Featured Finds Thread

Cool piece! ("Kollmar Kette" no "k").

There are a number of pocket watch chains with that stamp online, should help with dating at least.

No idea if the coin pendant is original. Awesome necklace. Great find!

 

I love the metalwork on this.

 

Ottoman empire mark on the coin,don't know if it's a real coin.

 

Great necklace, quite in shape of Victorian bookchain ones with extender and locket!
your photo is gorgeous!

 

Thanks!

Me too. It caught my eye instantly.

Thank you! I thought it might be Ottoman because the woman I bought it from was Turkish. Would it help for you to see a picture of the other side? It looks very similar to: https://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotv...&Lot=963&Val=21c637676a323be6018dd925f2552481

That's what I thought of too! And thank you! I've been trying to take better pictures.

 

I braved the heat today and ventured out to my usual flea market. Some vendors were already starting to pack up by the time I arrived (9:30), but I managed to snag this bowl for 5 euros.
It's marked 95% silver Burma on the bottom.

The weird thing is how absolute and black the patina is. It almost reminds me of niello, except it covers the entire bowl (save for the areas where silver is showing through)

 

Lovely! A very nice find
An offering bowl, I think

 

Thank you! I was stunned when I heard the price. I would have paid 5 euros even if it was just plated

 

Don't know if it applies in this case, but occasionally silver is deliberately oxidized to look black.

 

This might help to cut down on the dentist expenses...

 

My mom made some silver jewelry when she was in college.

I was pretty young when I "cleaned" it for her. She was not a yelling mom, but she couldn't hide how sad she was.

 

Would be a perfect kyratisations tool!

 

I wouldn't want it around for other purposes. YIKE. Today I got up at o'dark 30 to hit a church fundraiser in the next town. The purses were $1 each and I ended up with three. One of them came with $1.61 in change.(LOL) Hard to miss at that price! Got some fake Tiffany Jewelry, no surprise there, and enough scrap silver to pay for the $10 I spent. Now if only that Tiffany chain, alleged, hadn't stuck to a magnet.

 

Not a new find....cuz I've had it 4 ever...but also....haven't seen it 4 ever.....but a while back one of these was posted and I couldn't get it out of my mind....that I had one.....but where ??
So I tossed the places where I hide my old stuff and sure enuf......Voila !

 

Very cool, Komo!

 

This is one of my latest finds, two finds really.....
It's a Victorian Bobbin Stand, I think it's a pretty rare form, I've never seen one like this before and I've trawled the net but found nothing like it....
The panels are Birds Eye Maple, it's styled on a dresser, the top lifts up for storage and the two drawers for more storage.
I had the old bobbins already.
The original feet were missing.

These old feet/knobs or whatever they are I bought for £1 a couple of months previously.....
They just needed paring down to fit in the original holes and they are a PERFECT match, if I had to go out and find some I couldn't have done better.

I LOVE this

 

The Birds Eye Maple makes the whole piece glow......sweet !!!!

 

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Oh! I love that!

 

It does yes.....
I guessing that would have been an expensive addition back then?

 

It's lovely isn't it, makes all the searching worthwhile