Featured Finds Thread

Those shells.

 

Yeah, I know I can't sell it, but I can't resist it, either. The horns are clips, though. I posted that brooch on another site for identification, and someone actually posted pictures and descriptions of galailith from a book. The book said galailith will have the multicolor effect. I dunno. He is a big collector of that kind of stuff.

 

It looked like painted bakelite to me, but ....

 

Evelyn, it could be. I am not good with bakelite, galailith, celluloid, and lucite. I just can't distinguish them.

 

That back often gives it away. Weight will give away bakelite vs celluloid if nothing else. Bakelite weighs more than you'd think, and celluloid is very light. Galaith smells like rotten milk when you do a bakelite chemical test on it. Lucite just smells like plastic and weighs about like bakelite. The thing is always use chemical tests on the back of jewelry; you'd know that but some noobs have been known....

 

Thank you. I did google painted bakelite and galalith images. These come up for galalith, the most similar things I have seen to my brooch. These are galalith...


I pretty much pass on stuff like this because I am not knowledgeable. However, the brooch was there for two days in a row, and it screamed "Take a chance and BUY ME!"

 

My finds from today... I went back to the tip in the hopes of digging some more unusual collectable items like that glass tile I dug a while ago... I got myself a few nice bits I dug lots of stuff but could only take so much as the bags were getting very heavy, thankfully I this landfill permission is open to me as well as some other bottle diggers the stuff there is never ending and lots of areas still remain untouched.

There were some really nice pieces I dug out like bits of printed stoneware ginger beer bottle and bits of stoneware flagon and also some bits that would have been very expensive items if there were whole, including what would have been a nice J. G. Green glass vase and bits of a green leaf Majolica chestnut dish 1850s era and bits of printed 1862 marmalade jars. Its always the good stuff that's broken.

Here is a picture of the things I did bring home with me...

I dug an almost complete teapot, it has a missing spout and I plan on repairing this old teapot, the tile I almost didn't take but decided to take it at the last minute. I got a nice melted bottle I do like my melted bottles. I got a nice "Not To Be Taken" poison bottle, some old Marmite jars, some Vulcanite stoppers including some war grade stoppers and I got a couple American bottles "California Fig Syrup" which was popular in those days over here and the other American bottle being "Slone's Liniment" bottle 1940s - 50s and a nice complete stoneware foot warmer except I can not unscrew the cap I have tried many ways to try remove it but it seems to be fused on tight. I haven't finished cleaning my finds I just semi cleaned stuff so I can get photos posted on here tonight.

I found this very nice honey jar too.

When I'm out I always take home spare parts such as teapot lids and handles as I sometimes find things that are missing handle etc...

I also picked up a couple teapot spouts for the repair of the teapot I found...


Here are a few more pictures of some of the other bottles I got today...



A small glass inkwell.

An OXO Jar which I've not cleaned, it still has some of the label on, my plane is to match it for another one and stick it on the jar.


I also found this nice shallow sorta jar.

 

I like the tile. Years ago I went bottle digging, got an old brown Gilbeys gin bottle which I still have, Eiffel Tower lemonades, lots of Bovrils and yes it was usually the really nice ones that were broken. Got an early Sainsbury’s ceramic pot somewhere and several sheared top ink bottles. A fun hobby as long as your Tetanus shots are up to date.

 

Yes that's a very good point raised there with getting a Tetanus shot, I can't remember when I last had one so its probably wise I get another just to be on the safe side. I've been after an Eiffel Tower Lemonade bottle for sometime now but I never seem to find any. I have lots of Bovril jars I managed to collect most of the sizes in 3 sets I'll have to take a picture of those at some point. I might do a bottle digging thread sometime as I have some really nice bottles I'd like to show off.

 

Found this Kamaka ukulele on my way home, $2.99+.


This thing brings back memories of my great grandfather in the summertime laying on the daybed in the screened in shanty playing the ukulele, singing and drinking beer, while my great grandmother cooked in the house with the player piano hammering away. It was pure joyous chaos for a kid.

 

Think you need a booster every 7 years, not absolutely sure about that but best to check with your GP.

 

Correct.

 

Charity shop finds. Think they thought that someone had defaced Bill Shatners photo, I think it is a genuine siggie but rather faded.
I would have bought it anyway as he was a teenage crush! £2.
The art nouveau probably Bohemian blue glass vases were £3.49 for the pair.

 

Very nice everyone.
I saw the same noise maker last weekend at a sale. They are so cute.

 

More from carboot this time. Goldtone Trifari earrings, silver pendants, coconut shell ring, tiny Mexican cuff, jade bangle, too small for me too, sterling clip ons and cross and a nice lump of amber as yet untested but I think it's ok. The other clip ons are the spanish faux damascene. All 50pence each bar the jade which was £2.
~

 

A bargain, nice haul. The bangle is Chinese. The amber is reconstructed, chips heated and bonded under pressure, but it looks all amber. A UV light will tell if it is.

 

i've never seen his siggy.....but that looks pretty legit !!!!

 

Thanks AJ, I didn't know they did that to this colour amber. I knew about the pressed darker type in modern pendants and rings etc and assumed the egg yolk Baltic was older and wasn't treated so I've learned something today. I had guessed the bangle was Chinese this one for a smaller wrist, I have another, same colour but luckily wearable for me.

 

I read he gets mobbed if he signs even for one person now so if he's out with his grandchildren or in a restaurant he won't do it.

 

They have been doing that for centuries, because it is a fairly easy way to get big pieces to process in art etc.. This one is certainly a bit older, maybe 1940s?