Featured Finds Thread

As my dad used to say, one day chicken and next day feathers. You never know!

 

Went out to another estate sale today and picked up a few items.
Got a vintage metal recipe holder that hangs on a wall instead of sitting on a shelf.
Reminds me of the old metal kitchen canisters from the 1960's in design. Got a blue milk glass compote PV I think. If I can't sell it, I can keep it as part of my collection as I love blue glass and have a lot here, but not this one.. Got some plain little glass bottle containers NOS that people use to hold either spices while some others use them for holding crafting supplies.

Then went to a local Temple White Elephant Sale just down the road from an estate sale and picked up some super neato LOL atomic glassware in a pattern I had before that sold well fairly well. And got some barware glasses, that I thought might be Culver, but I can't find the pattern anywhere. I know some Culver Glasses are not marked. I may post in a different thread some pics (when I take some pics) so maybe someone here will know if they are Culver and if yes what pattern or what other co. may have made them.

 

pearlsnblume - looking forward to seeing your pics when you post them for ID. I've been pushing myself to learn (it is a big and difficult push) to sit down and really focus on some areas of glass I just don't know. Yesterday I spent about an hour and a half researching Paden City Glass, some very pretty and interesting glass. And all of the sudden I was like, hey wait a minute.. I have the kitchen set I was looking at on my computer in my (unlisted) inventory! How fun. I feel an itsy bitsy smarter.

I made it to my favorite thrift today. Got some nice Wedgwood pieces, a good MCM Georges Briard glass Cocktail Shaker and Stirrer ($3.00), 12 early clear Fostoria plates I need to ID ($12.00) and an interesting 925 Mexico bracelet that may be Bernice Goodspeed, but I need to look check further to confirm. I forget some of what I found today and most everything is piled away in inventory land already (scary, fun place), but I did take a picture of this pretty treasure to share --- an enamel piece from J. Betourne Limoges. When I saw it was signed, I thought it might be interesting and it may worth more than the $7.00 price tag. Seems so. Someone will be happy with the heart shape.

Have a nice evening, ya'll.

 

The heart shape is unusual.

 

I'm sure this doesn't count or belong here but this is what is my "find" of the day - in my light fitting! does anyone want him? he's dried and crispy and has 10 legs...

 

Well, I might take him, considering what it has done to my desire for breakfast................I'd name him Weight Loss Spidey.......and you would have to include Ant that Ain't ..................

 

Hi,
With my aversion to spiders, I think I might have gotten the "shakes" and dropped the shade. Spiders are the only thing that I am scared to death except for Komodo Dragons.
greg

 

This is a camel spider - or scorpion spider and it's the only animal that makes me jump up on a table and scream little a little girl. It's not harmful but it's ugly as hell, and will actually run after you!
Maybe I can gold plate it....
Do you get many Komodo dragons near you???

 

Hi,
OMG a spider that chases me. I am not good for today. No Komodo Dragons do not live near me. I was in Java and went to see them in the wild. I had nightmares for weeks. A month before two people were camping on the beach and disappeared. I always went swimming in the ocean at night and never had a fear. Then I saw "JAWS" and no more night swimming for me.
greg

 

Though not as ugly as a potato bug.

 

I've never seen Jaws but it had just come out and I knew about it when I had finished my service at Pearl and had to take that long MAC flight back to California.

 

Hi KoT,
I took my son and two little sisters to see Jaws. They were scared at parts, I was terrified and could not wait for the movie to end.
greg

 

I bet!
All I need to do is drive.

 

Here is one of my finds. I posted it in the glass section as well for help with an id so if anyone knows who made it or the pattern name, I would love to know.Got several of them.
These are barware glasses maybe Culver? Maybe not.
But not signed or marked. Oy I can't find this pattern anywhere.
LOL
I'll put pics here as finds to stay in the rules. Thanks

 

That spider gave me the willies. I hate bugs.

 

https://www.925-1000.com/mx_bernice_X.html
I'd love to see that bracelet!

 

I was buying a demi-lune table that folds into a round table. I asked the salesman: "This looks a bit unstable. Do you think the legs will break if the table accidentally gets moved / dragged two inches back and forth on the floor?" (What I meant was if I bump into the table I don't want to hear a cracking noise.)
And he replies: "Depends on what it's used for. If it's used as a usual, normal table, it should last."
At that point I started giggling and all sorts of images flashed through my head. I guess he realised that and decided to give an example of something that might break a table: standing on it to replace a bulb. Well, that too.

 

Hi Pearls,
That is a Culver glass if I remember it called "Egyptian" or 'alligator" or something similar.
greg

 

Oh, heck... All that talk about SPIDERS made me think of MY biggest fear: REPTILES! Oh, how I HATE them! (Spiders & bugs don't have the same effect on me...)

I may have posted about this before. If it sounds familiar, please just skip ahead!

Snakes, in particular, make me physically sick. Once upon a time, I was actually okay with them - as long as they stayed away from me. Over the course of several years, however, they made my "no way" list!

First, when I was a kid, I was running down a hill in our yard with my "next younger" sister, Kitty. She screamed, and just as I looked over at her, a live toad hopped out of the mouth of the snake she had stepped on. Eww, eww, eww! The incident did her in (on snakes) for life, but I still had a ways to go...

Next, I was a teenager, working as a camp counselor at the ritzy day camp I'd gone to as a child. My "group" was a bunch of young boys, and we were building a fort up in the woods. I had brought along some "yard tools" and was hacking out a clearing. The boys were collecting what I'd cut and moving it aside.

A little boy named Jeffrey called out, "C*****, what's this?" He was holding up a 9 or 10 inch piece of something...

"Oh, wow, Jeffrey," I replied. "That's half a snake!"

"What happened to the other half?" he asked.

OMG. I could have screamed, fainted, or maybe even run off and left a couple dozen little guys just standing there in the forest.

Instead, I very calmly gave a spirited talk about the regeneration of reptile parts. (Heaven knows how I did it!)

I also then dissuaded dear little Jeffrey from taking the half-snake home to his Mom. (Can you imagine his poor mother emptying out his backpack that evening? Wet bathing suit? Check. Wet towel? Check. Half a snake? OMG again...)

In short, we had a little burial ceremony at our future fort-site for the poor snake's nether half...

I actually shook in the car going home that evening.

Last, but not least, was my HABU encounter c.1980. DH was on an assignment in Japan and happened to be in Okinawa for part of it. I had arranged to visit for a week during the Okinawa segment.

I think that the first thing I heard when I landed on Okinawa was, "Beware of the habu!" If I recall correctly, the habu is a type of viper... (I'd look it up, but any source would probably include a photo of one, and I don't want to see it!)

There were signs all over the place, all showing a number to call if you happened to be bitten by one. Eww, ewww, and ewww again!

So, DH had some time off, and we went to an island "resort" - rough, to be sure - not really a resort, by MY estimation...

The very first time we tried walking from our little "resort cottage" to "the beach", a HUGE habu slithered across the path in front of us. (As I remember, it was 6' long, which probably means it was 3'...)

That habu was the final straw. To this day, I cannot abide the thought - let alone the sight - of a SNAKE!

(Just for the record, on that same trip to Okinawa, I also took a shower with a gecko... Freaked me out, but it wasn't anywhere NEAR as bad as the habu!)

 

Thanks Greg. I appreciate your input too. I never can resist picking up Culver glass when I find it at the right price.