Featured Finds Thread

Excellent find !!!

 

My kind of silverplate! Silver plated onto silver.

 

Thank you Cheryl! Was hoping you’d see this, you are such a gem! After posting here, I started seeing bits of information online that Marquand was also sourcing from other silversmiths and wondered if the marks could be attributed to another maker. So grateful to have your help!

 

Could not believe it when the auction ended & I got these 10 pieces for $47.00, $69.17 with taxes & shipping.

Eight of the pieces are from 1901 to 1907 & are English sterling. The vanity jar is marked "sterling" in amongst the design I think & the powder jar is not marked that I can find. However, if they aren't both sterling, they are doing a very good imitation of sterling.



I am going to post the c.1903 green smelling salts bottle on the PG&P section to see if anyone knows the maker of the bottle. The holder is Cornelius Desormeaux Saunders & James Francis Hollings (Frank) Shepherd.

The bottle to the left of the powder jar is Birmingham c.1906 Wm. Vale & Sons.

The bottle to the right of the jar is Birmingham c.1905 Wm. Hutton & Sons Ltd.

The 3 bottles are Birmingham c.1907 J.H. Worral Son & Co. Ltd.

The 2 huge bottles are London c.1901 Hart & Sons.

My favorite is definitely the green smelling salts bottle for sure!!

 

You are most welcome - glad I could share a bit more information!

~Cheryl

 

$ 22.17 ... taxes..& Shipping..????

for all that glass..?
u don't give size, or weight........so , are they Miniatures?

That sounds awful inexpensive for shipping.....

Nice win though...

 

They don't look like mniatures. UPS or Fedex Ground with a business discount, probably.

Somebody was asleep at the switch, and it wasn't you. SCORE!

 

It costs that much in gas , just to get it across town..!!!

 

Picked up a set of 5 provincial Biedermeier chairs, probably dating to around 1850 (not entirely certain). Beautiful flame birch with lively figure and a really nice, honest patina. Frames feel solid; seats just need reupholstery. Paid $5 each. Not planning to resell—these are staying as our breakfast table chairs.

 

Shes not entirely sure yet. Tables like this tend to sit quite a bit higher than modern sofas, so they don’t fit as naturally in a seating area.

 

$5 a chair? Wowser!

 

I don't know if @Ghopper1924 looks in on this thread, but I know he will certainly appreciate those beautiful old chairs.

 

Beautiful chairs alright! Love ‘em!!

 

No they are not miniatures. The big round ones are 5 1/2" tall & are about 4 1/2" across.

She did okay on the shipping costs actually. The box weighed 9 lbs. & she shipped Ground Advantage which according to my calculations was about $15. She packed it all very securely.

I think it was a case of an infrequent, fairly inexperienced seller along with eBays visibility issues. This same seller listed 2 small perfumes the previous week that sold for $67.00. Those had sterling in the title, but this one just said silver. However, I could tell just by the looks of the bottles that they were likely sterling. She also showed the marks in the first listing, but this one only showed a partial shot of one of the large bottle's marks.

My guess is these were family things that she inherited & she decided to just do everything at one time just to get them gone.

 

And Bercrystal helped out. You took the unwanted bottles off of her hands.

And that price?! G-O-N-E g'bye and down the road!

 

congrats anund, what a great score

 

you got lots of fabulous items Marko

no idea what it is, but it is a sweet piece