Featured Finds Thread

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by verybrad, May 25, 2014.

  1. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    Wow, just Wow:)
     
  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    enjoy the downtime........!!
     
  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Enjoy your new accommodations, but I hope you laid in enough TP for all the trips to the loo.
     
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  4. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    DSCF3676.JPG I just re-found the pieces and made them into the bracelet. The dangles are all trolley or early bus tokens; one is dated 1924 and another one is from Honolulu. I don't think they're any too valuable, but they're cool.
     
  5. terry5732

    terry5732 Well-Known Member

    And here I'm always trying to rescue them from jewelry.
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    99.99% were made in huge numbers and never thrown away
     
  6. cxgirl

    cxgirl Well-Known Member

    are they bus tokens Terry?
     
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  7. daveydempsey

    daveydempsey Moderator Moderator

    Transit tokens, bus tokens, bridge toll tokens, tax tokens, I see many here from over there.
    There are collectors for them and they do sell.
     
  8. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

     
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  9. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    Just watched Bargain Hunt. Gary Pe, the "expert" produced his bargain buy and said "this is a genuine antique, it was made in the mid 1900's" Now I believe the mid 1900's put it at 1950's, but the "expert" spoke, so it must be a "genuine antique"
     
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  10. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    How old is Gary Pe?
     
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  11. Houseful

    Houseful Well-Known Member

    I remember in Anita Mannings early appearances she used to pronounce Clarice Cliff Fantasque ceramic design as Fantastique.
     
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  12. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    I looks as if he is in his late fifties, early sixties.
     
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  13. Bronwen

    Bronwen Well-Known Member

    He should know better.
     
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  14. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    There is a dealer we will forever call "klitchy" He was talking about a Clichy sulphide paperweight and kept saying "klitchy" Another had to pick something in an auction they were at and he decided to talk about a Louis Icart print. He pronounced his name "Lewis Eye cart" These are the "experts" chosen by the tv programmes, so they must be right.
     
  15. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    I agree. As an "expert" chosen to be on the tv show, he should have a basic knowledge.
     
  16. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    He's an antique himself, according to that. The one that got me was watching a young Youtuber who said "this sweatshirt is early 90s reverse weave; it's vintage."
     
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  17. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    That made me laugh.
     
  18. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I don't drill holes in coins or tokens, but if they come with holes they're fair game. (LOL)
     
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  19. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    I've always said "old" is defined as anything made before you were! Some kids are collecting cell phones! The go with their parents' calculators.
     
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  20. popsycat

    popsycat Well-Known Member

    Heck, I am antique now judging by what some call antiques.
     
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