Featured Finds Thread

This weekend's finds. Really hitting a quiet patch on the jewelry front, hoping that changes soon. Until then, I've got some nice bits of costume I can share.

Unmarked nice costume, bought in a lot so less than 2 euros. Missing a couple stones.



Got these pearls at a vide grenier yesterday, 1 euro! All real, when hung over the neck it reaches my hips.



And this was this morning's find, a set of enamel pots in near perfect condition for 5 euros the set. Its marked Yugoslavia so they're not new. Great addition to my kitchenware collection!

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If I go, it's bound to be junk. If I stay home, the next week I hear about someone else's score from another person who went to the sale. Never fails.

 

You are so right! She was a nice lady not knowing where to go for help. I told her which things to put on Craig's list, which for a consignment shop, which to send to the Habitat for Humanity Restore and which for a thrift store donation. She was very grateful for the help

 

That was so kind of you after going through that drive to disappointment. Hopefully she uses your advice!

 

The universe will reward you for your patience and compassion.

 

Good Karma will come your way for your kindness.

 

I would be happy if good Karma sent 25 boxes of Depression glass my way

 

I wouldn't be able to pick it up. 25 boxes of jewelry...I'd be careful and split it up!

FINALLY got something this weekend. The whole-street sale was almost a total bust. I found a stone bracelet to break up and bought lemonade from a kid. Beforehand I found another sale advertised as starting earlier. Spent $5, and then hit a house that a guy was cleaning out and flipping. Not advertised. Spent $35. On the way home was a moving sale - Soviet-era Russian hallmarks, Siberian jade earrings, probable horn cicada etc... $20 for the pile. The person I expected to have to fight for everything must have gone elsewhere, because she's looking for gold and jade. The cameo is in a 9k setting of no great greatness, but I wasn't arguing.

 

Ahhh! Snake bracelet! And the cicada. I live for that kind of stuff.

 

They couple were some of those late 80s Russian Jewish immigrants. We got a bunch. The jewelry was stuff she probably brought along and was sick of. I only wish the cicada was imperial amber, but no such luck. Oh. Well.

 

The cicada is adorable!

 

A bug and a snake!!! That cicada is to die for. And the universe rewarded you for buying that lemonade. I believe when you give, you receive. I participated in an online auction, it was a disaster, they charged a buyers premium (was expected), shipping was a tad up there, but the $7.50 handling fee sent me over the edge. Photos tomorrow....and wait until you see what we have in common.

 

Handling fee..?
that's a rude cash grab...

 

A buyer's premium AND a handling fee? Somebody gettin' greedy up in there.

 

Yes, buyers fee of about $7, shipping for two pins $10.99 (sent USPS flat rate boxed), "handling"$7.50. I could have driven 40 miles to pick it up. I like what I got, but never again with this company. I missed out on a 14k past present future diamond ring by $10, went for $380. Got these two Watson sterling brooches. They were only $34, but the fees whacked them up. I do love the cicada.

 

Handling fees. Pfft.

 

They're cute, but at that price it would have been a hard pass from me, given the crazy fees they tacked on.

 

Yeah, the shipping and handling were a surprise.

 

That's one of the things eBoo has going for it - shipping is spelled out up front. Most auction houses do have it in the fine print somewhere, but watch out of for "ranges".

 

I'm up to my stupid tricks again: bicycling the Oregon Coast and being unable to stay out of antique stores:





And here's some sunset pics: