Featured Finds Thread

Thank you, Cheryl. At first I was thinking it was just me.

 

You've a Damascene Toledo Ware bracelet. Do I see amber?

 

Heh - same here...

~Cheryl

 

To clean that filigree work, Nevr-dull cotton wadding silver polish works great since there is no white stuff to leave as residue.

 

Wow, loving all this! Nice haul, Evelyn and Sharonna. I love the ivory- Evelyn, is that pin on the right with the oval stone gold-filled? Sharonna, is the red-stone necklace sterling? I learn a lot on this site, I am still drawn to looking for jewelry, though....
I found the first four pins at a yard sale. Thought they were new costume because they are all identical, but they are marked sterling on the backs and the stones test as ruby, sapphire, and spinel, and I can't remember the last....$1 each. One has a bad pin back repair.

The next is an antique mall find. I saw if a few weeks ago, loved it, but didn't want to spend $28. I went back and got it today. Found out it is satin? peacock glass.

I found an antique shop. It is in a guy's garage. Although this is beat up, it is a sterling Trifari fur clips from 1947 (looked patent up last night.) $4.



Sterling Basket pin with marcasites


Big honkin' 80s blue leather bracelet with rhinestone bling

 

Nuff said, after you go through the costume, maybe you could set up a table at a friend's yard sale. You'd be surprised how much it could fetch!

 

Decent day today. A huge amber brooch with Polish hallmarks for a dollar fifty. I stack of hallmarked silver jools for about 50 dollars. Mostly keepers. Oops. Two HUGE pairs of clip earrings, signed P&M Paris and Attire, a dollar fifty, and a rather pretty art glass and copper bracelet, same amount. Lots of other stuff, mostly weird.

 

Hi,
I swear I am going to start really looking at jewelery. I know I have found some good pieces thanks to photos in the old ebay jewelery board. A couple of cameos cheap since the owners thought they were junk. My favorite was a JKL tree of life pin with the most gorgeous peridot colored stones.
greg

 

Bear, is that a genuine Tiffany bracelet? Either way, I would be wearing that! I like the pearl earrings. Greg, it never hurts to look at everything!

 

If it's not genuine, it's a damn good fake. The earrings will be kept: I've no holes in my ears, so good clips are always welcome. And the amber brooch is most certainly staying in my hoard. As is the blingy silver bracelet. Mine, my precious.

 

owned was the amber question about mine? I didn't get any amber in my jewels
Nice jewels everyone who can resist them? There is never a end to the new things you see or find, like art

 

I picked up about 80 pounds of pewter today. Almost all is from the 1940s to 1970s.

This Nekrosoff tray is unsigned and corroded on top. Was there a simple way to clean?

This Reed and Barton muffineer is probably the only saleable piece.

 

Love the muffineer.

Dumb question for you, Terry, but . . . do all muffineers have different shapes for their holes (I see yours has some round holes and some diamond-shaped holes although they are in "separate" areas)?

 

I don't know the significance of them. It seems like about 5% of sugar shakers have multiple hole sizes.

 

It's not Marko, just has wear to the metal

 

Hi Terry,
Most everything you use to clean pewter will cause color change. I would do the cheap olive oil soak for a week or so. If you want a fast clean use a good silver polish and do the whole thing. After a while it will start to darken a bit. Be sure to really wash it in hot soapy water first. If you get a bit of grit remaining it will scratch the hell out of the pewter. Also use a very soft clean cloth, no scrubbies or anything.
greg

 

Bought the book shown below at a church charity sale Saturday. Everything was clearly marked price-wise, and I was given a large grocery bag at the door and told that everything you could fit in the bag would be a total of $10.00. I was very happy with that and then, lo and behold, while standing in the checkout line with my bag filled to the brim with 9 books and 5 household items, they announced a bag would be $1.00, which is what I paid. The book I am most pleased with (see below) thus cost me less than 8 cents ($.08).

It is an Olney Hymns book, published in 1855 by T. Nelson and Sons, London: Edinburgh: and New York, 348 numbered pages including the index.

 

good for you , Yourturn...!

 

Well, I actually did a rare thing and bought something at a b and m store yesterday. 20% off sale, so I had to look. But DH wasn't so sure except that I said that the granddaughters would like it and it was Mother's Day. He had to give in. The shop owner said that it was at least 40 years old. I dunno, must've been in a weird mood, but it appealed to me. Balinese?

 

Hang on, have to resize.