Featured Finds Thread

I don't suppose those earrings are clip, are they?

 

Just returned from a few days R&R in Southern MI. Didn't do much shopping but took a couple hours and hit 2 antique shops and one thrift store. Found just a few things worth showing and a couple not so much ..... LOL!

One thing I did not get photographed was a lot of approximately 10 Longaberger baskets from the late 80s that I paid $37.00 for at the thrift store. I haven't gone through them yet and don't even have them here right now. I am sure I'll do OK at that kind of price despite not nearly the demand there once was. Can't say I ever saw the appeal

At the same thrift, I picked up this 1928 Piper Heidsieck Champagne bottle for $3.00. Hard to say what this is worth. Lots of empty champagne bottles on ebay and some selling for decent money but none this old.


There was also this huge good-awful MCM yellow and white reticulated pottery lamp with a light up grass-cloth shaded center that I should have bought for $12.00. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending how one sees these things, it was too big to fit in our little car and be able to return with everything else we had.

At one antique shop I found this early Ruby Blenko vase for $8.00. It is about 6" x 6". Sorry for the lousy pic and I really should have cleaned it first.


Lastly, the best find was this candlestick at the other antique shop for $10.00. It is unmarked but unmistakably from the Marshall Field's Art Metal Craft Shop in their Hops Vine pattern. It may have been completely silver plated at one point or may just have a silver wash in places. A pair of these that look to be all brass sold at Treadway Toomey's for $375.00 just last month.

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/lotInfo.php?i=48257#.VhqtqexJZkg

 

love that candlestick!

 

I think that poor thing went to Micheal jacksons plastic surgeon ! I swear that's the same nose he had !

 

Nice candlestick, Brad. Peggy, thanks for the ID. OBB, if it's the planet earrings you're asking about, yes, clip.

 

Hi Brad,
I love those candlesticks also.
greg

 

Just out of idle curiosity, what part of southern Michigan did you visit? We just went to Allen.

 

I see Allen is not too far from where we were. We stayed just South of Lawton but explored throughout the area. Found Marshall to be a particularly interesting place despite the Honolulu House Museum being closed the day we were there. We were able to hit the Henry Ford Museum just outside of Detroit.

 

Too bad you didn't snag us any leather license plates. The museum wouldn't have missed a few, right?

 

Ooh. drg, if you list those earrings, could you let me know please?

 

will do, obb, but they are keepers for now

 

That I can entirely understand, I'd keep them too!

 

Hoo, I LOVE car boot sales. I picked up a bundle of old magazines for twenty pence today. Amongst them, I'd spotted a 2001 original souvenir brochure. It cost me two whole pence. I've just looked at what it's being offered for on Amazon.

 

My vehicles don't need boots.
They have tires....
(Not tyres) (even my phone didn't want to type that...)

 

My vehicle has a bonnet ,,,,,but she's a hot little number....so I let her wear it !

 

I never knew decks needed lids until I worked for Murray Motors Mercedes.

 

Just like roofs need shingles.....
but people don't need shingles !!!

 

Been there, had those in college. (always was a precocious kid) Trucks are all named Lori, too. And they roll all over some poor guy named Mac Adams.

 

Ha!!!
Lorry McCadams.