Featured Finds Thread

You never know ! It is Florida after all. Its 10 inches long.

 

Space Invaders or alligators! Maybe instigators?

My pix from this weekend. Finally hit some jewelry. :

Mostly precious metal. The pink dyed agate is on what I hoped was gold, but is just gold-filled. The brass spinner ring with Hebrew on it is the Shema. (Oddly I was wearing a sterling pendant with the same inscription, also in proper Hebrew) The big "silver" ring is high-class costume, and I'd think the pearl brooch is gold-filled.
The two brand new small frames (about 9cm across) are sterling. At the estate sale on Friday I scored 14k cufflinks and a Portuguese bracelet. The marks are so small I'll have to test it. The heart is 14k and jade, but tiny. The hoop earrings are 14k from Saturday morning. The blue porcelain mother/child is set in 10k. It was in a baggie given to me for free. The Bethlehem star isn't marked. The sterling and garnet cross was...$1. Most of the rest is sterling, either wearable or scrap. The napkin ring has some teenie marks I haven't looked at yet, but they have to be Portuguese.

 

People keep finding bags I’ve lost.

Johnny, that decanter is seventies Bormioli.

 

Thank you ! I love the shape.

 

I do like the garnet (?) cross. Quite an eclectic haul!

 

@johnnycb09 I completely agree, it is after all Florida!

 

Thanks. The chain was damaged junky costume, long since pitched, but the cross was worth nabbing.

 

Nice little find from the out of town thrift I hit a couple times a month. Have been on a roll there with sterling jewelry. Clip earrings by Navajo silversmith Tommy Singer (1940-2014). Only $ .79!

 

Over-scaled? Bet those are 1980s.

Debora

 

Not too big. 1 1/4" x 7/8". I would have thought earlier with the clips. Guess he only used these bezel set stones for a short while. Have not pinned down that time frame.

 

1980s earrings were big and heavy. All clips. But, given size, agree earlier.

Debora

 

I love the shape of these! Should be an easy sell.

Or really beautiful for a night out...

 

but ya scored on the artist.......... nice find !!!!

 

They could be 80s anyway; some earrings weren't the giant ones. Nice score!

 

Shape looks very eighties.

 

Dish from the jumble, £1, couldn’t leave it there even though I know they aren’t so popular now.
The heavy silver flower and antique cross pendant cost £10 each, a lot for me to spend in a Charity shop but will make nice gifts.
Everything else was fairly cheap, the gold chain is 18k plated but was only £1.50, the silver dragonfly brooch was £4 but the Ortak enamel pendant only 80p as were the onyx and maybe amber pendants. 80s earrings Trifari. Victorian brooch will become a pendant as its pin is broken, brass chain with RG clasp. Love the multicoloured glass pendant, hard to ignore anyone wearing that.
The blue stone pendant is probably glass.

 

The glass pendant is pure 1970s. Collectors here don't want them, but show them to GenZ and I bet they'd fly away.

 

Recent finds... 1st up was this MMA pin that for the briefest of brief moments I thought was possibly real ! But so pretty Im not terribly disappointed .



A 4x3 box I thought maybe silver but the only marks are 'made in Italy' and I think a 0 . I know,if it aint marked it aint silver but for $4 I took a shot. I need to get a silver testing kit.

 

Johnny that will look fabulous on you!

 

Johnny, very nice. Some of that MMA jewelry goes for a lot of gelt.