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Collecting and Collectibles in Other Areas => General Discussion => Topic started by: erik1925 on April 28, 2015, 07:34:20 PM
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Meaning, things that you happened to trip across or find, not so much things being sought out for. Let alone found things on the highways and bi-ways.
A few weeks ago, i was down doing a run along the bike paths and something glinted in the sand, to my right. I initially ran by it, then went back, thinking it was a sliver earring. I picked it up and found it to be a woman's silver (looking) ring and maybe diamonds, set in a channel design. Junk or something else, I didn't know.
I took it to a jeweler this past weekend. Turns out to be made of platinum and set with real diamonds (8 total). A ballpark value, he said, was about $2100.00
Now to find a few posters, once i decide the best way to liquidate it. ;D
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Did you consider that it might have considerable sentimental value to the owner and that perhaps you should make some attempt to locate her?
Mark
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My mother who recently has been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease lost her wedding ring. Needless to say that she went to a great deal of distress more so because of her illness. It really broke our hearts seeing her night and day searching for it - so much so that my father bought her a new one pretending it was the lost ring. Luckily our local fishmonger found the ring inside their fish tank (don't ask!) and he really rushed to return it to my mother (she will never know she has two wedding rings now!).
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My mother who recently has been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease lost her wedding ring. Needless to say that she went to a great deal of distress more so because of her illness. It really broke our hearts seeing her night and day searching for it - so much so that my father bought her a new one pretending it was the lost ring. Luckily our local fishmonger found the ring inside their fish tank (don't ask!) and he really rushed to return it to my mother (she will never know she has two wedding rings now!).
Sorry to hear about your mum Rosa. Hoping for the best. Gee, it must be hard for all. Amazing you got the ring back!
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Thanks Steve. It is the hardest thing, but she is still the best, most wonderful mum. And yes, I guess we were lucky, we reported it to the police and spread the word around. It is a very small rural village, everyone knows each other by name (or nickname) so they knew about it and everyone had a look out for it.
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Thanks Steve. It is the hardest thing, but she is still the best, most wonderful mum. And yes, I guess we were lucky, we reported it to the police and spread the word around. It is a very small rural village, everyone knows each other by name (or nickname) so they knew about it and everyone had a look out for it.
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A bitter sweet story there Mirosae.
I found a £50 note lying in the middle of a small road once. It had been flattened somewhat by passing motorists but it was genuine. (Which is to say it was accepted by a shop)
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A bitter sweet story there Mirosae.
I found a £50 note lying in the middle of a small road once. It had been flattened somewhat by passing motorists but it was genuine. (Which is to say it was accepted by a shop)
I have a similar story
I remember finding $50 on Christmas day back around 1989 at a remote Australian town called Kalbarri half way up the west coast. I was on holiday during a summer work experience job (while in Uni) in Perth. I was walking the streets despondent on Chrismas Day wishing I had some money to hire a car to explore a nearby interesting sounding national park and at that moment I saw $50 in the grassy verge. Whoohoo! I couldn't believe it. I had traveled to Kalbarri by bus to walk around town, see some views. There was a petrol station open that hired out small Suzuki 4x4's. The money covered the rental for the day plus insurance and petrol. I was so excited. I could barely drive at that stage (it was the first time in a car driving by myself) and almost flipped the 4x4 on the dirt road leading into the National Park (going a bit too fast in excitement). But I got in there, explored a bit (was looking for kangaroos to photograph) and in the mean time found a rock to sit on (below) and there on top I unwrapped my Christmas presents from my family with no one around for miles. Just me and nature and nice thoughts from family. It was an moment and experience to treasure forever.
(http://www.weekendnotes.com/im/001/03/kalbarri-national-park-kalbarri-natures-window1.JPG) (http://www.weekendnotes.com/kalbarri-national-park/)
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Did you consider that it might have considerable sentimental value to the owner and that perhaps you should make some attempt to locate her?
Mark
Yes, Mark. Considering where I found it, I went to the main, local Life Guard office/building and police satellite office, also located at Venice beach, and both took pics as well as a detailed description (along with my information, number, etc) so that anyone who might have lost it had to give specifics about it, rather than just saying they had lost a ring.
So the info is out there. I was also told that, with it being a beach/tourist setting, it could have been lost by someone local, or by someone visiting from half way around the world. Time will tell. ;)
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Yes, Mark. Considering where I found it, I went to the main, local Life Guard office/building and police satellite office, also located at Venice beach, and both took pics as well as a detailed description (along with my information, number, etc) so that anyone who might have lost it had to give specifics about it, rather than just saying they had lost a ring.
