Frame 13:48 What you said about shoulder pins, made me thing of the Librarian at our Jr High. This was in the mid 70s. I guess she was retired & just making extra money, because she was very old. She always wore a enameled butterfly on her shoulder, If you managed to get on her good side ( a rare thing ), she would tell you a story. She said the day her husband to be, proposed to her, a butterfly landed on her shoulder & she knew he was the one. Never did find out when she started wearing the pin ( she had a couple of different ones ), she might have started after he passed. She also said her sister married the " Whistling Brakeman ", a country singer from a long time ago. Just an odd thing from my past, but I do like the Lizard Pin. :~)
I enjoyed you ladies too! I am with you, just because we are grandma’s doesn’t mean we have to dress like it!❤❤Ya’ll are just awesome. Beauty isn’t an age!
07:20 I want to hit that yellow set with a blacklight BADLY. Czech probably, and it may well light up. 11:54 The dragon's breath pin was killer. Mexican? Late 40s looked like. Old Pawn is a marketroid term for "we jacked the price up and wanted an excuse". Dead Pawn was sold to pawn shops and never redeemed; Pawn shops functioned like banks sometimes. Pools of Light are round quartz balls, and NOT drilled. Never drilled. And not cheap if you manage to find some. Even the glass ones are $illy money. 25:57 I'd have guessed Nepal, but Tibet..somewhere like that. The buddhas turn up but I've never seen a collar like that either. 29:58 Deco...kindasorta, but that filigree actually predates the Deco era and overlaps it a bit. The MoP stars in silver are generally Israeli. I've got one here only marked with silver content. The shell is often synthetic, which doesn't hurt the value since it's expected. (I used to sell jewelry on line, but know enough to know I don't know that much about some things. )
The jewelry so reminded of my mom. When she and dad would be out at a party or get together. They would come in the door and mom would whip off her high heel pointed toe shoes and pull off her clip or screw back earrings and give a huge sigh of relief. The mid to end of the 60's.
George you always bring us along for the fun and learning! And your companions are fascinating women and fun too. Thanks for doing this George it feels like shopping with an old dear friend ❤
Hi George! What a great video! I enjoyed watching it from end to end. Now then. Did I hear you correctly when I thought I heard you say that if I saw something in your store that I liked and gave you the screenshot with the time stamp you might be able to pull an item for me? Well! That time stamp is 38:37 The item in question is a kind of ginger jar vase, on the taller side? I really can’t be sure? It’s green painted porcelain with a red oval cartouche painted with golden lotus flowers. Towards the lower area of the cartouche, there appear to be a pair of seated figures, a mother and child? Again, not sure. It has stuck my fancy! But here’s the thing. I would be buying the item for a space that I do not currently have. We are in the middle of a big move from California to Colorado! So excited! So…. I would dearly love to have this piece, but exactly how tall is it? Can you tell me something about the maker? The style? Age? Price? S&H? Is this vase something you’ve seen before? I’m trying to find out if this is the only one on the planet as it were, so if it IS, I could be convinced! Uh oh. Or is this a common run of the mill thing that they made a zillion of and if I don’t grab this right now, there WILL be another one along at some point. But it’s the colors that are sending me over the moon! Ohhh dear. George, I await your reply. Thank you so much! Lauri Hyde
Hi, Lauri! I'm glad I spotted your comment. It is Victorian milk glass with screenpainted designs as you describe. It is about 14" tall I believe, and maybe 7" wide? If you are still enamored of it, send an email to me at theantiquenomad@gmail.com, it's at Andrea and Friends in St. Petersburg and I'll have to make sure it hasn't sold, but then I could answer your other questions too. I thought it was one of the more interesting 1870s-80s Aesthetic Period pieces of glass I'd seen!
Mr. George antique nomad. My question is---Do you ever buy Roman Catholic religious items? I am a collector of statues, pictures, rosaries etc. etc. etc. What ever I can get for cheap.
I do enjoy your posts. You mentioned on perfumes, "If the fragrance is still there and good, they are sold for the fragrance." How do you tell if the fragrance is good? I always thought perfume went bad after time.
Some of my best memories were going through my Mother's jewelry box. I loved trying on all the jewelry. I thought we were rich with all those jewels! Just can't get enough! It's just so much fun! I love the Rhinestones! I really enjoyed seeing all the jewelry! Thank you!
