Featured Antiquers: Share Your Favorite Purchase Of 2018

Hello Folks,

2018 is nearly in the record books. Please post your favorite purchase (or purchases) of the year and tell us something about it.

Now lets enjoy some eye candy!

 

This is one of the best finds for me in 2018, a set of eight solid mahogany dining chairs. They are Regency era from the 1820s. I picked them up at a goodwill for a steal!! I did sell them online for 4500.00.

 

It was a year of getting rid of stuff for me. But I did buy some prints (maybe too many). This is a favorite called "The Old Mill" engraved by John Cousen (1804 – 1880) after a painting by Meindert Hobbema (1638 – 1709) (image size : 8 3/4" by 10 3/4"):


And this biscuit tin (2 1/2" high, 4 7/8" long) patterned after a snuffbox in the V&A:

 

My favorite has to be this wood block. Not because I really liked it, but because how much my friend did. It was one of his family's Hanukkah gifts this year - the Queensboro bridge of 59th Street Bridge Song fame.

 

Beautiful chairs, great find, and great price you got for them!

 

Mine would have to be this enormous Riihimäki vase - cut/engraved by Aimo Okkolin in 1946.

Haven't wanted to let it out of my sight so it's been keeping me company in my office since I found it in April. (There's a thread on it in the glass forum if you want to know more about it.)

 

It's been a year of don't buy this & don't buy that...so I have no new treasures to speak of.............. that said I got married....so I bought a ring for her.... only two ever made...& the other is in London , with a diamond instead of a sapphire.
My best purchase this year.......

 

The best treasure of all, I'd say. Congratulations!
And a lovely ring, gorgeous cornflower blue.

 

Where is yours, Joe?

 

Considering I haven't been actively purchasing this year except from a select few people, I think I still did ok this past year. One of my favorites would be this Theresienthal Glassworks .5 liter beer stein with a cut star and thumbprint design.



The best part about it is it's a 20 year service mug from 1892 inscribed to a Lt. E. Mayer.

 

Congratulations Komokwa!

Lovely ring! Love the blue!

 

Very nice to see these goodies. I didn't buy anything to show as my place is filled to the gills.

Congrats again Komo.

 

So hard to keep it to a short list!

1. Rookwood Pottery Box - I just love the oriental look of this piece and I got a great bargain too.


2. Large Roseville Blackberry Vase - One of Roseville's most desirable patterns with collectors, most pieces of Blackberry are small and the large pieces such as this one are scarce.


3. Postcard Lot (approx. 1000 cards, not all pictured) Probably my best "deal" of the year and I really enjoy studying the images and organizing my growing collection/hoard.

 

I love it too. And the dragon seems to be holding a few boxes of its own.

 

the best pick of 2018 of mine is Japanese Hirado Komainu/Foo Dog Circa 1900-1940s

 

I noticed it in your avatar picture, it is gorgeous!

 

yes,this one become my most favorite one of all my collections,fall in love with it,

 

For me it was my Seibei Komai box. I was very happy that I was able to help it find its way back home. Sold back to its origin, Japan.

[Edit] I nominated @komokwa for best find of the year.

 

Wonderful!

 

Whoa Congratulations! Hard to top that for sure!

I've been trying to eliminate and organize this year so I've not purchased much. I'm trying to move and organize things differently so I can put down new flooring. It's a slow go.

I did pick up this little birds-eye maple piece that I couldn't resist. It has what I guess are evil swan heads though look rather like angry snakes.