Featured Finds Thread

my best find this week is this Dr Who Tardis cookie jar, with light and sounds I'm not really sure if I would use this for cookies, just a fun piece.

 

My DIL would be all over that!

 

ya i would 2 lol, it's very nice,

 

Maybe not; but think how many cookies it would hold, since of course it is much larger inside than out.

 

I wonder whether that Tardis cookie jar was a donation reward by one of the PBS stations that used to air "classic" Dr. Who?

 

Too bad they didn't donate it to me!(LOL) I'd have jumped all over that....but then I'd have to find a dalek cookie cutter.

 

Went to a fundraiser sale today, car emissions inspection (passed) and the IllWill. Spent under $20 at the sale and scored three Vermont teddies for a friend's kids, a glass vase (hanukkah present for a friend) and two little gold bits headed for the melter. There were some other things too that may be photographed eventually. While waiting for my car, I walked over to the Goodwill and spent $40 on a sterling bracelet and gold chain. The chain was a Milor - modern and mass-produced, but no chance of it being fake. The pawn shop paid me $125 for the chain. Including the State inspection fee, I came home with $45 more than I started with. Not a bad day at the store.

 

Today wasn't bad either. I got up at 5am and went south to two rummage sales. $80 later I dropped some stuff off with Mom and went to the guy I call Mr Melty Man. Scrapped out a cheap gold chain and a worn out dresser set (busted comb, worn and torn brush, etc - no loss) for $60 of it back. Some of what came home includes a cup and saucer I need to get photographed, a wooden 1903 Ford kit and... I have to resize some shots so they'll display, but the ring is sterling and bright blue rock. The bracelet is jade and 14k, and the watch is...missing its back so it's not marked. It's OLD though; I think it's a repurposed pocket watch.

 

The dichroic please is sterling, the glass is glass, the bracelet is probably brass, and the cuff links are probably gold-filled. The pin is "a good question". It's silver on the front and gold on the back and has a funny mark.

 

I bought a model of a ship on Saturday , still in the wrapping .

 

Don't let @KingofThings see that!

 

That was made as a wrist watch. It's what some of the early ones were like.

Bored this afternoon, I went to the last day of an estate sale. They had listed lots of fine stuff. It had all been priced fine. Hundreds of people had been through. He sold much stuff at above retail. All I found was an old lighter for fifty cents.


after hundreds walked past it

 

what kind of lighter is it terry?

 

good score Lloyd!

 

I've seen it.
I think it's an older Revell version.

 

During WWII brass was a war material and Zippo couldn't use it. They made lighters out of steel and coated them thickly to try and stop them from rusting.

It still says Zippo under there

 

Is that a rare lighter, Terry?

 

thanks terry, I would never have thought Zippo!

 

Evelyb, I'm glad somebody is finding jewels. Slow here. Our estate sales seem to have stopped listing/photographing jewelry if they have it. Evidently I missed a huge jewelry sale that went unadvertised as being such a few weeks ago.... people are really cut throat here, as I've stated previously.

I skipped a community yard sale at a newer upscaley development this week. Too tired, too hot... and those developments are usually QVC and HSN type stuff.... I did go to one of my antique malls today and found a few little things, nothing to really show....but as I was bringing them to the counter as I found them, the woman serving as the cashier kept saying "That's really nice." "Where did she find that?" "I didn't see that!" The last thing I took up to the register was a 14k gold opal ring (which was priced as such, some chips to some of the opals, prongs crooked..) but the price was okay, $185 less 25% because the store was having a promotion, anything with red, white, or blue on it was 25% off. So the cashier woman looks at the price on the bottom of the ring box and angrily SLAMS it on the counter. I guess she didn't see this ring, either. When I told her I expected 25% off she said "no.' I then said "What color are these opals flashing?" She then said "Fine, I don't care." Nice.