Now Hear This! Take A Closer Look-A Rose Isnt Just A Rose-Dont Get Caught In A Web

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Now Hear This! Take A Closer Look-A Rose Isn't Just A Rose-Don't Get Caught In A Web

Sorry for the stupid title. I got a variety of finds this weekend so I may be a little long winded.

First estate sale I went to didn't have much of anything that I usually look for. I did however manage to make lemonade out of lemons when I found these two bags of stuff that I paid $3 for. In the first bag was a working 4gb 1st Gen. Ipod and in the second bag was a bunch of hearing aid paraphernalia. I don't know anything about hearing aid stuff but I remember hearing of a cochlear ear implant so I bought it based on the name and the fact that she practically gave it top me. I spent a total of $11 at this sale. The other stuff was household stuff. Hear, I mean here are the pics-





In the first bag was this stuff-



The last completed listings on ebay show the charger selling for between $100 and $130. I can only find 1 completed listing for the batteries, a pair of them sold for a best offer somewhere south of $300. The other box is a microphone protector, applicator 7 removal tool. Last one sold for $30. I have 1 in the box and 1 without the box.

The next items came from a private estate sale that I was invited to down in S. Miami. Got there a few minutes late so most of the really good items had been discovered and snatched up by the other 3 buyers there. But I did manage to get this really cool Bausch & Lomb microscope that dates to 1936. It has 3 eyepieces and 3 objectives. The box has a lock and key.



At the same sale I found 3 pieces of silver. A beat up demitasse spoon, a vintage Taxco rose brooch, and a life sized long stemmed rose that is marked 925 and has Italian hallmarks and makers marks.



Here are the marks on the rose-



Some paperweights including a nice signed D. Bagwell (with the flowers) and one even nicer one signed Orient & Flume (with the spider).



Some other stuff I got there were a set of 24k plated Janis Collection corn butter spoons (value ?), a crystal ball shaped ashtray (value $25-$30), a lucite display paperweight "The Shrinking Dollar" not much value but I like anything to do with money. Plus a couple other bubble glass paperweights.

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Almost forgot, I got these vintage Dansk and Nordic Nob Hill tapered candles too. They sell pretty well. I already have a couple of the spider candleholders. I just need to find the box of Dansk stuff that I have. dansk tapered candles | eBay



I paid $75 for everything at the private estate sale.

 

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Last but not least was this Atari Flashback 2 that I got for $5 at a yard sale on the way home.




Not pictured- I also went to a sale at a Greek Orthodox Church and found some vintage 1984 posters. One of Madonna, Prince, Van Halen (David Lee Roth in Chaps) and Cyndi Lauper. $1 each. At the same sale I found a 1979 oil on canvas (rolled up like a poster) of Elvis signed by Lawrence Williams from Boxcar Enterprises (same $1). The only info I can find on this is that only 18 of them were ever made. I find that hard to believe with 5 listed on Ebay right now and 4 that have sold recently. I wonder how many fake ones there are and how to tell the difference? Size maybe? It looks like this-

 

[vpnavy]

Nice buys diggummup - thanks for sharing...

 

[clovis97]

Wow, Dig...just wow.

Your picks are just stunning.

I need to move to Florida. I just don't see the quality around here like you find.

Nice picks!!! Congrats!!!

 

[jerseyben]

Man, you kicked my butt in finds this weekend. Congrats on the great scores!

 

[diggummup]

Thanks for the replies. I found 1 spider paperweight like mine that sold for $100 at a local auction in 2007 for $100 but (after some research I found out) it was a "factory seconds," marked with the date and initialed O & F only, versus having Orient & Flume spelled out, artists initials, date and pattern code. ORIENT & FLUME GLASS PAPERWEIGHT SPIDER . It looks like their pieces are selling pretty good nowadays. I'm gonna list mine for $149.99.

The sterling rose is my favorite piece besides the paperweight. It's 16 inches long and weighs 45 grams. I see where one set of leaves has had an attempted repair to it. Looks like it broke off at the stem and someone used lead solder to fix it. I will take it to my jeweler and he'll fix it up for me for $5 or $10 bucks. I only have $5 in it so it's worth it. My wife is an Elvis fanatic so she kind of laid claim to him. I researched the posters and found out they are all worth about $10-$15 each so that's good.

 

[2Minnesota]

Love the paperweights! Good finds, thanks for sharing!

 

[diggummup]

Love the paperweights! Good finds, thanks for sharing!

I almost don't want to sell the spider one. But I know I will. I already sold $130 worth of the hearing aid stuff overnight.

 

[2Minnesota]

I would keep the spider!!