So the info is out there. I was also told that, with it being a beach/tourist setting, it could have been lost by someone local, or by someone visiting from half way around the world. Time will tell. ;)
Since it is a wedding ring, there is also a possibility of someone throwing it toward the ocean as a statement. "I'm free of that jerk"
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Could be that, too, jayn. It looks like a more casual style, not a wedding ring.
And it also could have been dropped/tossed 2 months ago, or 5+ years ago. So it's hard to know for sure. dontknow.gif
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Yes, Mark. Considering where I found it, I went to the main, local Life Guard office/building and police satellite office, also located at Venice beach, and both took pics as well as a detailed description (along with my information, number, etc) so that anyone who might have lost it had to give specifics about it, rather than just saying they had lost a ring.
So the info is out there. I was also told that, with it being a beach/tourist setting, it could have been lost by someone local, or by someone visiting from half way around the world. Time will tell. ;)
That's good to hear Erik. As Rosa's sad story demonstrates lost rings can cause great emotional upset.
Mark
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For sure, Mark.We all have heard the stories, too, of a "ring lost down the drain" so there can be terrible (dis)stress, indeed, no matter how something like this is lost.
And there are people wandering the beaches with metal detectors every day, (around the globe im assuming). I can guarantee that anything found by those folks most likely end up in the new owner's jewelry box, and not reported. :-\
Jeff
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That sounds like a great time, Steve. cool1
Good find, Jeff, and very respectable of you to put the info. out there for the person who lost it. cool1
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Since it is a wedding ring, there is also a possibility of someone throwing it toward the ocean as a statement. "I'm free of that jerk"
True.
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That sounds like a great time, Steve. cool1
Good find, Jeff, and very respectable of you to put the info. out there for the person who lost it. cool1
It was a good find.. if for nothing more than to see if someone steps forward and makes a claim.
Will see what happens.
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Yes, Mark. Considering where I found it, I went to the main, local Life Guard office/building and police satellite office, also located at Venice beach, and both took pics as well as a detailed description (along with my information, number, etc) so that anyone who might have lost it had to give specifics about it, rather than just saying they had lost a ring.
So the info is out there. I was also told that, with it being a beach/tourist setting, it could have been lost by someone local, or by someone visiting from half way around the world. Time will tell. ;)
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Update: no word or call yet, from any potential owner, either.
So it remains sitting on my dresser. :D
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Update: no word or call yet, from any potential owner, either.
So it remains sitting on my dresser. :D
Cool.
So, liquidate it and split the take with me.
I'll delete this thread and no one will be the wiser.
That's what friends are for.
wynk
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cheers, Ted.
You are worthy... indeed!!
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I was in Yellowstone National Park awhile back and found $350 just sitting there on the grass. I was 13 or 14 at the time. So to find this was just amazing. We went to the office of the hotel and asked them if anyone reported any money missing and was told no. I hung onto the money until we left. I asked again before we left and no one had reported it. So I left with $350 in my pocket. I felt bad for whoever lost it though. That is a lot of money to some people.
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I was in Yellowstone National Park awhile back and found $350 just sitting there on the grass. I was 13 or 14 at the time. So to find this was just amazing. We went to the office of the hotel and asked them if anyone reported any money missing and was told no. I hung onto the money until we left. I asked again before we left and no one had reported it. So I left with $350 in my pocket. I felt bad for whoever lost it though. That is a lot of money to some people.
Karma and you reporting it rather than just up and walking away with the loot, rewarded you in the end, Randy.
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Now, if I could find $350 lying on the ground, I'd have just enough to buy a certain someone's Frankenstein's Army quad....
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Dammit, thats where that $350 went.. what year was that again.
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Dammit, thats where that $350 went.. what year was that again.
;D ;D
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thought i would share this, our local Salvation army has a monthly auction i stopped recently and won this for very cheap... I'm trying to figure out exactly what it is, looks like asian cherrywood but dont know from where exactly and what time period. The teeth on the one side of the dragon are dinged (bummer) but altogether a super nice piece, seems to be a pedestal of some sort, very heavy and around 22 inches in height. Oddly enough the colors aren't all that evident in real life but the camera flash makes them stand out I guess. Its Probably not worth a lot but I think its cool.
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/DSC_0615_zpsxdxjl5d8.jpg)
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/DSC_0618_zpsd3gsvqtr.jpg)
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/DSC_0622_zpslddgejgf.jpg)
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VERY cool, Vick. Nice find!
Are there any markings or anything like that, or a carved signature, on the bottom of the piece?
The top piece looks much lighter in color. Is the stain just not as heavy? Or has it worn off a bit?
How much would you guess that it weighs?
