Featured Finds Thread

Holy smokies!!!!

 

Interesting gizmo.

 

Oooooo. I once had a ServiceMaster biz. Went to a nice home in a nice area to see if I could get the cat pee out of the wood floor. Moved the 5k clouch and............

 

when I was a kid , my cat clawed the back of Moms sofa right through to the wood frame.
The folks chastised the cat , recovered the sofa and 8 months later it looked exactly the same as before .....with the wood frame clawed into even worse than before.

I loved that cat !

 

LOL - that's one reason I don't recover fabric furniture. Their royal furrinesses think nice new pieces are scratching posts.

 

Got this stuff, and more, yesterday at good deals.
>7" long green glass double chicken egg cup (hard boiled egg holder?) Perfect, only manufacturer's flaws. $2 Anyone know anything about it?
> 9" long Vee Jackson ceramic box with small chip inside and some things I found I can't clean off because the 'dry brush' technique is on the surface. $2
> Wiss flower shears. Virtually perfect in the box with instructions, display ideas and catalog of other items available. Zone 7 Newark, NJ. $1 (worth about 30 as found)
> 6" long PAL cap gun never fired. Not sure if it is missing its orange plug or not. $1
> next post > 'Strength in Service' pin (haven't found anything on it yet) and filthy group of Campaign ribbons which I haven't researched yet and they are likely old unless Vietnam is the one missing. $1

 

> 'Strength in Service' pin (haven't found anything on it yet) and filthy group of Campaign ribbons which I haven't researched yet and they are likely old unless Vietnam is the one missing. $1

 

Smooth, thick microfiber coverings work well with cats, but they don't make them very thick anymore.

 

The group one was supposed to be first....

 

I found this today. I posted another thread about it. I think it is Navajo sterling with some gold overlay and turquoise. I have not idea... it is marked sterling. Comments anybody? HELP!

 

There's nothing to signify Navajo & I don't recognize the turquoise....

 

KingofThings, I have an old pair of Wiss flower shears which I found at an estate or yard(?) sale 15 or 20 years ago. I could not do without them. They truly do not crush even the most delicate stem on a flower or greenery and leave all flower and greenery stems open and capable of taking in/absorbing water in a vase or other container.

 

I saw similar designs on Ruby Land while researching that were Navajo... and Navajo jewelry tends to be larger.

 

If you say so..

 

Sweet! Thank you!

They are literally like new!

 

The more modern Navajo designers use this construction. S. Ray is one- I have the necklace in this picture, but mine has gold overlay in sections. His rings are also similar to the one above in the design, not the stone.
https://www.google.com/search?q=s+r...XUkdiM97M:&usg=__hgXHd38Zy0aqitVrdMEjoj97n1M=

 

I've yet to see a Navajo mark his work with an electric pencil.

 

I don't know if it's navajo but the turquoise could be damale(sp) or a rare form of varicite, I forget the name.

 

and yet, the Zuni do it all the time. Wonder why that is?
sorry for the slight tangent here.

edit to say ... I didn't mean they literally always did it all the time ... sort of a colloquialism ... I meant that they often sign like that.