That desk is NICE looking. It might be older than you think too. I'd get some good pictures of the dovetails or drawer joints, drawer bottoms...
That trade piece is NICE. The copy isn't bad either. :-)
Welcome from another New England junque junkie! I'm in Connecticut, but have relatives in Maine. I'm a bit of a magpie too, and my hoarding...
Numbers 5 and 6 are more likely to be 80s. The findings are wrong to be much earlier. The rest are all probably mid 60s to early 70s.
Swarthmore is probably the answer. It was in a random junk jewelry lot that turned out to have an old gold nurse's pin in it. Melted that, but...
I found this in a pile of stuff. It looks like a watch winder and it's definitely a gold-filled fob. One side is marked KWINK, possibly an old...
I don't even have a real one, never mind vintage. Oh well.
It starts out bright flaming orange.
Manganese will do that too; manganese glass lights up like a beacon under black light. The brooch with the glow is brand new of course.
Nice pile of pearls! I'd be betting on freshwaters, but the only real way to know for sure what you've got is an x-ray. If those darned things...
Please please please give me that problem.(LOL) I've only found one piece of jet in the last decade, and no bog oak at all. We Americans don't...
I've had a few of them. They sell a lot better than they hold all my junk.
Jelly Belly jewelry is made with clear lucite ONLY, although you'll find all sorts of bits labeled jelly these days, but lucite comes in all...
The mark on the bottom looks Chinese, and it doesn't read as old. Beyond that... dunno.
I'd call 40s to early 1950s Mishmosh on it and say good luck. @verybrad may well know better and be more accurate. Most times we need maker's...
Baltimore & Ohio! Been in their museum more than once. I'd guess 1920s is about right, and yes for oiling locomotives.
But beware the collectibles. They will jump out and bite your weight allowance!
it's dry and sunny here now, but the internet is down at my house. Service outage. I'm in at the library for the moment; my phone doesn't have a...
It's a fragment of something, possibly even a rosary. Wall rosaries can get pretty big.
We love dumpster divers (skip dippers if one is British) in here. Welcome!
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