Featured Finds Thread

I do like Cheap. The pot is handpainted and made by Price Kensington.

 

What's the story on the bejeweled claw?

 

Hi OBB,
Great score on all of your goodies.
greg

 

Kumquatly...& no one has to get hurt !

 

OMGot!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Newer Scottish pin....
Lucky Grouse Foot Kilt Pin. Worn as a Kilt pin by men or as a Kilt pin or Brooch by ladies. It has been a symbol of luck for generations in Scotland

 

Kumquats
Cannot hear that word without bringing this to mind!

 

Thanks, Komo. I figured Scottish, but glad to have confirmation.

 

I do think that is where I heard that word for the very first time!
It amused me then and still does.
Thank you for it!!!

 

Yup, Scottish grouse claw. This one's about twenty or thirty years old, but I've had older ones. You do sometimes get Victorian ones with eagle claws, and you get both white metal and silver, real stones and glass.

 

Hahahahahaha!!!!!
You gotta love the shovel work too!
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Couldn't even make and show this today.

 

great finds bear, I love that silver box!

 

STILL laughing my ...... OFF!!!!!!!

 

And the price was right up my alley on those finds, Bear ! All of them enviable !

 

Nice finds! Like the vases.

I've always enjoyed W.C. Fields.
"Man (to WC): You're drunk!
WC: Yeah, and you're crazy. And I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy for the rest of your life."

More quotes:
http://www.mindspring.com/~hsstern/maewest/fields.htm

 

The Bank Dick is classic too!
I lost it in the ketchup/catsup bottle scene!!! :_

 

Nice spot of work, Bear! This weekend for me was a Jane Russell, to borrow an American bridge term. Big bust. The find of the weekend was a Rubbermaid dish drainer.

 

'Found' these while clearing my parents house... the dominoes measure 1x2cm each and the box is about 7.5cm long. Not complete unfortunately. I've seen lots of miniature domino sets on google, but only a couple that look like this (no ebony, red line in middle of each domino). Any ideas on age?





Also, a cameo ring... looks like two different metals - gold? Not sure.

 

The dominoes look like someone did them by hand, at least partially. The ring probably is gold; it looks like a bench jeweler made it. The shank is bar stock and factories didn't make them that way. Bench jewelers generally didn't work in gold-filled or plated stuff from what I've seen.

 

love those dominoes batman!
I picked up this little pendant today - 15 carat gold John Grinsell & Sons Birmingham 1901. I've never had a piece of mourning jewelry like this one.