Featured Finds Thread

Was off today and made my happy way to two estate sales. Made off with some interesting knick knacks + some items I’ve picked online:

The top copy is from 1944, all pages appear to be present. Looking forward to reading this story as I’ve never heard of “A girl of the limberlost”. The bottom one has no date but I’m very familiar with the story and look forward to sniffing the pages like a weirdo.

More sterling picture frames

Enamel and sterling bracelet

Sterling necklace. The black enamel needed a tiny repair but I couldn’t pass up the style.

Definitely a new style with Larimar in sterling

This statement bib in sterling. No idea if these are a stone or paste but eye catching just the same.

And this antler set

 

Nice Haul !!!!!!

 

Oh, I LOVE "A Girl of the Limberlost", now I'll have to dig out my copy & read it again (for probably the 6th time). I hope you enjoy it!

 

It never ceases to amaze me the fond memories that pop up while reading on these forums. A girl of the Limberlost was a much better book than her earlier one called "Freckles", but if you like Limberlost you could certainly give it a try too.

 

I read both of those, eons ago. I wonder where my copies are?

 

@Ownedbybear - your copies will be in the last place you look for them - trust me I know that for sure.

 

@BMRT ....i find the lack of symmetry somewhat disconcerting....are you seeing repairs on the underside??

 

Oddly enough? No. Lots of little rings. It’s not symmetrical in many areas not just the tear shaped random gem.

 

View attachment 220740 This statement bib in sterling. No idea if these are a stone or paste but eye catching just the same.

I totally fell in love with this necklace!

 

They had no idea of his military past.

 

Must have been a thing way back when. My dads father served in WW1 and until a few years ago no one ever knew ! I found it on a genealogy search . My aunts swore I was wrong,till I printed out the record of his enlistment showing his name,address and where his mother had to sign for him as he was 17 ! I also found several marriage licenses throughout the west under his name,but no divorces ! I didnt tell my aunts that part.

 

Most of those guys did not talk about their experiences.

It was probably a good idea to keep that part to yourself.

 

Still , there are things it would have been nice to know...
God bless my father...his stories were all from here...and he only mentioned that he was a private...
Only my digging showed him to be a sapper...and then after his passing I found a photo of him , and on the back he wrote...This was taken when I was only a Corporal. !!
It just seemed unfair that I was shut out of that part of his life.

 

what a kidder !!!

 

(LOL) Typical kids ... with the addition of being shot at. Guys back then were sometimes told not to talk about what they were doing during the War. A friend of mine, who died of old age, said he'd been in uniform but I didn't find out he'd been an Army Intelligence officer until reading his obituary. He must have been handling Classified or higher information and couldn't talk about it, and later was just in the habit.

My dad was EOD during the Korean war, but never shipped out. He never said much about the things he handled, except the times he was cleaning up after someone else's whoopsie. (Like dropping a bomb onto a reviewing stand that fortunately didn't go off. Wrong fuse.)

 

Probably not worth much, just interesting. Manufactured in Hollywood California. The design patent dates to 1939.
Virtually no info for the company on the googles.