Featured Finds Thread

WW2 Bolo Knife for $6. A bit rusty but I'll leave it up to the collector to decide what he should do about that.

 

that's a medical corps blade....
https://www.ebay.com/itm/WW2-USMC-V...nife-Boyt-1944-Leather-Scabbard-/232427922510

 

Thank you ! It makes me crazy when I cant remember something!

 

!!!!!! Lucky you. I have a couple of Eickholt pieces, but bought from him & were not $2.00. Also have a little paperweight that was a gift. Was too lazy to put this all in green.

P.S. Do you bring a wheelbarrow with you to these things?

 

What is that one worth?

 

Only one of the pieces I bought is a vase, a very heavy cobalt blue with controlled bubbles, hint of iridescence as the light hits it, acquired at a crafts show. Many years ago now, but I think it was $60.

If you want to know about the one under discussion, just ask Google.

 

I ask Google stuff all the time,and it never answers me!

 

Thanks, Komokwa!

 

I look up such a disparate array of topics, some of them pretty obscure, I always wonder what the profiling algorithms make of me.

 

They're sure I'm schizophrenic by now, most likely.

 

What - where - what - who - what???

 

Exactly.

 

I think if I were an algorithm, I would conclude that my Internet usage was indicative of about 11 people sharing one computer.

 

Saw this in a shop I had never been to just sitting on the shelf. O thought why would someone put either pewter or spelt on a nice stone finish hmmmm. Anyway decided to spend the 3 dollars. Checked it once o got home and yes it is silver. Looks like someone has maybe melted down old silver jewellery and made the tree. Overall with base 3.5 ounces. Tree height 50mm. Can anyone tell me the type of stone please. Chris

 

The stone is a polished agate slab/cross section.

 

Could be petrified wood, which can be mineralogically like agate in being mostly microcrystalline quartz/chalcedony. Hard to tell without getting a little better look at it. Would make an appropriate platform for a tree.

 

Looks like a cross section of a "thunderegg" / geode to me - but you're right that petrified wood is essentially the same makeup and can look very similar when polished. From the pics provided I don't see anything that looks like wood grain though.

 

that's not wood...it rock..

 

Pretty sure it' a rock and checking agate online looks like a good match thanks once again

 

Not that I think this is petrified wood - but petrified wood is a rock - it's chalcedony, just like agate. Polished cross sections of a piece of petrified wood can look very similar to this, but they'd normally have the concentric circles of the wood visible, or other wood grain type features - which this doesn't - that I can tell.