Featured Finds Thread

Collection.......hoard......who can tell when one turns into the other !!
Hahaha!!!!
Nice finds Evely..!

 

As some of you may know, I collect / hoard (semantics ) DeVilbiss perfume bottles. This company was originally located in Toledo, Ohio where I was born & raised which is why I started looking for them in the first place. They actually made just the hardware for the atomizers & purchased the bottles from a multitude of different companies.

We relocated to Columbia, SC almost 29 years ago & we now consider this city our home.

Well this listing was among the listings ebay sent me about a week ago as part of my favorite searches.

ANTIQUE GREEN CUT TO CLEAR GLASS PERFUME ATOMIZER FROM DRUGSTORE IN COLUMBIA S.C.

Imagine my surprise when I clicked on the listing & found this bottle.



DeVilbiss c.1910 atomizer with a Bohemian green cut to clear bottle sold at Thomas' Drug Store which was located on Main St. in Columbia, SC.

Peggy

 

I hope you got it! Kinda follows your life story, eh?

Very cool!

 

I hope you got it! Kinda follows your life story, eh?

I am sitting here looking at it as I type this message.


Peggy

 

I think there were, not that anyone particularly wanted one. The V pins do turn up. Sometimes they look like initial pins, but if they're WWII pot metal odds are they belonged to someone named Mary or Morticia. They turn up in gold plated styles, enamels, sterling etc. I'm still watching for a bakelite one.

 

@evelyb30 there was a screw-back earring I thought was a Victory piece - was the V with a candle - have you seen anything like that? they wanted $20 (only one earring) for it so I passed seeing your piece made me think of it.

 

I'd have run the other way at that price. That's probably what it was, but unless it was a gold earring that $20 for one earring...no thank you. I pay a max of about $5 per pin, although antique store charge a lot more.

 

Here are some of my finds this past weekend at one estate sale (the only place I went).

Hardcover book: The Children's Hour, illustrated, selected and arranged by Eva March Tappan Vol. 1 of 15 (Houghton Mifflin & Co. 1907) 520 pp.

Hardcover book: Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. Service, (Barse & Hopkins 1909) 137 pp.

And four (4) editions of a large (13"h x 10-1/2"w) format "magazine" for musicians and music teachers. The covers are nicely done (illustrated and in color), and the classified advertisements in the back of the magazine are worth reading for a sense of a by-gone era ---

"The Etude" (Presser's Musical Magazine), July 1921, pp. 425-488 which includes pages of sheet music. Printed on cover is a price 25 cents/$2 year.

(The Journal of the Musical Home Everywhere) "The Etude" (Music Magazine) January 1932, pp. 1-76 which includes pages of sheet music. Printed on cover is Price 25 cents.

"The Etude" (Music Magazine), March 1932, pp. 153-228 which includes pages of sheet music. Printed on cover is Price 25 cents.

"The Etude" (Music Magazine), July 1932, pp. 457-528 which includes pages of sheet music. Printed on cover is Price 25 cents.

I also got two WWII hardback books and another hardback book with lots of photographs about long-ago (starting in the 1800s) college life and a CD of popular music from the 1940s.

All of my above purchases amounted to $7.00.

 

Wow, YourTurn... are they keepers, or... will you flip 'em?

 

@bercrystal

Nice find, I'm guessing you didnt have to pay a DeVilbiss price for it either

 

I was so tickled to find those "Etude" magazines. I know they will at least be kept on/in the piano bench.

The two hardcover books I will be reading and the "college" book I hope to read after DH looks through/reads it.

DH will be reading the two WWII books.

 

What are the WWII books?

 

KingofThings, the two hardcover WWII books are:

The Last Battle (When U.S. and German Soldiers Joined Forces in the Waning Hours of World War II in Europe), by Stephen Harding, Da Capo Press (Member of the Perseus Books Group) (2013). (It has 16 pages of B&W photos of the time.) There are 213 numbered pages.

The Good Nazi (The Life and Lies of Albert Speer), by Dan van der Vat, Houghton Mifflin Company (1997) (First US Edition). (This book also has 16 pages of B&W photos of the time.) There are 406 numbered pages.

Just curious, KingofThings, but have you read both or either of these books?

 

They both sound quite familiar either in that I've seen them or I could've had them.
Odd that I watched; The Good German with Blanchett and Clooney last night.

 

I've been known to collect ruptured ducks and have a dozen or so in a shadowbox in my bedroom. The books sound interesting. I might have grabbed them too. I did get into Savers on Saturday, but skipped the books. Couldn't have hauled them anyway; the MS is cranky and was getting crankier among other problems. I did however pack out a Lee Sands lion necklace, a cast bronze rhino strung on fluorite and amethyst, a brass bracelet with mystery stone, a Navajo narrow cuff bracelet, and two contemporary sterling ones. Two bead/stone donor necklaces aren't shown. A lot of their silver is really overpriced, but the Navajo piece wasn't marked with anything; they had it for three bucks. Now if only it had been unmarked gold....

 

the navajo one may have some age to it.
Fred Harvey era....possibly earlier...???

 

My GW has a single brass ruptured duck bookend for $20.
Want it?

 

Evelynb30, I really like the Navajo narrow cuff bracelet.

I also like the cast bronze rhino (but golly they are scary creatures in real life).

 

I wouldn't want to mess with a rhino in real life. Wino either.

I've got too much junk as it is. Besides, as a descendant of a long line of grunts, I wouldn't know what to do with Brass anyway besides salute it.(LOL)

 

Ha!