Jewelry Chatroom Board

Hi Helen! Yes those were weird.

Think we are getting rain AGAIN today but I should not complain. So many have such loss. Hard to believe.

Katie

Morningggg!

These were in a very old chocolate box belonging to my grandmother. I am thinking Victorian. One (not shown, a sash clip) marked F.N. & Co.

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Thanks for looking everyone!

Katie

Leforme, do you think my butterfly is unmarked Weiss? There is one on Etsy that looks a LOT like it.

Oooooooooo that would be nice!

Katie

Hi Jo! Thanks so much! It was in a dollar bag of junky stuff. It was just shining out at me, so I brought it home.

We are all fine here after some horrific snowstorms that brought down whole trees. As we do our yard work ourselves it has taken a while--but I am down to the skinny sticks now.

Will check out the site you gave me. Thanks so much. I love this stuff.

Katie

Good morning everyone! I have not been here in ages. Haven't had much to look at.

I have two pictures (not terrific) of what I THINK is a Juliana butterfly. Any ideas?

It is FINALLY warm(ish) here!!!

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Thanks for looking, everyone!

Katie

Char, my thoughts exactly. No name, no nuthin'. But the circle pin is very sweet. May keep it!
Thank you!

Katie

Hi Amber!

Hi everyone! Nice to see so many chatting here.

I know I should have taken pix of the backs, and I will. I am curious about the age of these two garage sale finds.

The small one with amethyst color stones and faux pearls is a pin and a pendant.

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Thanks everyone!

Good evening! Waiting on some corn bread in the oven, then will heat up the soup.

Shelly was it you that had the elephant bracelet? I dropped mine and broke some of the black out, and can't find the broken piece. Hanging into it in case I find it and can reglue it.

Katie

By the way there are no loops or other way to attach, so I don't know if they broke off a long time ago or if they are not even buttons.

Happy New Year everyone! It's warm & sunny in Missouri (wasn't a few days back) and I am full of very peppery roasted tomato and basil soup--we stopped at our fave place on the way home from returning things that did not fit, etc.

I have these metal buttons that I now believe we got in Iran in the 1950s, I think they are copper. A magnet does not stick. I am trying to figure out how old they are and a possible value as I do wish to sell (locally). They are 1 3/4" across. Ideas?

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Thanks everyone!

Katie

Happy New Year to all!

Katie

I won't do it again, I promise. It actually was under the metal and you can't see it. I also forgot to mention the back is flat.

Katie

Leforme--I tried the pin test and it went in. I guess that means lucite? Thanks!

Hooray, all my dishes are done (we did our turkey today)! I can go to beddie bye!

Katie

Good morning everyone! Surely EVERYONE isn't out shopping? I hope everyone had a great day and has a great weekend!

I found this at a nearby garage sale, and alcohol dripped on does not make it tacky. It is warm to the touch.
The silver looks like plate. Inside looks like bits of leaves.

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Ideas, anyone? It's almost 2" long by 1 1/8" wide. Thanks ever so much.

Katie

Hi Reen!

Gooood morning everyone. I know I don't come here to talk much but I do read the board and have learned so much in the short time the new boards have been up!

Doreen love your mare & foal!

I am just now noticing the advertising collectibles board, and as DH was IN advertising for 40 years
we should have some stuff around.

I often look at jewelry on eBay as years ago three things (actually many more) were stolen in a break-in:
International Silver sterling large seagull hair clasp or barrette, my Confirmation cross with a toothmark on it, and a cabochon garnet pin left to me by a dear friend of the family.

I actually found the identical seagull on a selling site, sadly it was already sold and no information was forthcoming. I keep thinking these things will turn up but it was over 30 years ago. I would know the cross in a second, and I have a different one my mother left me.

Funny how this just popped into my head today.

Katie

They were probably melted down ages ago and the pin, who knows.

My poor nose feels like it's been peeled like an onion, and my eyes don't even want to be in my head. I managed to get bedspreads washed, etc. and some things sold today. Hooray.

Katie

Sorry I bailed like that--I had a huge allergy attack and it laid me out flat.

Glitz I am at home, will be taking off from MCI Tuesday for El Paso, then drive to Silver City, NM. Be back two weeks later.

Katie

Jeeze I will be in KC (well the airport) on Tuesday. Back in two weeks from that day!

Latie

I am sorry to hear of her passing, Leon. Prayers for your family at this hard time.

Katie

I just scrolled down and saw Leon's sad news. The brother in law I will visit soon suffers with it as well.

Katie

Where are ya, Glitz? Shall I stop on the way to NM from MO? Have Lysol Wipes, will travel.

Katie

Ha! I just finished dragging a bunch of heavy Maple limbs around (they fell out of my old Maple tree)! No ironing today.

Mim, glad to see you!! I bet the hot iron killed any germ a-lingering in those diapers. I remember Mr. Greenjeans and Romper Room!

