Featured Finds Thread

found this at flea market anyone know anything about it?

 

mattress makers give a way notebook..?

 

The company is still around and still making mattresses.

 

& good luck to them...cuz today's mattresses are all large blocks of foam.....& how they get away with the $$$ for a block of foam is beyond me !

 

Hi Folks,
Found these smalls at the flea market today.
Bergamot Brass Works Dragon Buckle 1974 - $3
Bronze Ashanti Gold Weight -$3
Murano Flower Paper Weight - $1

 

The buckle is very nice.
The gold weight...I've never seen before and suspect mid 1900's....but that is only an educated guess. It looks odd...& maybe repaired.

 

Thank you , and , good eye. The odd look of gold weight is that a little of the base and one leg to one drum never filled out with bronze while in the mold. They actually added weight under the one drum to get the desired weight I suppose.
I think the gold weight is a nice addition to the African art , but the Murano paper weight may be the catch of the day.
I foolishly set down a Tiffany picture frame that I had in my hands because the stained glass backing had a crack. I didn't ask the price because of that. The next person walked up and asked and the seller said $10......I didn't get to pick it up again.
That's what I get for not asking!

 

my 18th--19th century ashanti weights...

 

I love the belt buckle- I love all things dragony.

Well, the community yard sale.... it rained off and on and I got there late, 11ish. Figured there would be nothing there. There seemed to be quite a lot of jewelry outside one of the churches where people set up, but I missed it. They did have a 25 cent table, and there were two vintage chrome majorette batons there, so I bought them for my sister to resell at her flea market.

I parked far from the church and walked around to various sales (weren't many) carrying the two batons. At a multi-family yard sale, I was looking through the items and a woman who was selling there (she had wooden display cases set up with ridiculously over-priced stuff) came up to me and started making fun of the batons. I told her they were only 25 cents each and I liked them. She FOLLOWED ME AROUND continuing to make fun of me. It was like a bullying situation. So I went over to her cases and she followed me. She said "You with batons, just too funny!" So she had this hatpin for sale marked "unsigned hat pin, $45." I am usually very nice, but I said to her "You know what is hilarious? You trying to sell that hat pin for that price at a yard sale." That got her quiet. And I walked away.

So on my way back to the car, there was an old wooden folding chair with a piece of pottery on it that caught my eye. It was around 1 p.m. and people just start putting stuff at the curb, but I picked up the piece and knocked on the door. An elderly lady came out and I asked her if she was getting rid of the items out front. She said no, a lady previously bought 5 pieces of pottery from her similar to this and kept bugging her for more because the lady told her she had one she couldn't find. She said she set the piece out in case the woman came back. I asked her how much she wanted for it, she said "make me an offer." So I said $2 and she said sold. Here it is, one of the few times I didn't make a glassware mistake.


From my research, it is Roseville Sun and Moon jardinere, if I am spelling that right, 10" circumference. Then I asked how much the wooden chair was, she said make me an offer. I offered $5, so then she said, well I have two more. I bought all three for $10 to give to sis to sell at her flea market. Even though it wasn't a jewelry day, there was still treasure left later in the day.... you never know.

So people started packing up, and there was an estate sale a town over, second day so basically nothing left. It was being run by an estate company I never heard of, and they were very nice. I found a set of fur cuffs removed from a coat and thought they were rabbit, no price tag, so the lady running the estate sale said "I have to ask her." I said "Her who?" She said "the owner." I said "I never went to an estate sale that was run by an estate sale seller who let the owner be there." She said the owner REFUSED to leave the premises during the sale. She looked exasperated and said "me either." So the owner said the fur cuffs were lynx and asked me to make an offer. I offered $10 for the pair, she then said $20 for the pair, so I agreed. The owner was nice, and we got to talking. I wish I had taken a picture of her chandelier, it was the most beautiful and unique I have ever seen. Antique, it looked like drooping palm fronds covered with hanging crystals. She had a lot of beautiful things, I think she was Jewish, there was a menorah there and many Middle Eastern things. The lady running the estate sale also liked me, and told me about two upcoming sales. So it was a pleasant, if not wildly profitable, day.

I will post antique show finds tomorrow. No great bargains, paid fair prices, but beautiful things.

 

Your jardiniere is not Roseville but, rather, Robinson Ransbottom pottery. It sometimes has the RRPCo. mark with Roseville, Ohio on the bottom so often gets confused as being Roseville. Here is the bottom of a marked example (Though many were not marked):

 

and Roseville was in Zanesville

 

See why I don't do glassware? I know nothing. Thanks for the info, I will research more.

 

Well, the antique show, even next to the bay and ocean, was awfully hot and humid, lower 90s, no breeze. Not as many people there as usual, the dealers have to contractually be there. I did buy a few things, but these two were my favorites.
14k cameo, I like to think it is Venus, I never saw one with a bosom fashioned like this.

And I had no plans to buy this, but I fell in love with the beauty of it, lava cameo, set in sterling and gold-washed sterling.

 

Beautiful cameos, Marko! I saw you asked about them in the Cameos thread, so will wait for Bronwen to check in on that.

 

Hi Marko.
Your planter is RRCP as stated by Brad. The number on it from the company is 1400 but people have many names for it as moon and stars, century plant, sunrise, sun set and many others but it is only #1400. It is my favorite piece. I have maybe 25 pieces of it running from 4" to 20" diameter. I have had many people call it Roseville and priced it way too high. I have seen it offered for 10 dollars to 250 dollars.
greg

 

Wow!! Great collection. Must have taken you a while to find all of those beauties.

 

I never heard of Ashanti weights. I will research them, too! Really cool, Komokwa!

 

Funny thing...they all came to me at once !
I'm not really an African collector, but couldn't pass these up.
My man sitting with the turtle & shell has a very similar back to yours.....so yours may be older than I 1st gave it credit for.
I'll photo it tonight......

 

It's an interesting part of African commerce........

 

those are very nice komokwa

love your cameos Marko