Featured Finds Thread

Saw this on a local auction site -- never seen one before!

 

leave it to Coke to have put their brand on just about anything...!

 

Only useful inside Pepsi bottling facilities?

 

I don’t go to the thrifts much anymore because I have way more stuff than I could ever hope to sell in my own lifetime but I did stop in to one today and picked up this nice Roseville pine cone vase.

 

you couldn't have left that sitting there anyways.....so...you now have one more thing.. !

 

I have a pine cone candle holder. (Never mind, you already said it's a vase.)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Part_6

Leonard Part 6 (also known as Leonard Part VI) is a 1987 American spy parody film. It was directed by Paul Weiland and starred Bill Cosby, who also produced the film and wrote its story. The film also starred Gloria Foster as the villain, and Joe Don Baker. The film was shot in the San Francisco Bay Area. It earned several Golden Raspberry Awards; Cosby himself denounced and disowned it in the press in the weeks leading up to its release.

The film was universally panned by critics and has often been considered to be one of the worst films ever made. It was also a box-office bomb, earning just over $4.6 million on a $24 million budget.

 

Now that you mention it, I almost remember that film. Not that I want to, given what Bill Cosby did, but don't remember much other than having no interest in it. Maybe they should have announced that it was directed by Alan Smithee and someone would watch it now? (a name plastered on things by the under-contract directors of films so bad an artist didn't want his name associated with it.)

 

Ha! It makes you wonder when you see a really bad film, how could all these people think this was a good idea?

But then again, sometimes it's so very very bad that it's good.

 

Yes, mine is a vase, the pictures didn’t really support that, I suppose! Is your pinecone item in the same color way?

 

No, mine is the blue-green colorway.

 

According to the British Royal Society, this is the earliest known engraving specifically of a squirrel (a French red squirrel), c1760. Image size about 7 1/2" x 6":

 

It was in the film?

 

Not a clue.

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Apparently a movie promo (1987):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/kt/4872845671

 

All those razzies make me want to see the film; it might fall into the so-bad-it's-funny category. Or accidentally funny. Laugh in the wrong places funny.

Alas probably not.

 

Camera based on the MINOX, the original spy camera.

Debora

 

I found this vintage rhodochrosite bead necklace in the antique mall.....it said "take me home!
Gold filled clasp. The beads are 11mm. Needs restrung.

 

I'll say it does. Poor thing was screaming "take me home and make me pretty"!

Speaking of things screaming "take me home" I scored some mystery candlesticks. The removable bobeche/protector thingies the same shape as the actual top seem to be silver over copper but very thick silver. I found a chip in the bottom edge of one protector with the copper showing through. The bases show no trace of copper. They acid/scratch test like silver. Finger/tarnish test that way too.

Weirdly, they're filled with what looks like plaster of paris and have very stained felt on the bottom. No marks to be had anywhere. The design looks Georgian-ish, but that means little. Sold to me as who-knows by a jewelry/antique dealer who doesn't always know what he's got.

 

those are lovely.....