Featured Finds Thread

This is why I like to say this job is like gambling. We're all waiting for that big score.

Even when you get that big score you are not satisfied, you want to get an even bigger score the next time. I have told the DH that just once before I get out of this silly game I would like to make a 5 digit score. I have had multiple 3 digit ones & several 4 digit ones, but I just know if I ever did it would make me want an even bigger amount.

Face it, we are just a bunch of addicts, but our fix involves flea markets, thrift shops, estate sales, auctions, etc.

Peggy

 

Hi,
I had a friend who bought a huge buffet from a church that was going out of business for 50 bucks. I cursed him very soundly since the dang thing weighed a ton. Solid walnut four inches thick on the sides. Dated from the 1860s. We struggled for several hours getting this beast up four flights of stairs to his apartment. Three years later he asked me to help him move. I told him out flatly I was NOT going to deal with that buffet. It was a beauty. On moving day the movers knocked the back off the buffet. What should be there but over 70 pieces of heavy sterling silver. Five large platters, two hundred pieces of flatware, numerous bowls and two goblets. The topper was a large sterling crucifix covered with citrines. No wonder why the drawers were only 8" deep and the buffet was 30" deep and 85" long. The stuff had not been touched in 75 years.
greg

 

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Great finds Davey !!!
Gotta love those fake cans..!
Maybe the owner was a Mi6 spy !!

If you find his many passports.....that'll notch it !!

 

Dreams are made of this.....

 

Hey Marko......what do you think of this.....

Open salt / caviar dish.....look familiar ???

 

Yes! I thought of salt dishes! Thanks I will probably stick pearls in them, though.

 

Davey, what a great score!

Bear, is that Christmas tree a brooch, or is it made to stand on the gold platform? I love it.

 

I think our treasure-hunting hobby is better than gambling.... I think we are way ahead of the odds gamblers face. While we do need some luck, we depend more on our skills and knowledge.

 

Marko, it's all one with the stand and about the size of my hand. Neat, isn't it!

 

I bought this in a $10 box lot. It had no marks at all. It sold for a little over $100. I think that box lot, actually 2 boxes, has brought me over $200 so far. Love it!

 

It's a bird!

 

Ha! I saw that immediately too and thought yarn art at $100+???

 

I didn't notice that. It looks like a penguin leaping into the water. lol

 

Odds are the church never knew it was in there either! No wonder that sideboard weighed a ton.

 

HA!!!!! BE STILL MY HEART!!!!! Such FUN!! Aren't we all waiting to hit the BIG FIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

O M G!!!!!!!!!!GREEN WITH ENVY!!!!

 

Ok newbie question...is this the ideal thread to post stuff we just happen upon? I clicked this thread on accident, I seriously thought this was about finding old thread I think my blonde is showing!

 

Yep. Post your finds here. If there are questions about them, you can always start another one elsewhere.

 

Well here goes....

A couple pieces I got out of one of our houses today, it's so filled up with stuff and so hot in there I actually just quit looking after about 30 minutes!