Featured Finds Thread

Always nice to know.

Drat. Well enjoy them! For now..

 

Yes. If the knots are uniform & tight, someone doing it at the crafts show level or a good home crafter. Looks well done from the snippets we see. Color of bead cord a good choice for those beads.

 

They look uniform and tight to me. Its fun how you can know so much about something just by looking at how its constructed. Thank you all for your information, I don't feel so bad about yesterday's shopping after all.

 

The construction gives it away. That's a costume clasp, but the construction is really good. Those wires on the ends are an indication that somebody cared. That's a 90s lobster claw clasp on closer inspection. I could have sworn the beads had one of those weird 70s spring-opened ones.

For under five quid I think... home run, in American parlance! The coral looks like coral and the rhinestones look like rhinestones. (and the snozzberries taste like snozzberries?) Those Monet clips would be a fiver on their own in a charity shop, never mind the rest. Monet clips are the only modern clip-on earrings I can stand.

 

I have a huge Kirks Folly collection, mostly from the early 90s when their pieces were made in the USA and their work was guaranteed. Many of the pieces feature the matte gold look with aurora borealis rhinestones.

 

@evelyb30 - yup, under a fiver. Result. I like Monet, the clips are very comfortable. The wee coral one is, I'm sure on silver, although the spring ring isn't. It's charming. I've got to find one purple stone for those odd earrings.

@Marko - I've always liked matte gold. Even a cheapo piece looks expensive. Kirks Folly fantasy stuff is great, especially to me the geek.

 

I didn't know they had rodeo in Turkey

Lots of little bits soldered together

Tests as .800
Weighs a pound five ounces.

 

Guys who need to advertise are universal!

 

WOW!!!!

 

A pound of 80% silver for four bucks, or eight if they priced each buckle half separately... for once someone saved at Savers!

 

Monet is more unsaleable than something with no name

 

Terry is alas correct - I call Monet "No Mo-nay" for just that reason. Well-made costume with little resale. Coro = No-go and Avon = Nayvon. Napier = Nope-ier. Unless it's really old, from a special line, or made of sterling it doesn't go for much even though it's signed.

 

The only thing that one can do, if one acquires it cheap enough, is to sell it in lots. People do still wear clip earrings and look for them. Put goldtone items together, slivertone items together, separate pierced from clip.

 

More of my new additions in the following thread:

Share your vintage postcards here!
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/share-your-vintage-postcards-here.14260/page-18

 

Blingy clips do sell rather well.

 

I visited the Corning Museum of glass (amazing!) and on the way back visited an antique store in Owego. As usual I shopped for what I like and figured I would research later. I don’t think these are amazing finds in terms of value but I’m pleased. : -) I actually use my antiques around the house.

book is a first addition but likely valued at only slightly more than the $4 I paid. I still like that it’s first edition.

I love the blue vase and would like to get a little bit of a better idea of date. $10 because it was pretty and worth that to me, not sure value.

A lovely Wilton cast iron trivet. May be worth a little more than the $4.50 I paid.

A Sylvac 475 pitcher, post 1937. Many examples available online but I have yet to find an example in dark green. I absolutely love it so I paid a whole $8. : -)

A little yellow bowl I love but need to look up. 1950’s?

 

Nice collection!! Unusual pitcher too!!

 

Found this Favilla uke at the local goodwill (just reopened!) yesterday for $10. Made in the US in the 50's...cleaned it up, it sounds great...just needs new fret dot inlays.