Featured Finds Thread

Here's a large 19th century Japanese vessel I bought a few weeks ago. Each of the four panels is decorated differently, for the four seasons. I've never seen that shape before.

 

Wow ! I love it !

 

Thanks Johnny

 

Swoon........gorgeous!!

 

I drove 200 miles today for this $5.00 purchase

 

Ouch, Terry!

 

It has great geopolitical significance, if little cash value. Once upon a time the Eighth Army considered it worth while to kick the Germans and Rommel out of Libya, and for a while under the slightly British influenced rule of King Idris, shops existed with boxes printed in English to sell this sort of thing to tourists.

Then Gadaffi took over and the rest is mostly downhill to the present.

So although the item is of modest value, it reflects a briefly civilised period in the turbulent history of North Africa, a region that in the period since the decline and fall of Egypt has never produced a stable state, although if Carthage had ticked off the Romans a little less, they might have lasted longer.

The objects just hang about, the history is in your head.

 

That is gorgeous and unsual, have you found anything like it yet? very neat!

jpg I would think those details would certainly up the price Very cool!

I hit one good sale and I was a few minutes late but not completely. I will take some pics in a few

 

That first comment is about Moons piece

 

This is a fun box lots of little nick nacks some german etc
I felt like Terry drove everywhere with nuthin....I hit 2 first day church sales and bought toys and new flip flops.....
Then I thought about the pictures in this sale, thinkin ahhh bunch of pricey stuff....not
3 guys running a estate yard sale, the leader kept sayin theres no women here lets move this stuff make piles....yes yes I did lol

I will lump some photos up there was a bunch, I saw jewelry go by me wah

 

The little wood angel is from Erzgebirge (Germany) and probably made by Wendt and Kuhn.

 

Thank you! I have had some similar before, love them. I bought a great big lot bout a year or so ago, long gone

 

I am wondering if this is a reproduction, looks like some really old ones I looked at...? Marked only China inside, dont think it's silver, I will test it

 

does test as silver hmmmm

 

sorry take that back not silver

 

Hi Sharon,
Can we see the mark China inside? It might tell us something.
Thanks,
greg

 

Thanks greg here's the mark

Book here's one thing, gotta hit swap this morn, then I'll post some more. Last week all I found at swap was tomatoes. Sad I use to find lots of good stuff there
Little Brumm sculpture