Featured Finds Thread

I was just thinking the same thing! Certainly possible. Here's a 1919 reference in Le Figaro.

LE CADEAU A LA MODE Un cadeau à la mode, cette année, porte la signature du Pavillon d'Antin 25, Boulevard Haussmann. Il n'y a que l'embarras du choix, depuis le parfum en vogue jusqu'au meuble de boudoir élégant, en passantpartoute la série des sacs, trousses, flacons, brûle-parfums^nécessaires, les plus jolis et les plus tentants.

Debora

 

Merci beaucoup! Nice reference: I did some digging, and found a few references. The style is right for the date, too.

 

Wow so nice to see everyone finds.
Y'all are doing nice with treasure hunting.

 

Found this Foo Dog at my friends house. He had it sitting on the floor and said he had no shelf space for it. He let me buy it for a reasonable price and it came home with me.
These are often found in pairs but this one is a lone wolf besides the baby under the paw.(lone foo dog)At 13" long x 16" high it weighs 19lbs. Heavy little fella.

 

Found this at a store last week. Probably 1940s or 50s era.

 

It's always a good idea to list dimensions .....when showing......pretty much anything...
It's a rear view mirror...right ?

 

Or meant to go on the passenger's sun visor?

 

Yes and yes! Either really. I assumed it would be pretty obvious, unless you’re not from this planet.

 

Thanks for the info on the blue beads, I had no idea. Japanese jewellery is something I will check out.

 

You Brits probably get tons of Czech, Italian and other Continental beads. We Americans got the Japanese ones. I have a few similar kicking around somewhere.

 

Seems obvious to me that it went on the passenger side visor at a time when it was assumed the driver would be a man and the passenger a woman. Can't imagine Buick giving a man this Mirror, mirror on the wall treatment. But I'm from Venus.

 

OK. Got mine set up to the point that I can bring up the program to starting point of saying it is initializing, and when I plug in the device it lights up & is recognized by the device manager. However. The device manager says device needs trouble shooting; trouble shooter can't find the problem. Meanwhile, in order to initialize the program, I'm being told device has to be plugged in. Have plugged, unplugged, rebooted. Simply cannot get the device & driver to find one another. Anything to suggest while I work on getting an answer from manufacturer? Not too surprising for a gadget that doesn't really come with operating instructions, just what to do in the event of various error messages. Maybe the Chinese text is more comprehensive.

Device manager knows it is a camera; camera program also finds no camera anywhere.

 

Thanks. Checked on settings for camera & hunted for any McAfee setting specific to the camera. Tried with the firewall off. Settings allow access; McAfee has no setting just for the camera. Will have to do battle with Jiusion, methinks.

 

This seems to be the problem, Windows not allowing me to use some of the driver files because it can't read or doesn't trust them. A couple do not have all the associated info about where they came from, so they may be the problem. Drill down in device manager & you get:

Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)

 

Thanks to you too. I have written to company, described problem, mentioned what seems to be the problem & asked whether I should download the drivers instead of using the CD provided. As it is you have to fix various things in the application before you can get it to work at all. I was so chuffed when it looked like it was starting up, then, maddeningly, told the microscope was not plugged in when it was all lit up. Ain't the digital world grand?

 

I just plugged mine in for the first time in eons. The picture editing program that it used to work with now doesn't agree with it. windoze recognizes it as a webcam. Wants it to do videos. So I pulled it up on the screen and pushed 'print screen sysrq' to capture the image and pasted it into the pic program.