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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9414477, member: 36"]Bits from yesterday. Went back today and found another hand-written cookbook to rescue, and an olive wood mortar and pestle. Or a bowl really. It's smallish, but for $7 I wasn't yowling.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yesterday: Gold and lapis oval earrings, oval costume with 14k posts, ivory button earrings with what looks like costume backs. 80s Modernist triangle-ish earrings I need to test for silver yet. No marks. Heart ring - no marks, but the black looks like carved onyx.</p><p><br /></p><p>Glass cat, unsigned but possibly St Clair - found a signed piece in the house. Sterling mate spoons, sets of 6 and 4. Sterling baby cup. Letter opener/knife with sterling sides. (for $2? sure!) Sterling handle cream cheese and lox set. (cream cheese spreader, fish knife, bread/bagel knife) I've found these before. The recipes are all Jewish and the house had a mezuzah on the door. Speaking of recipes, one of the boxes is a typed/duped set from a local synagogue (Orthodox) and the other is mostly handwritten/copied. </p><p><br /></p><p>Left the overpriced "weighted" sterling compotes and candlesticks where they still sat today. The candlesticks were $68/pair, and the compotes were over $200 for the pair. I have a hunch the family insisted, and will be taking them home. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]431733[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]431734[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]431735[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9414477, member: 36"]Bits from yesterday. Went back today and found another hand-written cookbook to rescue, and an olive wood mortar and pestle. Or a bowl really. It's smallish, but for $7 I wasn't yowling. Yesterday: Gold and lapis oval earrings, oval costume with 14k posts, ivory button earrings with what looks like costume backs. 80s Modernist triangle-ish earrings I need to test for silver yet. No marks. Heart ring - no marks, but the black looks like carved onyx. Glass cat, unsigned but possibly St Clair - found a signed piece in the house. Sterling mate spoons, sets of 6 and 4. Sterling baby cup. Letter opener/knife with sterling sides. (for $2? sure!) Sterling handle cream cheese and lox set. (cream cheese spreader, fish knife, bread/bagel knife) I've found these before. The recipes are all Jewish and the house had a mezuzah on the door. Speaking of recipes, one of the boxes is a typed/duped set from a local synagogue (Orthodox) and the other is mostly handwritten/copied. Left the overpriced "weighted" sterling compotes and candlesticks where they still sat today. The candlesticks were $68/pair, and the compotes were over $200 for the pair. I have a hunch the family insisted, and will be taking them home. [ATTACH=full]431733[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]431734[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]431735[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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