Featured Finds Thread

Bwahahaha! LOL!

 

But it worked out. The guy does house clean outs, and mostly has the same jewelry over and over again, way junky. He has the jewelry resting on a folded up tablecloth, so I looked in the folds in the tablecloth to see if there was anything I missed. Yup, there was, a beautiful pair of 14k emerald-cut green tourmaline earrings, they cost a whole dollar. Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.

 

SWEET !!!!!!
Good eye Marko......!!!!

 

WOOT!!! And here I thought I was doing good to score some sterling and tourmaline Silpadas for a dollar.

 

Hi,
My favorite was a sterling silver man's ring with a red stone, paid 3 bucks. Had for almost 8 years. A friend bought a gem tester and was trying it out. I gave him the ring and it showed the stone was real. I laughed and said you paid too much for the tester. A few months later I was at the jewelry store and the jeweler said that the stone was real. He gave me 3 thousand for the ring.
greg

 

BINGO. White gold and a big honkin' ruby?

 

Hi,
NO it was sterling and marked but who knew about the ruby????????
greg

 

That must have been an old pigeon's blood Burma ruby....

 

Hi,
It looked like an art deco inspired man's birthstone ring.
Since there were no chips on it I figured it was not worn that much. I'll have to see if I have a picture of it.
greg

 

yes yes yes.........please......
u no ...if he gave you 3 grand it was at least worth double that !!

 

Wow!

 

Wow indeed! I have been looking for a nice Burmese ruby for years....and I realize the prices.... great find! I hope you still have the picture. Evelyb, the sterling Silpadas with tourmaline are a great find, too. That stuff is very popular here.... antique dealers say gold is nice, but their sterling is what sells....

 

They say that here, anyway...

I was looking through my picture files trying to see if I photographed them, no, but I did find one of my all-time favorite "finds"- a teacher angel. There was a set of two, the other was a vintage nurse angel, for $7 at a flea market, I just bought the teacher angel for $3.50.... shoulda picked up the nurse angel, never saw anything like either one of them since.....

 

Ryan found this in the dumpster at the thrift shop and asked me to ask about it ,it's 49" x 19 " and painted on a black canvas in acrylic , i think,thanks all .
EDIT there is a dot after the J it is a scratch above it, so i don't think it is an I, J. Casimir is what i read in the name

 

i found this other one just now on the net .

 

That's interesting african art...for a dumpster !!!

 

Yipes!

 

I'd say the style is his own....!
Nice find.....I think ?

 

Look closer...if you dare.....and you will see why I wrote Yipes!

 

what , go ahead king, give it to me , what do you see ?