Featured New year auction wins

your too funny evey, will get some pics did tomoz
maybe french jet on the black and yellow, looks more plasticky on the yellow though, dont think glass, bit of age though

agree with you on the glass red

 

also looks like the black and yellow is a string length and not clasped

broken ?

 

It's certainly possible. Old stringing made of cotton dies early and often.

 

Also came to say….the tray!

 

thanks mate

thats what i like about it, surprising what people can see in an item from 1 pic

and whether they would have bid on it as well

i think you can always tell, even from a thumbnail pic

 

I love to scroll through FB marketplace listings. I can literally turn my brain off and scroll with eyes half shut but still pick out the 1/1000 interesting things worth looking at from the thumbnails.

At 5 quid it’s hard to go too wrong. Looks like you did well! I’d have taken a gamble on it for sure.

 

im obsessed by chinese/japanese collectables. pottery/jewelry etc

just what my soul whats to find

 

this was on sale, but just looks totally wrong, the base looks convincingish but certainly not right

https://www.easyliveauction.com/cat...ar-auction-antiques-vintage-and-coll-lot-634/

 

I hear ya. Me too! I’ve got a nice tray around here somewhere. I’ll snap a pic. Actually I know exactly what pile it’s at the bottom of!

The piece you linked above is pretty but I’d put my money on pretty new.

 

Yeah wasn't fooled at all by it, someone was though !

This was pretty cool though, would n't have been able to do anything with it though

https://www.easyliveauction.com/cat...ar-auction-antiques-vintage-and-coll-lot-167/

 

A Chinese seal I hummed and arrrred about, but think it might have been stained ivory

Only £13 quid though

 

Definitely a nice little set.

Here are two trays I have. Little one marked .950.

 

Man, the big one is aaaawesome

 

Thanks! I like it a lot. Too bad it’s so damn worn but gives it a certain charm.

 

A story to tell in that one, a good clean would transform it into something else

Copper base ?

Maybe a good ketchup bath

 

Maybe just to work on the main figure with the ketchup

Once you bring that out, everything else is insignificant

 

all very good buys !!!!

the amber came in a lovely vintage case, and has a tested solid gold clasp

the two modern ones are solid silver as well

red beads aren't amber but glass as i thought

the venetian beads are stunning

chinese tray is awesome but not silver me thinks

who needs charity shops anymore

 

i'd like to say i got up early with a zest of enthusiasm

but no , 2pm had to get a taxi

oh that bloody whisky

 

my vintage Chanel Coco Mademoiselle is on its last legs

i know it sounds a bit woofy, but doesnt smell like a ladies perfume at all

the amount of people who walk past, stop and question always made me smile

£1 at a carboot sale, think its gonna be alot more to buy

 

What does ketchup specifically do that other “cleaning agents” don’t?