Featured Finds Thread

it's beautiful , and a young couple like you could end up passing it on down to further generations......

& how do I know yer a young couple.........
let's say , u just learned a lesson about taking photos of a reflective surface !!!

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Haha you got me…

 

both of you....... ..

 

and you got lucky........ brown furniture is a slow market..... but that's a great piece !!!

 

It really is. But imagine someone selling a family piece like that. Who knows how long it had been in the family.

Debora

 

Selling?????

"My wife found this free FB Marketplace pickup...."

 

I need that kinda luck! (But where to put it.......oooh I'd make it work)

 

I could toss my nice bookcase...with stained glass .... for this

 

I have a library with 8 Ikea bookshelves....I think we know who would win. It wouldn't be uniform anymore but OH WELL.

 

Charity shop finds. I think the vibrant vase is Murano, some age looking at the base, £3.50. The etching by James Priddey was £4.

 

What a lovely hunk of glass !

 

Thanks Johnny, the cherry red hue shown in the pic doesn’t really do it justice. My brother collects mid century glass so it’s a nice cheapo Xmas gift this year for him.

 

Coventry Cathedral... So moving.

Debora

 

The vase was a screaming steal, but I have to admit my personal tastes run to the Coventry etching.

 

I’ve been to the cathedral and also met the widow of John Hutton, who engraved the angels. It’s a marvellous place.

I think that vase is Japanese and a nice one.

 

It could be Japanese, I found something pretty close but I wasn't completely convinced it’s a Murano piece.

 

Just a few things from the back flow. I now cant remember what I have or havent shown so if I repeat forgive me !
1st a 6 inch high Scottish vase. Ive seen these around but usually too rich for my blood. But this one was cheap and I like the look


Flow blue jug,I started a seperate thread on it

Fun MCM lamp.It was so cheap I had to,though Im lamp poor !

 

I haven't posted a find..in forever,,,,& usually....they ain't that hot !
This is no exception.....but I couldn't pass it bye....
I just happen to be in the area of my 2nd hand store .....so I went for a looky Loo...

About 10 inches..... nice selection of glass....and reasonably well made.... I didn't see a siggy... so maybe glass company...


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for the lofty price of $ 2.85 ......

I'm not a frog person........ but I've been a stained glass guy for a while now !

 

On another note.... while I was in the store a couple of large wood Makonde tree of life candlesticks caught my eye . 18 inches or better, I believe.
There's not that much carving of people , because of the candlestick nature of design...but holding them close , the carvings seemed rich and well proportioned .
They're dark...but not that black shoe polish dark , and they have both darker and lighter patches , which leads me to suspect they are older and made of African Ebony.
They are also not perfectly round....or shiny ..as a newer lathe made pair look like.

It's the older.... I'm uncertain of..... and hope they are around the 50's when they started to appear..... but I'll take 60's as well...

That said.....I didn't buy them until I could do a deep dive into such an item.... cuz I don't need them.... and they were $ 39.98 the pair.

Now I see lesser ..and newer ones.... for $100 each..... with some costing way less.... but again...for newer, smaller....and black wood or ironwood , rather than ebony, and searching for candlesticks .... I couldn't find that many like them.

I want to test out my new set of rubber......so I may just drive by there tomorrow.

We'll see if the mood strikes me....... as, they make an impressive display !

( they were behind the jewelry counter.... so you had to ask to hold them... so chances are good that they'd still be there...)

 

Going through the mountain of finds I've slowly picked up over the last few weeks (or more )... German edition.

Picked up this little German half-doll pin cushion. I can't decide if I want to keep her or not. I found another with the same cushion, so not a home-make, and found one without a bottom so you can see the "GERMANY" impression. IDK what year she is though...dolls aren't my area.



This is the second antique German beer stein I've picked up at a thrift. I guess they always think they're the tourist kind? Google Translate doesn't care for the word "Jaga" so I'm guessing "Hunter"? Merkelbach & Wick company, with impressed logo, and I actually found it in their 1921 catalog. When I bought it I thought it was probably a transfer, but on closer inspection...it seems to be hand-painted! I can't find another of this one, but a different image from the same line with similar condition issues has someone hoping for a 350 payday. LOL Any Stein collectors?