Featured Finds Thread

Hi everyone! I recently joined the forum and just spent the past 4 days reading this entire thread, which was a lot of fun! Some beautiful finds!

Now you can start in on the "Great Finishes" thread in the "General Discussion" category. There are more finds there that if you do this crazy business you may have never thought of buying.

Welcome to the forum!!!

Peggy

 

Welcome Jules! Hope you will post some of your goodies, we love looking at stuff
lol Komokwa.

 

You bet, Jules. Love your pink-and-white and yellow friends there!

 

Hi Bercrystal and cxgirl! I absolutely will post some of my finds! I just love the treasure hunt..it's so much fun isn't it? My husband thinks I'm nuts. My house looks like it belongs to Sanford & Son LOL!

 

Aaaaahhh !! My hometown !!! Love it !

 

Welcome!

 

This thing has the teeniest tiniest marks. I suspect it's French, but I need to dig around a bit.

 

I have to ask because I don't know... is it a clip? Like for a collar or shoe? Or...?
It's beautiful.

 

It's an old style belt buckle. Basically, meant for a fabric belt. I think it may have to stay with me.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... now I see!

 

Got some other bits today, as well:

 

Hi OBB,
Really nice haul you got there!
greg

 

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwww... all nice!
Love that little salt/sugar shovel and lemon fork (right?). No pattern? What's the white handle... ivory?
Those beads look like... carnival glass? The pendant thingie is... mixed "stones"? If the beads and pendant weren't so clearly attached, I would never have guessed them to be a match.
At least you can be sure that cross is of the Jerusalem type, right?
The golden leaf is beautiful.
Would you mind speculating about the ages of these pieces?

 

Wow, OBB ... what a lot of pretties you've got there!

 

the shovel and fork are delicious.....

 

My house is a tad Full.

Blue vase: Stourbridge, late 19th/early 20th.
The cross I think is 1930s or so, looking at the way it's made and the wear.
Haven't checked the hallmark on the wee fork yet. I'll go check what the knop is made of.
The brooch is made by ECCO, who I think stopped in the 60s. Rolled gold.
The square pendant is Aurora Borealis, by the look of it, and I can't remember off hand who that star mark is. The clasp is 60s, I'd think, so I suspect the whole thing is. Keeper.
The orange beads are probably Czech 1930s - they're on a gilt chain. Another keeper!

 

They're all so pretty, OBB!

 

I am a magpie. There's no help for it.

 

Cat-owned humans of a feather, to mangle a phrase.... The necklace is carnival glass, technically, rather than AB. I've seen the star before, but never been able to find out whodunnit. The Jerusalem cross could be any age; they've made them the same way forever. I'm trying to figure out the stone in the center. The ones I've seen are often amethyst. It's not eilat and doesn't look like turquoise.

 

Carnival, yes, I think that's spot on.

The stone on the cross is speckled dark and light green under a loupe, with some black and the odd fleck of gold. I don't think it's turquoise either.