermal-shocked old beads.

 

Would nail polish remover work to unpeeled pearls?

 

The kind with acetone does; it's a carcinogen but works wonders as paint remover. These were thermal-shocked, so a fingernail was good enough for them.

 

Yesterday's haul from the high-price eye-popper estate sale, plus the only two pieces from the jars I bought on Thursday worth showing. I bought those for the bits, and while there was some decent sterling it wasn't anything pretty. The pearls are dyed Chinese freshwaters. The rectangle is shell with three pearls.. and a 14k bail. Took a shot of the knife for @komokwa - pipe cleaner methinks. The outside has a 935 silver mark, so vintage German even if the rest wasn't marked Pfeilring Solingen. The plate is the question mark. British-made to look Chinese (sorta) or Chinese made to goof on the British "Chinese"?

 

Most of today's goodies. I left a green Blenko jug out in the trunk along with a pair of ceramic horses. I hit two neighborhood sales today and a church sale. One good sale at each. The first was right here in town, where I found some Johnson Brothers plates to replace my grotty ones. And the rocks - a geode and an amethyst specimen.

In the next town over, the first sale I hit.. homemade cookies! No jewelry to be had, but... the Blenko piece mentioned, a Longeberger basket, the Wedgwood pitcher, and an engraving called The Mail Boat followed me home. (signed Phillip Kappel) $12 the lot. The rest of the neighborhood was a waste of gas.

Then the church sale. I went for the church tag sale at a "festival". Said sale was a bust. Spent a whole dollar on nothing remarkable. Then at the festival was a food pantry fundraiser sale. $25 later... Some little gold-plated sterling earrings (oh well), two inlaid sterling necklaces, some tear-apart bracelets and... 14k screwback earrings. That weigh about 10g. At that point my MS had had enough and I came home.

 

Is that fire opals on the larger necklace ?

 

I like the necklaces....and the knife ...a gentleman's manicure set........but, I've seen pipe smokers use the spoon and short blade to ream a pipe bowl....

boys will be boys !!!!!!


https://www.ebay.com/itm/2668451658...W7TG8A&hash=item3e2136192f:g:FjYAAOSwwe5mOq-G

 

5 thrifts,2 garage sales later this was my haul. It was too damn hot to be out,but apparently nobody thought so as they were all packed !
pretty little Fenton egg

 

Love the pearl brooch.

 

I missed two community yard sales due to having Covid again. Apparently two new mutations are going around. First the concussion, then Covid. I don't want to even think about what the third thing could be.

 

Ugh. At least you're safe from feline distemper!

Probably a synthetic. Real opals are a bear and a half to cut that way, so most folks who do inlay use the synthetics. They're more stable and come in flat pieces that can be cut at will.

Somebody didn't have their 40x out when they wrote that auction. THe mark on mine is 935 and no mistake. I can imagine the knife being used to scrape the bowl. The spoon... since the 70s the mind goes elsewhere!

...except it's a pendant.(LOL)

 

"The spoon... since the 70s the mind goes elsewhere" and is probably the reason my mind doesnt work so well now ! Ah glorious misspent youth .

 

I thankfully wasn't old enough and had to miss the 70s. Also most of the 80s, at least the illegal parts.