Featured Finds Thread

I checked Morning Glory's wen site and there are several vulcanite lockets that look similar to yours:
https://www.morninggloryjewelry.com/articles/gallery/victorian-vulcanite-necklaces/

 

Yup. I think Morning Glory settles it.

 

Are there any indications of a later marriage other than the less than perfect match for size? The impression I have formed over the years is that the jet frames were made in standard sizes, while there is no standard sizing for shell cameos. I have seen many where it looks to me like the edges of the cameo have been shaved down to make it fit the frame, sometimes leaving a disproportionately small field around the figure. I only have one, quite a large, thick, heavy conch shell cameo, in a jet frame that rises & falls with the shape of the shell.

It occurs to me that jet & conch shell may have been paired so much not because people like the combo of pink & black but because most conch shell cameos have flat backs & level edges. When jet was used for helmet shell pieces, the fit is often uneasy.

The first time I bought a cameo in a jet frame I all but accused the English seller of passing off plastic as jet, it was so glossy & light. I got a steal on this one because it was written up as being Celluloid:

 

I'll have to dig it out and look. I remember the poor kind of looking scrunched.

 

The bottle on the left is the newest addition to my collection. I had bought the atomizer back in 2024. These are DeVilbiss No. N-15 & DN-15. They are shown in the 1925 & 1926 catalogs. The bulb on the atomizer has a hand-crochet cover that has pale blue glass beads. DeVilbiss employed women to make the hand-crocheted covers for the bulbs. The beaded coverings were used on the higher end bottles. I have another atomizer that has pink beads. The atomizer is 7 1/2" to the top if the hardware & the dauber bottle is 6 7/8" to the top of the dauber.

 

Wowzer!!!

 

Story time. I got up at 4 am to go to a local annual flea market. It used to be people selling yard sale things, but this year it was ALL dealers. Practically no jewelry, people were not set up by 7:30, so I drove to my flea market. Good thing. Everything was $1 or $2 a piece.

 

I then drove back to the flea market before going home. The sterling peacock and pendant were reasonable for dealer prices.


And then I found these for a total of $10. Sterling Creed rosary in a vintage Japan box and an antique costume cross with diamante rhinestones.

 

A close-up of some of my favorites....bakelite, gold-plated Italy bracelet, Art Deco rose bracelet, Lenox Autumn GF brooch/pendant, and set in costume, smoky quartz.

 

Gorgeous colour!

 

Like the Mexican pin and the hedgehog buckle.

Debora

 

Carved bakelite. Score! The sterling rosary probably got missed because the box wasn't silver.

 

I didn't think of that....

 

4 albums and an autographed book by a famous fitness person, Jillian Michaels, for next to nothing!

Rita Coolidge's album is the best-mixed album I've heard in a lonnnng time!!

 

Got this for my daughter- it's dated 1929 and was gifted in 1930:

 

Also got this anniversary issue of GWTW today, it's ftom 1975:

 

Also got this first edition HP book with what is apparently an error:

 

Which Horton book is that?

 

Yep, got a bunch of Dr. Seuss books as well