I love Asian art and carved pieces, too. I think (and am guessing totally) that this was made for the export market. The question is... when? ;)
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thanks Jeff I knew you would appreciate coming from picker country and all :) It weighs just under 30 pounds and yes the top seems to be different made, although equally old i think, and probably designed to be added rather than carved out along with the dragon. It looks like the same type of wood though. It has a grove along the edge like a butcher's block would too...
I know there`s a lot of woodwork out of Indonesia, but it does have a Chinese feel to it? No markings on any kind... that might mean export like you say. I was sure I'd find loads of similar pieces online but i'll have to keep looking. Maybe just email pictures to an asian art expert. My wife says its tacky. So naturally I love it even more now! thumbsup.gif
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Its cool... for sure.
Looking at the carving style, too, is what made me think it was more made for export.
30 pounds... heavy! thumbsup.gif
Congrats again. And yeah.. you might for sure find comp images online.
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THAT IS A REALLY COOL FIND! I'd be super excited to find something as exotic as that - 22" high is perfect!
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Great find Vick. I wonder what it was meant for..do you know?
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Thanks both. Yeah a bit of a mystery...looks like a pedestal but might be too short to be one!?! Then again, Asian people are generally shorter... (i can say that right?) like Jeff said could just be an export piece. I'll see if I can find me an expert somewhere and get more info.
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Then again, Asian people are generally shorter...
:P Have you seen Yao Ming? ;D
(http://i1356.photobucket.com/albums/q737/Hope_Emerson/yao-ming-gets-foot-measured_zpspr9npk43.jpg)
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Thanks both. Yeah a bit of a mystery...looks like a pedestal but might be too short to be one!?! Then again, Asian people are generally shorter... (i can say that right?) like Jeff said could just be an export piece. I'll see if I can find me an expert somewhere and get more info.
Would be a cool, small table or pedestal to put a vase or something on, maybe, Vick.
again, i thinks its such a great looking piece.
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Maybe it is a TV remote control table
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Haha... Yes... Thought it was a nutcracker
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the reality is it's now a dust collector in the basement :'(
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This is something else I picked up recently, a metallic serigraph although i cant make out the signature. The old stickers on the back say its a limited edition from France and "forbidden to be reproduced", from 1975. No idea... reminds me of the Story of O poster (that really naughty US OS)
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/DSC_0687_zpspovte8ap.jpg)
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/DSC_0688_zpsvn2amuaw.jpg)
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/DSC_0683_zpsypg83rjw.jpg)
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Damn, Vick... you finding some crazy shite out there.
Very jealous of the dragon pedestal(?).
Shouldn't languish in your basement though.
Bring it upstairs and put it on display.
cheers
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I passed on a couple of frame posters that popped up in a local thrift store... Q rolled one sheet. Cool art but had a corner torn off and some scratching on the top left for $14.99 and a Quad for the original 1996 version of Pusher, the first film from the director of Drive. It was folded and so heavily worn/creased that I originally thought that it might have been printed that way, kind of like the 25th Hour OS. It was $19.99...
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This is my favorite find this year, for so many reasons. Its from the Northern Electric company, which became Nortel, a huge telecom company in Canada (based in Ottawa) that literally went from top of the world to bankruptcy in the early 2000s, when Ottawa was known as "Silicon Valley North" (San Francisco, Cali, being Silicon Valley proper) The effects of Nortel folding up were felt for a long time in our little Canadian capital, i know a lot of former employees (and their fathers) who lost many a pension dollars after the fallout.
Anyways, in 1928, Northern Electric produced the first talking moving-picture sound system - not just in Canada - but the system for the Palace Theater in Montreal was the first anywhere in the whole of the British Empire! The piece below dates back to the late 1930s. Based on the very old newspaper articles stuck to the back of the mount (and the history of the person I got it from who was in radio broadcasting for decades), the piece I picked up comes from the Picadilly Theatre in Williamsburgh, Ontario, which opened in 1935. According to the Toronto Sun the first showing was The Glass Key, and the last in 1959 was Never So Few, a war film starring Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford and Steve McQueen.
Coincidentally, I did not know Williamsburg,about 45 minute drive from here, but doing some research and seeing the picture below, I realized last summer, my wife and I returning from a road trip, came across this old theatre. I immediately stopped and found a souvenir shop not far and asked the owner how much the large Picadilly sign was (pîctured). She said $5K! Nuts, but she did let me have a glance inside the old theatre, which was mostly in shambles. I was hoping to find some old posters (yeah right, just like the hundreds of people before me who had stopped to ask)!
Anyways, crazy that months later, and a hundred miles further, I find an original piece that ties the whole thing together. Its a heavy brass coated piece, already framed on original wood backing, I can`t wait to clean it up and hang it.