I loved the leather fringed necklace or collar at the first of the show. I know I could pull it off. My students and people who know me are use to me wearing things like that. I have a lot of turquoise, silver Native American jewelry .
Love this video George! OMGOSH i learned so much and drooled and dreamed even more! My Mom had a few small Kokeshi dolls that she used to hang at the top of the Christmas tree every year. I am not sure if my Dad or Uncle picked c them up on their travels in the Navy. But she did have some unique things and I don't know where they ended up 😮 I should have paid better attention. Some of the jewelry! I had a good amount of marcasite that I collected in the 80s along with all the Contempo costume jewelry. And I let my nieces play dress up with all of it. 🙄 Mom also sold Park Lane jewelry and Avon. She loved turquoise rings and squash blossom necklaces and pins. Your channel makes me want to just sit and chat! ❤
How neat! My dad brought back Geisha dolls in cases for my sisters, but the Kokeshi dolls somehow escaped his notice. I really like those! I liked 1980s marcasites a lot, and I'm glad to see that look coming back into jewelry. My mom bought Judy Lee on occasion, but never was a distributor. Your mom's taste in squash blossoms definitely is current again!
Oh! The real deal jewelry. That’s where my money would go if I won the lottery. I LOVE the real thing! There is some spectacular high end costume stuff here too. And semi precious. Omg. ❤️👏So what if I don’t go to the places to wear it. I’d just sit in the walk-in closet and admire it.
I like Bohemian, I know some people are distinguishing Harrach from other makers in terms of value. I find the non-traditional styles do the best in Bohemian glass for me
Gotta tell you, George, I feel very grateful and fortunate to have you in my life. You have enriched it immeasurably! Thank you so much. Signed: a devoted fan.
Well you cannot source Victorian jewelry at Goodwill or most thrift stores, how is it sourced? (In my best Billy Crystal accent) You... look... marvelous darling in the African military hat! lol That was fun yay!
George! At time stamp 23:42 there is a Mexican silver bracelet with rectangular stations and green carved “stones”/glass. Can you give me a ball park on a piece like this? I have looked for one like it for YEARS. I want one with blue glass, but I’d settle for the green. I had one when I was in high school that I saved up for to buy myself. Then in college I had a roommate who stole it. Could you pick one up for me if you see it in your travels? Let me know. 🙏🙏🙏
I like the Asian pieces too! It's a great area to collect, and the Japanese pieces seem like relative bargains now that the Chinese market has taken off
the open back with a stone is also for ease of access for cleaning the stones people often times think its to let light through but on a lot of jewelry what light is getting through when worn against the skin? that would make more sense with settings with cut outs along the sides not the back.
I really liked this! Very interested in the new booth owner too. Lovely ladies. I admire them ❤️🐩 The I Feel Swell print you have is right up my alley!
Love this antique store. Thank you. Dying to go to Florida again. This is what I was looking for. See all your videos. And I have so much fun. I have to go or tell my daughter to find this antique store.
39:32 vintage clothing is still very in. Who is buying has changed. I am in a shop that is in a collage town and I specialize in 80s-Y2K. I sell several thousand dollars worth of it every month. I know a lot of people don’t want to hear that the year 2000 was 24 years ago but that doesn’t change the fact that it is. You have to change with the times if you want to actually sell things. I just look for wearable, quality pieces.
I just pulled out my ring collection the other day. Abt 10 rings. Acquired half of them when my mother passed 2 yrs ago. Put one on each finger mine, mother's, grandmother's, and father's . I was looking at them and decided two were just took gaudy to wear !! Just toooo silly to wear . And one was just blahh. So I'm gonna let them go for better use and not just stored in a cupboard. I had rarely worn any rings in several years . So NO Id never wear those big rings as pretty as they are .
This was fun George. Yesterday we went to my daughter’s house for our 7 year old granddaughter’s birthday and she was wearing one of my mother’s brooches. So sweet to see a new generation attracted to 1950’s costume jewelry. She will be able to wear the real stuff when she’s a little older.
When you said "end of day glass" I thought it was art representing the apocalypse LOL, but it just means using up what's left at the end of the day. That's funny, because my brain did see that red splattered piece as plausibly symbolic of a catastrophe for a minute.
Thanks for the education, I like the way you explain everything and your voice is so smooth and soft. I know to look for a mark on the back now and to look for the condition of the piece.
