Featured Finds Thread

It is, but hopeful sellers routinely mistake it for hardstone. It is interesting to see one in a branded piece.

 

i found this 1963 431 page gun catalog on old guns and historical firearms bet rick from pawn stars would want this little gem

 

He probably wouldn't even give you a buck for it. . .

https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Museum...884802?hash=item2607e01b42:g:Ql0AAOSwqcJb1ceb

 

that book is in terrible condition , i wouldn't pay a buck for it either haha, still add in shipping and it's $32 US

 

i can give it out as a free gift on one of my gun scope or gun cleaning kit orders on kijiji or ebay , it has value to someone .or sell it for $12 and $27.50 flat rate postage , and still make a few bucks on it hehe it's the Ebay way nowadays

 

@KikoBlueEyes - lovely bit of IoW that. The other multi coloured one is a modern Chinese one, but they weren't cheap.

Charity shop had this as Scottish jewellery. It is not.

 

Same charity shop had these:

 

@Ownedbybear Thanks for the information about the perfume bottles. I love art glass and am so excited about having something from the Isle of Wight.

 

Those are very collectable. Michael Harris also founded Mdina and Kerry Glass as well as IoW Glass. I think they're lovely.

 

Very interesting. I’ll have to read up so
I know what to look for. Thank you very much.

 

Charles Horner?

 

Yup! I could see the Chester hallmark, too. 1912.

 

Somewhere in the hoard, I have a flyer from Charles horner from about that era. It lists the wholesale prices. A lot of the brooches and hatpins were sold by the dozen. I can't remember the prices but it was under 30s for a dozen hatpins or even under a pound.

 

Bazinga! Is the ID bracelet from Rochdale, Massachusetts or the UK? That "Silver" mark would make me wonder.

 

Spent $54 at a charity thrift today. The photo is low light and blurry, but.... Whiting and Davis black enamel evening bag, brass and glass made to look like Austro-Hungarian garnets, toggle heart sterling necklace, Weiss by D&E earrings, Milor silver and good question dangle bracelet, sterling bead bracelet and 14k white gold pendant. And a mock turtleneck, plain white. I didn't bother shooting the mockneck. The toggle necklace cost about $60 of the current metal value.

 

For Bear and the other Brits, I found a Huntley & Palmers biscuit tin the other day. It's pretty recent, but I've never seen one before, and it came with a Cote D'Or chocolate box for fifty cents. Kind of hard to miss!

 

30 Phyllis Street is in Manchester, UK.

Debora

 

Rochdale isn't Manchester, it's a separate town with a non Manchester postcode and its own council. The confusion arises because it's part of an administrative COUNTY called Greater Manchester, once Lancashire. I used to sell IT to a whole bunch of the councils clustered round there.

Ruth, it's a WW2 id bracelet, so if you got dug out from under bomb rubble, they knew who you were.

 

They had them here too, hence the confusion. Civilian dog tags.