Featured Finds Thread

Here is a blast from the past, I just found these while clearing out a closet

 

I like the shade....it's the lamp...that's..well....shady !!!

 

Some of the best finds are when a person discovers things that he/she has forgotten are already in the house!

 

cross country tour ????
Yay, Ste. Agathe !!!

 

I agree with that, I've found a few goodies over the years that I had forgotten about

Yes, maybe from one person, I seem to think they came in a box lot from an auction

 

Scored some silver from a thrift today. Unusual because this is a place that has a shelf about 30 yards long with nothing but beat up flaking off silverplate stuff that never sells so I rarely even bother to look through it - but these caught my eye sitting stacked together for 99c a piece. They all have the Cyprus fish silver mark and 830.


Bowl with ram. 5" diameter -- Dish/plate with Leda and the swan scene? 5" diameter -- Dish/plate with Phoenician boat 4 1/2" in diameter.

 

good eye Aaron

 

I'm glad somebody found something in a thrift!

 

awww, that's sweet !!!!

 

I found a stove that's driving me nuts. A Few nice silver pieces and a tusk necklace.

 

LOVE the stove! Old stoves rock. The necklace is pretty new. Is the parrot Mexican?

 

The necklace is Tusk signed on back deGaines 77, The bracelet and Parrot are Taxco

 

No surprises on the silver - it was either going to be Taxco or Mexico City, odds on. Once in a blue moon you'll see Guadalajara, but I even have a hard time spelling that one.

 

I know right, It is the newer taxco but the bracelet was only 5 an the parrot 3 so still a good deal

 

If you're around metal value, that's a score!

My pile of random bits for the day. Scrap metal not shown. There's a 10k cross and a bitty 14k Mary medal. The long 80s earrings are Unknown metal. There are some sterling earrings inlaid with turquoise too. The quilt is a baby quilt I just finished. It's been assigned to the new baby of someone local. The third image? Something I knocked together last night out of silver, pearl and onyx beads with a few snowflake obsidians tossed in for giggles.

 

Nice, guys. I have had a very mediocre summer treasure hunting, but this past Friday and Saturday were good. I will post pictures of the best soon.

 

Love the blanket it looks beautiful. I am sure who ever it's going to will treasure it.

 

In a lot of ephemera we found a number of letters sent to Peter Townend, the organiser of the Deb's season in the UK between 1958 and 2000. The practice of presenting debs to Court stopped in 1958 and Townend was a larger than life character, editor of Burke's Peerage and Social Editor of The Tatler (read the Telegraph obituary)

It was interesting to research how these privileged young people progressed in life, some drifted into obscurity, others became movers and shakers. While the letters are mostly banal, the stories behind some of them are anything but, including one from a Cambridge undergraduate who later had the misfortune to be publicly outed by the Serbians.

Edit: now I had put a link to this story but for some reason the link would not work. So just search for a Sunday Times article "Vengeful Serbs betray.."

Shades of James Bond!

 

I found these at a thrift store yesterday The bottom of the Young mother picture says Chicago colortype Co 1900 and the smaller picture says painted by R Leslie and etched by Alex Lawson.