Featured Finds Thread

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  1. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

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    92 world's fair. Marked 'US STERLING', it's nickel plate on brass.
     
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  2. Huntingtreasure

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  4. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    The shell is missing on the other side. The gold ring turned out to only be platinum.
     
    terry5732, Mar 2, 2018
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  5. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Isn't that a bitch !!! :grumpy::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious::hilarious:
     
    komokwa, Mar 2, 2018
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  6. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    What's the connection between Belfast & Medusa?
     
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  7. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    I think I see that spoon as saying "Worlds Fair City", but then I HAVE been known to be wrong :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::joyful:
     
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  8. Huntingtreasure

    Huntingtreasure Well-Known Member

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  9. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

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  10. daveydempsey

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    @Bronwen
    They are actually not Medusa heads—they are Mercury heads. Mercury was the Roman God of financial gain and commerce.
     
    daveydempsey, Mar 3, 2018
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  11. Figtree3

    Figtree3 What would you do if you weren't afraid?

    Might be for the 1892-1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago? (On my phone and didn't look up the correct name.)
     
    Figtree3, Mar 3, 2018
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  12. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    Interesting, since searching for 'belfast medusa note' turns up things like this.

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    Probably should alert the keepers of the Medusa Rondanini they've got it all wrong.

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  13. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Catalogues that state that the are Medusa heads are mistaken—they are Mercury heads.
    Even my Krause (US) World banknotes describes one note as having Medusa with Mercury at the centre.
    The link you show is an American catalogue.
    The water marks are also Mercury.
    They are not Belfast notes, that is where the bank is, they are Northern Ireland banknotes.
     
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  14. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Here`s a site that buys obsolete banknotes back from ignorant and gullible people, they are worth very much more.
    https://www.leftovercurrency.com/ex...tes/bank-of-ireland-1-pound-banknote-mercury/
     
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  15. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    Humm, this Belfast Mercury has some snakes in his hair...:bucktooth:
    Would an anti dandruffs shampoo work on his Medusa look?:rolleyes:;)
     
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  16. daveydempsey

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    Also has wings like Mercury, it doesn`t matter where they are positioned because its all a myth like all the gods some people believe in.:rolleyes::D
     
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  17. kyratango

    kyratango Bug jewellery addiction!

    MERCURY wings/MEDUSA snakes...
    I'd call him/her a MERDUSA;):p remember, I'm a facetious froggy!:hilarious:
     
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  18. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Don`t forget this is the Irish we are talking about, they defy logic.
    They even have a racehorse called "Defy logic":D
     
    daveydempsey, Mar 3, 2018
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  19. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Lots o' folks believe in the God of financial gain and commerce. LOTS !!!!:playful::playful:
     
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  20. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Today I went to an "estate" sale that was really a moving sale. When asked about old costume jewelry "Oh I gave all of that away".:bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears::bigtears: Spent $6 total on two photo frames, a friend's birthday present, and a $5 electric fan another friend asked me to buy him. OTOH I met someone I knew at the Ill Will, where I'd found pieces of my mom's 1960s formal china, who handed me a Chinese silver bracelet as a gift. Can't say I was too upset about that.:smuggrin:
     
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