Featured Today’s finds - Celluloid bag handle, spider and beads.

Picked up these bits today.
Celluloid bag handle, no idea really why I picked this up as I need another project like a hole in the head but I just loved it. Fingers crossed it’s all celluloid and not some tortoiseshell.. The knob is a little work of art (behave please....)
What sort of contemporary fabric would go well with this?. What sort of age?
Lovely little spider brooch. Needs a clean- glass stones?. I’ll post a better pic when cleaned if that helps. I thought the spider looked older than the stones but WDIK.
Two strings of what I think are filthy coral beads which are about to have a bath!. Seller thought they were ivory but I don’t think so.
Thankyou for looking

 

Very nice.

 

My vote is for all celluloid bag mount

 

Phew!. I was so hoping it wasn't tortoiseshell

 

Thankyou

 

Mine too. And it is gorgeous.

 

Maybe you can put the spider in with the grouse foot, to get rid of the 'beasty'.

 

Hi,
I absolutely adore that grouse foot. Please do not rip the gold off to sell. Perhaps we could communicate.
greg

 

Yessss! SAVE THE GROUSE!!!

 

It comes with its own ecosystem and wildlife .
I wasn't going to scrap it, I'm much too soft to destroy something that's been around for 140 years.
I did take a silver one apart the other day but only because the bird had obviously suffered a catastrophic crash landing and all it's bones were broken .

 

Thankyou
Do you think 1920s or a bit later?. What sort of material would the bag have been made out of and I'll see what I've got in my fabric box?.

 

Could even be earlier, those pods (what are they called again, the ones that twirl like a crashing helicopter ) are Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts.
I can see this with a ribbed satin bag.

 

Sycamore.
I didn't even see that in the pattern until you pointed it out. I was thinking 'why is she talking about interesting flora and fauna when I'm looking at a handle'

 

I see mistletoe rather than sycomore samara

 

Like this? Looks a witch to sew!

 

Ooh could be!

 

The beads look like dyed fossil stone to me, but show us when you get them cleaned up

 

Yes, could be.

No, that is far too modern. I mean ribbing woven into the fabric, I'll see if I can find an example.

 

Will do!

 

Phew, I could see sewing that would cause a meltdown.