My sister irons everything and so did my mother. She had an old soda bottle with a shaker cap and she would sprinkle water on the clothes and press. I remember the sounds, and the smell of the hot cotton, so clean after hanging in the sun. I have an old wooden ironing board that I of course have padded well to use, wouldn't give it up for anything. We were living in a house that was in dispute in an estate (we didn't own it, just rented). The woman who supposedly owned it was threatening to burn it down.

My mother, while we were moving out, supervised the move as I had a new baby. I actually had gone on ahead of the packers and movers so when the van arrived in Missouri, it had a bunch of stuff on it that had been in the house that actually was to stay with it. A windsor chair and the ironing board were in this batch, as my mother could not bear to see it burned. There were old trunks in the attic, you name it was up there and I think this gal made good on her promise because one day there was no house. Glad my mother
did what she did.

Katie

Well, thank goodness mothers nursed their babies then, at least that protected them a little from disease. And no Pampers--I tried the cloth diapers but I didn't do a good job of it and my youngest got diaper rash (I changed him often, switched soaps, everything). I can imagine the white diapers fluttering from the mast in the breeze.

Windows washed, floor washed, and a lot of organizing done.

Katie

leforme: Looking up Biedermeier as we speak...always learning something new. Thanks for looking at it!! Everyone here is so nice.

Katie

Imagine sailing home with a newborn. Cripes. I come from a long line of tough cookies.

I have no idea. I just know it was made for the ship's captain's (great great grandfather) cabin in the 1880s. I think I have papers saying it was 1883, and probably made for my great-great grandmother who sailed with him. My mother's grandfather (I think) was born in France as they had to put in to Le Havre so she could have the baby. The hospital raised an American flag so he would also have an American birth certificate, as well as a French one. I have a copy. In French.

Katie

Woops, forgot my manners. Good morning everyone.

Here is my highboy. Closeup of the Sandwich glass knobs were awful. The piece is 56" tall X 44" wide, X 20 1/2" (just over) deep. Remember it was made to fit in a Captain's cabin on a ship from the 1880s. It has two cracks in the side.
I wonder if they should be repaired.

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Those legs are one piece.

Katie

Those are PRIMITIVES. Some days I can not use the keyboard at all...fumbly fingers.

Somehow I got sidetracked with Farm Market and I admit I went to 3 sales. I spent a whopping $1.25 and
bought a Fire-King percolator top, latch hook for hooking rugs, and an Irish tea towel, new.

Pix tomorrow. I did list 2 Pat Pearson primites framed in Georgia Heart Pine on CL.

Katie

You know, I don't have any good pictures of the highboy but I will get one. The bed is disassembled (I chose to leave the mattress for the dumpster) and wrapped up. The litle dog in the red coat--Cairn or Westie?

Yipes, I will fall over in a heap if I don't get to bed.

I will mosey back in probably in the morning. For some reason I am tired (wrangling two dogs, taking one to be bathed, etc., retina exam, stripping the beds and remaking them, laundry, dinner, making cookies )...butter cookie anyone?

Katie

Let's try these newer, bigger pix.

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Better?

Katie

That was almost readable. I am thrilled ABOUT HAVING the furniture. Cripes. Classic case of brains and fingers not speaking to each other.

Katie

Glitz, I don't know. I will post the bigger pix and maybe you can tell. Looks like the loop that snap closed (painfully I might add) is missing from one. And I am thrilled the furniture. If the jewelry is gold (does not attract a magnet)
I will sell ONLY if things get tougher here. We have an electric guitar up for sale on CL and youngest is parting out his Ludwig drums and Zildjian cymbals.

Making a donation of clean dog bed, towels and sheets to no-kill animal shelter. That feels right.

And what the heck bit me?? It's not poison ivy, and is mildly itchy, flat rash about the size of a quarter. Been there over a week. I wake up scartching it and it makes me mad, have to get up and apply Neosporin.

The highboy and robe bed were made for the ship, so they are unusual sizes. The knobs on the highboy are Sandwich glass made in Massachusetts.

Katie

Glitz & Leon, thank you! I will have it checked by my "gold guy" who is really good. I will see if I can enlarge the pix.

They were in a box in the highboy, and also three family Bibles that go back over 200 years, beautiful damask napkins (now clean and de-yellowed and pressed), beautiful baby bonnets and bibs (one crocheted), a baby dress
(now hanging in the bedroom on an old fashioned baby hanger). The dress could easily belong to my great grandfather who was born during a voyage on his father's ship, around about the time the highboy was made.

Katie

Ooops, I mean the "old" Jewelry Board!

I think I posted these a long time ago on the "old" Glass Board. They were in an 1880s highboy that has been in my family since the 1880s.

I know one is a watch fob. And one is a sort of buckle. I believe they are gold. However they are unmarked.

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Anything anybody wants to say about these, jump in please. I remember nothing of what I was told last time. Thanks everybody!

Katie

Good morning! Whew! I thought at first I couldn't join...I would sure miss all the great help I have gotten on the eBay jewelry chat.

Happy to see all these nice boards flourishing!

Katie