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In one of the multi-dealer antique shops I frequent, there is a dealer who sells only silver plated flatware. Place pieces are only $1 a piece. Serving pieces are $3 each. I like to rummage though her bins searching for her mistakes.
A couple of months ago, I found a plain sterling silver baby feeding spoon for a dollar. Yesterday, I found an American coin silver tea knife, a s/s handled butter knife (for a $1 each) and .833 purity Dutch silver serving spoon (for $3).
I've had an amazing week buying at antique shops! At one shop, while I was working there, one of the shop dealers had several framed antique Japanese woodblock prints. First, I bought this one for $28 just because I liked it:
Then, there was another framed Japanese woodblock print for $60. And actually, I pointed it out to a dealer passing through. She passed on it, saying that "it was only a print". Well durr!!! It's a woodblock print!! So after she left the shop, I decided to buy it for myself. I take it home and start to do some research on it. And one like it just sold at Christie's in June for $20K!!! Thank goodness, that stupid dealer passed on buying it!!
I do love Kalamata olives... but that's way too much sodium for me at my age! I would fill this dish with raw whole almonds, M&M's or Smarties. No sure which pattern bon bon server to use with it though.
I collect the Royal Doulton animals. I'm not a fan of the ladies or the tobey jugs. And the animals have to have some age to them. The newer ones aren't decorated as well.
I forgot, I also bought a Carlsbad porcelain paperweight with a transferware US flag on it. I thought that my husband might like it. It was only $10. The flag has only 45 stars in the blue field, which should date the piece to around 1896-1908.
I love Royal Doulton animals and some of the figurines (not the toby jugs). I have two of the historical English ladies - Lady Jane Grey and Eleanor of Provence - and would love to get more of the Tudor ladies, but I don't have much more room even if I wanted to spend to get them all (and Henry VIII himself). I have two Royal Doulton dogs - the Labrador Retriever and the Irish Setter, that my mother bought some 40-50 years ago. I also have Omar Khayyam; another impulse purchase at an antique store; he wasn't expensive and I couldn't resist him.
I've had an amazing week buying at antique shops! At one shop, while I was working there, one of the shop dealers had several framed antique Japanese woodblock prints. First, I bought this one for $28 just because I liked it:
Then, there was another framed Japanese woodblock print for $60. And actually, I pointed it out to a dealer passing through. She passed on it, saying that "it was only a print". Well durr!!! It's a woodblock print!! So after she left the shop, I decided to buy it for myself. I take it home and start to do some research on it. And one like it just sold at Christie's in June for $20K!!! Thank goodness, that stupid dealer passed on buying it!!
Bought a ziplock snack baggie labeled "cufflinks lot" for $20 yesterday. Must have all come from one persons dresser box. Everything really dirty and tarnished. Wiped everything down with Windex and a paper towel, and everything started to look very nice! So for $20, these are the treasures that were in the bag:
1. Pair of Japanese Shakudo cufflinks
2. Pair of blue guilloche enamel snap cuff buttons
3. Pair faux amethyst gold-filled cufflinks
4. Tiny Shriners 14k white gold pin with a teeny diamond chip
5. 14k yellow gold lingerie clip with a tiny synthetic sapphire chip
6. 10k gold shirt button
7. Pair 10k white gold earrings with large blue stones
8. Sterling Unger Brothers oval clip
9. Tiny bar pin, perfect for a doll's dress
10. 13 misc. Shriners and Masonic pins
11. Money clip
12. Tiny skeleton key
So all in all, a very cool bag lot of stuff. Better than panning for gold in a stream!
My last antique stop was the Allen Antique Barn in Allen, MI. Spent $2 and walked away with a hockey yearbook from '77 and a large, huge actually, roadmap of the Netherlands.
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