Featured Finds Thread

First I love that Juliana pin.
I will keep the name of the doll in mind from now on. Thanks for the tip and sharing your photos.

 

I don't normally like dolls, but those are lovely.

 

I had a curio cabinet full, and even my husband's male friends, repair men, my brother and nephew, all stopped to look at them and comment on how great they were.

 

isn't that @Bev aka thelmasstuff , front left...??????

 

(LOL) THey used her for a model. Annalees creep me out most of the time, but the Santa/Mrs Santa ones are cute.

Just a few bits worth showing. Dunno who the dude is; he's a Wedgwood basaltware but the face is blue. The flower basket is in Italian 800 silver, but how they did the basket...? The chain is a chain. The fish thing may have a real Bolivian coin and may not. The earrings are sterling and onyx, silver mark but no signature.

 

Are we sure it's Juliana? Looking at the back I am not seeing any of the construction details I would expect

 

What I was thinking. The backs are all closed. No puddling. No figure 8s. ???

 

Maybe not....one open back stone, I thought the pin back was an indication. I have had Juliana without puddling or figure 8s. I will have to research. For a dollar, I am happy. Red is htf here. It was mixed in with Christmas pins.

 

For $1 I would have scooped that up, Juliana or no!

 

I don't think those V pin backs are Juliana. Beaujewels maybe.

I bet that blue basket is glass.

 

Here’s a few bits from Charity shops. The padlock was the most expensive @£4, I think the turquoises are real, pity about the rubbed gilding but I thought it would make a nice pendant. The 4 leaf clover setting needs testing. Little Egyptian filigree brooch. The bracelet may be Sphinx as the numbers look like theirs. The pearls and amber necklaces were £1 each. The silver amber possibly turquoise necklace was £2.50. The ring…..well it’s silver, the stone is magnetic and I think pyrites but I didn’t try it on and the subsequent pic shows the problem. I shall have to get the Dremel out.

 

nice haul.........gotta luv the 4 leaf clover......

 

The ring looks like a mounted iron meteorite. Here are some for comparison.

 

It does! Thank you, I hadn’t heard of this used in jewellery before.
I’m a bit concerned about trying to grind it down at the back now. I think that because it’s unwearable at present is likely the reason it was given to the Charity shop.

 

Stick it on a chain as a pendant. I'd agree on Sphinx. You need a UV torch. Centre of the Egyptian one will be gold. Pearls look like Honora.

 

Thanks, initially I thought the Egyptian brooch middle was copper as it’s quite reddish. The pearls are a pretty colour and a bit unusual in the wire stringing, I think it’s silver wire, the clasp is marked 925. Well worth a quid.
I’ve got a UV somewhere….buried under all the stuff.

 

That bit of meteorite is pretty cool. A lot of them are magnetized themselves, or start that way. Bet it's worth a few the way it sits.

 

It was a bit of a wrestle getting it off the neodymium magnet.