Featured Finds Thread

Thanks. I couldn't believe no one else scoped it and scooped it!

 

Finally got this to load. it's the other photo. I think the earrings are amethyst and iolite. It's hard to see without a light behind.

 

Thanks. The bots have been having a field day. I wish we could block them.

 

It is a great find, but it doesn't have the sheen and intense blackness of my Whitby jet pieces. This type of locket is usually gutta percha or vulcanite. My guess is yours is the first.

Some antique Whitby jet jewellery from a shop in Whitby, so they know their stuff:

https://eborjetworks.co.uk/product-...shop/whitby-jet-jewellery/antique-whitby-jet/

 

Thanks, that makes it very clear even when not in hand.
Not solid black - not Whitby jet
Inside decoration - not Whitby jet
The bail looks like an attachment which is impossible to make in Whitby jet.
As I said, Ruth's locket, while pretty, is not Whitby jet.

Some more info, including lookalikes (I have posted these two links before):
https://whatiswhitbyjet.com/2020/08/20/how-to-identify-antique-whitby-jet-jewellery/

And the lookalikes:
https://gem-a.com/gem-hub/whitby-jet-rings-necklace-jewellery-simulants/

 

Nice!

 

I found a new thrift I missed for years. I think some are restrung. Did they string on wire back in the day? One broke while they were wrapping them, so it was a freebie. The jeweled clasps on the dark green and lavender are marked Czechoslovakia. I left a few really short ones, regretting it, wasn't sure the beads were vintage....$6 each.
The broken beads are also marked Czechosolvakia on the bejeweled clasp. You can see the wire they are on.
Below, a type of bakelite? $3

Beliw, posting on the jewelry boatd, $3, new clasp.

 

The colored beads look like they've all been restrung - probably had to be if they were on cotton. Cotton dies with a dirty look. Old improperly done wire restringing comes apart. I'd say the bracelet looks too new to be bakelite.

 

That's a great site, thank you!!!!!!

 

Jet for sure . I checked. No doubt whatever.

 

I don't see Whitby jet. There are different types of jet, like the Spanish jet mentioned in the link. But none of them have the deep black colour and the sheen of Whitby jet.

Even if the photos don't show the locket to its advantage, and the resemblance I see to gutta percha is not there in real life, or there is no lighter coloured wear above the hinge, there is still #10 in the link Davey posted, the one about inside decorations.

 

It left a brown streak, and I showed it to Bear who concurred that it's jet. Also, I read Davey's link and...no match to gutta percha, not in person.