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/IMG-20151218-01421_zpswpqmcvpk.jpg)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2614/4067271780_63ac07479b_b.jpg)
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I love this!!!! What would you do? Display it?
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Interesting story, and a cool piece of history there, Vick. Do you know where it was displayed in the theater? It would be neat if there is a photo of that.
Good try on the offer to purchase the sign. The price doesn't seem too unreasonable. Not many theaters have such an iconic piece like that, anymore. I can't imagine what the sign in front of the nearby Tampa Theatre would sell for. It's a similar dealio, with all the history of a cornerstone piece to a classic theater like the one in Ontario, and others from that bygone era.
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Thanks all. Haven't been able to find pictures of inside the theatre so far. I know it had just the 1 screen with 382 seats.
I did dig up info on Williamsburg, which was essentially put on the map when Dr. Mahon Locke began treating people's foot ailments. He pioneered reflexology and pedorthics and became the most famous foot doctor in North America. With his practice came, and went, Picadilly theatre:
"People would come from all over the continent, and Europe, to have their arthritis cured by his self-devised, innovative treatment that earned him the moniker The Toe Twister. They lined up by the thousands outside his practice all day long, every day, and included such notables as Eleanor Roosevelt, Sir Robert Borden, Mackenzie King, and Louis B. Mayer, and -- despite it being The Great Depression -- the town's economy boomed with businesses opening to take advantage of the endless hordes; townsfolk renting rooms in their houses, even entire houses."
Here are a few pics of people lining up for this "toe twisting" treatment. And yes Rosa, its on my wall already! thumbsup.gif
(https://cornwallcommunitymuseum.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/dr-locke0005.jpg)
(https://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=imgres&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwje3Lnc3-jJAhWKHR4KHZQnAbAQjRwICTAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcornwallcommunitymuseum.wordpress.com%2Ftag%2Fwilliamsburg%2F&psig=AFQjCNHzyc_rj3TiZJnaXhzLqx1f63JKcg&ust=1450642810276492)
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/v/t1.0-9/10388073_519361281501312_1019711293275718106_n.jpg?oh=ab77e962f0cefaed61069c582cd80c7d&oe=57119565)
(https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlf1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/10349014_519361088167998_7100889156602754209_n.jpg?oh=9513f6730ba4b9bf838242b8214218be&oe=570A073E)
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(https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/12360134_1492313037742974_3008630678898485513_n.jpg?oh=c5e48ab3d3681d2a71d685722ea07bf9&oe=570CC632)
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That is pretty cool Louie. Does is have a date stamp?
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Good question. I couldn't find one but if I had to make an educated guess, I would say it's probably from the opening night of "Just Imagine".
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The date stamp is top rightish. Oct 2 pm 1935? Kinda faint but something is stamped on there.
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The date stamp is top rightish. Oct 2 pm 1935? Kinda faint but something is stamped on there.
Maybe that's it, no "Just Imagine" then.
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well since i can't seem to swap the original pic below, here's a new one, cleaned up on the wall.
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/daddy/Untitled_zpsjb8iqupp.jpg)
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Love it and love the story, Vick!
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Very cool man!
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anyone know who these fellas are? Back on the photo says STUDEBAKER, South End, Indiana with some numbers.
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/DSC_1193_zpsh3z9ftib.jpg)
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The middle guy's tie is a bit short and the design could be better
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The middle guy's tie is a bit short and the design could be better
Well it was worth a shot
...and yes, that is a terrible tie!
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anyone know who these fellas are? Back on the photo says STUDEBAKER, South End, Indiana with some numbers.
(http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k267/vintagevick/DSC_1193_zpsh3z9ftib.jpg)
I'll wager a guess and say that they are Studebaker execs of perhaps part of the design team? dontknow.gif
Whats the size of this photo, Vick? How did you find it?
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found $350 just sitting there on the grass.
I had a similar experience; it was probably around 1992ish in Toronto, I was taking a short-cut with a friend through an alley way and he mentions that he once found a $20 bill in this particular alley so to keep my eyes open. This was an old part of Toronto and there were a lot of tall weeds growing up through cracks in the pavement and the buildings on either side of us. I spotted an envelope tucked behind one of these large weeds wedged up against the building. Opened it up and it was stuffed with cash! Turned out to be $1200 all in $20's. I figured it had to be dirty money; a drop-off of some kind because it was concealed, albeit poorly.
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I'll wager a guess and say that they are Studebaker execs of perhaps part of the design team? dontknow.gif
Whats the size of this photo, Vick? How did you find it?
About 3 x 9.5 inches... I got it from a guy who seemed to put a lot of importance to it, but I never got the full story unfortunately. So I am stumped. As my wife would say; "Fuckballs." thumbsup.gif