Featured Finds Thread

I hadn't. This is the best shot I took. May have to try again in the daylight. The mark is 800 under what looks like a row of guys in funny hats.

 

The wriggle engraving was from testing the silver,can't help with the mark.

 

I don't see it listed; it looks like it ought to be a city mark, but it's not one I saw.

 

German - Karl Sohnlein & Sohne ? https://www.925-1000.com/Fgerman_marks_a1884_8.html

 

Oh well done once again, Bakers. That sure looks like a match!!

 

I just knew I had seen "the guys in funny hats" before. Just had to find them.

 

you must be having fun working on the watches

wow, great score anund I'd love to find a HBC blanket for that price

very nice kharrisma

 

Be still my heart. For those members who have been collecting for years, the thought of Haviland and Limoges on one mark isn't such a thrill. But for me not only to have found one but two plates with slightly different hand painted designs was magical. I know they are real, they have that wonderful, white translucency and the correct stamp.

 

I went to look a pre-estate sale today, got a few goodies. The lighting inside was the pits, when I looked at the Fireman helmet I thought a reproduction but when I got home I could see the maker mark inside. Also got a cast iron alligator cork press - didn't know it was for corks, found one that just sold in August, was listed for $650.00US, not sure what it actually sold for, Williams Sonoma France large hammered copper stock pot, (inside needs work), Villedieu France copper custard/sugar/chocolate pot (the bowl is 5"deep, the handle is short, 6 1/2"L), some sort of bronze (I think), non magnetic, gong, 16"W x 3"D.

 

That stock pot is a monster! Those were $500/600 when I used to walk into malls; there's no telling how scary they are now. And the fire helmet? Eep! If you sell that you'll have fireman-related collectors tipping over each other.

Thanks. 20th century Hanau marks makes sense.

 

yup, big and heavy, will be going to a friend, too big for me to make use of. I'm keeping the helmet for a bit, I've never seen one before, it is neat to have on the wall

 

My old neighbor was a retired fire captain. He'd have loved that thing!

 

Keep forgetting to post this— was given to me for free last time I was at Spitalfields by a seller who knew that my former workplace had to do with the Islamic world. Three Egyptian 1894 10 Qirsh coins in a pin, reign of Abdul Hamid II. Third lowest mintage in the series! It was pretty dirty when I got it, and the pin was bent, but it came up very nice IMO. Not quite sterling either (.833), but definitely one of my better finds from this rather trying year.

 

Yes, it is a very Javanese wood, also 'exported' to Bali.
These boxes are typical for the colonial period. Ca 1900 the Dutch began to promote Indonesian crafts. They financed the artists and craftspeople who had lost their Indonesian aristocratic patrons. The artists and craftspeople were encouraged to make objects for European and colonial use.
Projects were set up in places like Kota Gede - Djokja/Yogya silver, and Jepara - carved small furniture and boxes.
I have several of these Jepara boxes, including a correspondence box which was sent to my grandmother by a suitor in 1912. To no avail, she married my grandfather.

Jepara is now known for its multi layered carvings of scenes from Hindu epics.

 

This was an OMG!!! pick from $@vers on a Sunday afternoon for $6.99+. Fairly certain it’s Merrimac, it’s 15-1/2” tall and a rare one. Haven’t cleaned it yet, it’s been drilled for a lamp and has chips inside the mouth from the lamp cap. Just need to get up the nerve to separate the retailers label from the partial label underneath without damaging them further. I’m still in shock that this was there since yesterday afternoon.

 

Congrats! Looks like quite the haul.

 

thanks Joe

wow anund, that is a great score, I love the colour good luck on separating the labels (I'd be too chicken to try)

 

NOT the saver I go to!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nuttin' but mostly 'crappe' 'round here!!!!!!

 

DITTO!!!!! BUT, happy for you Anund!!

 

@evelyb30, that's a small mark which you might see better yourself with a loupe, but I did try to enlarge it.....I think the larger figure looks like a Dutch woman....and the others possibly children???? It didn't enlarge well.....

I think I've been asking too much of a program that I thought was going to REALLY enhance/enlarge images (they SAID up to 600X---yeah....right!!!!), where in truth....it might if you're talking PRO-photographer images that only need little enhancements!!!! NOT what we try to do here!! So, I've been disappointed so much in what the program is able to do....yes it can help, but not to the degree I was hoping it could/would do!! SUCH is LIFE!​