Featured Finds Thread

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by verybrad, May 25, 2014.

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  1. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    @daveydempsey - you did find a few postcards after all. Any naughty ones? The risque stuff sells nicely.
     
    evelyb30, Feb 28, 2018
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  2. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Go to Lidl and buy their cheap limescale remover gel. It won't do any harm at all, and it takes limescale off glazed pots very nicely indeed. Or if you want to try vinegar - the bicarb neutralises it, so don't do that - buy Lidl's cheap vinegar, 25 pence a bottle and fill the bowl with it for a few hours.
     
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  3. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    To brighten your day "Beautiful Spring"
    This was from the latest clearance, tucked away in a walk in attic, probably never been used for decades.
    HMV Portable with needles and records.

     
    daveydempsey, Mar 1, 2018
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  4. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Not one Naughty, they were a very conservative family.
    Found a few letters from Buckingham Palace and Downing Street though.
     
    daveydempsey, Mar 1, 2018
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  5. vintagerobin

    vintagerobin Well-Known Member

    We had a local online sale that sold a KKK outfit recently. I know this stuff is historic but it rubs me the wrong way. I don't think I would be able to buy or sell it.
     
    vintagerobin, Mar 1, 2018
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  6. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    That machine is AWESOME and looks in NEW condition!!!! GREAT find!!!!!!!
     
    Aquitaine, Mar 1, 2018
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  7. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    Anybody else picture ladies in big hats and chiffon tea gowns and dapper gentleman in suits dancing to this ? :)
     
    johnnycb09, Mar 1, 2018
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  8. johnnycb09

    johnnycb09 Well-Known Member

    I dont know why someone would want stuff associated with so much hate,Nazi stuff either,but there you have it. I did grow up with casual racist stuff like lawn jockeys and mammy stuff all over the place,and even as a kid I thought it wasnt very appropriate. By the mid 70s most people realized and put it away,but there were holdovers like my great aunt who had a lot of mammy kitchen stuff.
     
    johnnycb09, Mar 1, 2018
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  9. gregsglass

    gregsglass Well-Known Member

    Hi Johnnie,
    I remember the year 1985 very well. I took a really nice Japanese guy who was helping me go through my great aunts Japanese collections to meet her sister my grandmother. My grandmother was very polite and offered us tea. When we were leaving I stopped back to get my camera I had left on the counter. My grandmother had just thrown my friends cup in to the garbage. I was looking at my grandmother and asked why. She said "Pearl Harbour" I hate those Japanese. I was so shocked I did not know what to say.
    greg
     
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  10. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    Thanks OBB,
    I will give it a try, and keep in cupboard for future use just as soon as the snow clears a bit to walk down there.
     
    Houseful, Mar 1, 2018
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  11. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    My Mother worked for Japanese Citizen Watches back in the 80s here in UK and there were phone calls to her asking about the Company. After confirmation of product origin they said although they liked the watches they couldn’t bear to buy them because they had lost loved ones to sunk ships etc
     
    Houseful, Mar 1, 2018
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  12. kristiaan

    kristiaan Well-Known Member

    Got some thing for music too, today!

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    kristiaan, Mar 1, 2018
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  13. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    Spent $30 today

    Simple artisan thing of sterling and 14K wire. Anyone recognize it to a certain maker?
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    The rest was mostly just 14K and 750. Those fine chains took a good hour to unknot. art 001.JPG
     
    terry5732, Mar 1, 2018
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  14. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!


    NICE Cameo!!!! In fact, NICE Lot of stuff!!!!:):):)
     
    Aquitaine, Mar 1, 2018
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  15. Rufus@frockstarvintage

    Rufus@frockstarvintage Well-Known Member

    Nice haul, @terry5732 ! I love untangling jewelry - just ask my cats aka the Tangle Gang :rolleyes:

    Same here; wouldn't be able to profit from such. My medals were inherited - in a steamer trunk full o'stuff - & will go to a museum someday.
     
    Rufus@frockstarvintage, Mar 1, 2018
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  16. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    @kristiaan

    I found these invoices among hundreds if not thousands of pieces of ephemera in the latest clearance.
    Uniforms made for Belgians, Russia and British African regiments.

    The recipient was man from the Tanganyika British Embassy who died in 1935.

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    daveydempsey, Mar 2, 2018
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  17. kristiaan

    kristiaan Well-Known Member

    Hey Davey, most interesting!
    If you find one treating about Belgian uniforms or anything related to, I would be willing to buy it!
     
    kristiaan, Mar 2, 2018
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  18. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    $8.00 of fun today
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    New old stock Parker failures from 1965
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    terry5732, Mar 2, 2018
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  19. Huntingtreasure

    Huntingtreasure Well-Known Member

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  20. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    I wanna shop where you shop !!
    Great finds......the little phone...& microphone are deeelishious.....
     
    komokwa, Mar 2, 2018
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