Featured Finds Thread

When I was young my father would take us to abandoned tourmaline mines.Black tourmaline crystals were in the mine dumps ,we probably collected more than 3 large coffee cans of crystals.
https://www.firemountaingems.com/shop/tourmaline-beads-blacks

 

https://cameotimes.com/index.php/profiles-1/allegorical/days-of-the-week

 

Schorl didn't get any respect after the fashion for mourning jewelry petered out.

 

Pickings have been GRIM lately ,I refuse to pay the prices they are asking ! That being said,heres a few finds of late...
Oil on wood ,known artist ,and I just LOVE it ! Veddy 80s sensibility,and yall know I love the 80s ! I paid $3 .


9 inch MCcoy (velum?)


3 inch high cased glass vase,the color is so rich my pics dont do it justice.

 

That yellow cased glass ... I'd have bagged that too.

 

Thank you!

 

You're welcome.

 

I think that yellow cased was made in Empoli.

 

Bought all this at auction in a number of mixed lots. Coalport, Royal Worcester, Thoune, Hanke, Faience, Iznik (style), Japanese Imari and Casasus Spain, Royal Crown Derby, Echwald (plus a fair bit of junk)

 

A few from a recent estate sale.
Mason's Ironstone dish 1830s-40s

Red Wing jug 1877-1910

Reed and Barton sterling dinner bell

Sterling concho belt

 

Lucky stiff - you're finding something in the Ill Will besides empty shelves and ... ill will?

 

WOWZER on the sterling!

 

I went to a local antique mall Monday. They really did a beautiful job with it when they were closed, it looks like a museum it is so well laid out and displayed.

Well, it is a challenge to find any bargains there, the owner and other dealers go over everything that comes in with a fine tooth comb.

But they missed this unmarked sterling Navajo pillow necklace that was sold as costume for $10


I have been wanting a mosiac cross, I saw one at my flea market for $30, this will do for $8



And I have been wanting this since the mall closed down in March due to Covid-19. I debated spending the money, but when I couldn't find it in the dealer's case, I was so disappointed. I was looking in the wrong case. 14k angel brooch, I have one similar in sterling.




I went out yesterday, need to photograph some more. Not anything spectacular....seems a lot is going on this coming weekend, and I can't decide where to go first to go hunting.

 

Last weekend's stuff, at least the pieces worth photographing. I found some vintage Sony electronics - a Watchman, sport Walkman etc too, and some envelopes.

What I did find... A glass apple, marked Tiffany & Co, a brass Buddha head, a brass modern letter opener, CBS Television pens, a Waterford ornament, souvenir ornament from a local museum, a sterling and CZ cross of no particular note and.... a signed Baccarat crystal ruler. It's engraved for some corporate event in 1989 and has a chip on one end, but the new ones retail at $500 and this was $2. I wasn't arguing. The lady/whatever is a very nicely carved Alaska souvenir.

 

I have that same Tiffany apple! Mine was from Goodwill, I think it was $1.99, I've had it for several years now. The price sticker was right over the Tiffany mark....!
$1.99

 

Beautiful pieces!!

 

@Marko That sterling silver necklace is stunning! I'm shocked that they could have skipped over that.

 

The lady/whatever is a very nicely carved Alaska souvenir.

no..
more of a Southwest corn maiden or Katsina looking thing..

 

What is the lidded jar (?) with blue & white horizontal stripes & something written on it. I like the simplicity.

 

According to Taupou she's a Navajo souvenir piece. I still like the carving on it though.