Featured Finds Thread

sorry king i don't see any tent ones, but they are mostly B.C. Canada

 

It was so hard to see I assumed it was a military camp!

 

nope just tourist ones. i think 50's and up

 

I agree....but it seems sort of sad when bubble-wrap is an exciting find.
We gotta get a life....or lives.

 

no one said exciting , it was more economical lol

 

I like the car full of flowers. Hey, I go dumpster diving at Pier 1 Imports, they have great packing materials. Bubble wrap is EXPENSIVE. My favorite place to look is in back of the retail stores in Cape May. Last year, someone threw out a beautiful dress form, the modern kind on a wooden stand they use for displays. Dragged that home.

 

Great finds everyone.
Free bubble wrap, terrific score!

 

someone's always trying to burst our BUBBLE wrap heehee

 

,,,or how to keep small children of all ages occupied for hours.

 

I was number 29 in line to get in. Lots of competition ahead of me. This was four bucks.

13 loth. 1831. No glass. But there was a Finnish silver spoon in it.

 

Nice, Terry!!

 

This box will be a lot of fun.

I picked out all the plate except for the French ladle and these picks.

DS Co patent JAN 18 76?

 

I love those tiny spoons with red handles.

 

And I see some of great-grandma's spoons in there, the floral ones. She had the same pattern. It was in great shape because it was service for 6 and she had eight kids.(LOL) I used to love those big Parker(?) ballpoints as a kid, unless you lucked out and that's a fountain pen. Those were even better.

 

It's a Sheaffer knock off of the Parkers.

The red enamel spoons look nearly identical to some Aksel Holmsen spoons I had but they're Finnish by Kultateollisuus.

 

I just spent a while running through all the parts of Davis and Deibel that cover that period of time, Terry, regardless of maker. No match. I was hoping it might be Derby. Maybe Cheryl will know.

Sorry.

 

Pretty similar to the Derby multi motif line of 1875 but without the bow. I would guess that's who it is.

I think it's the first time I have seen hanging game on flatware.

 

Me either. Plates and really bad oil paintings yes, flatware no.

 

The patent was issued to Edwin L. Brittin, he was plant manager and salesman at Derby silver at the time - possibility it was never a named pattern. There is an 1847 Rogers pattern with hanging birds called 'Game' that was introduced in 1892.

Bakersgma - I'm not at home to look, but might also find the same pattern with a Rogers & Brittin mark or Holmes & Edwards, and below is a link to a set of forks bearing a 'Wm. Rogers & Son' mark.

The patent number is D8910, showing forks with a rabbit, prairie-chicken, and woodcock, your nut-picks appear to show a woodcock and squirrel (appropriately), and the linked forks appear to have a pair of ducks. Associated patents are #D8909, with a 'Chinaman' bearing a yoke with hanging game, and #D8911, a fish knife with hanging fish, and a neriad riding a sea-horse and dolphin on the blade.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Set-of-6-Wi...111533?hash=item25befe112d:g:ESEAAOSwNuxXcI2q

~Cheryl

 

D&D only have 3 patterns for Rogers and Brittin and this isn't one of them. Their Holmes and Edwards pattern section is much longer, but again, no match.

I thought about the "Game" pattern too (I think I have a few of the cocktail forks.)

Rogers and Derby "shared" so many designs over the years, I am not surprised to see that listing you found, Cheryl! Unfortunately, it was a busy day, so I didn't have time to go snooping.