Monday, June 28, 2010, 11:59 AM
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What a busy time its been with the start of spring/summer just so much to prepare and the spring cleaning has been a massive task. Whilst clearing some of the cupboards i had the pleasure of discovering ,once again,some weird items that i have held onto for years. Reason i have none but then its brought back a flood of memories and funny ones at that.Posted by Administrator
The first story and goodies i would like to share is of a set by Michael Meier for Christian Dior the stunning paste broach and drop earings sparkle like the best Bling Bling one can buy. Called out to a house clearance many years ago i stumbled across these in a large clear rubbish bag on her terrace ready to be dumped. The bag was loaded with costume jewellery that was so intertwined that it took three lady friends many hours to sort out and the laughs just kept on coming. Screams and howls filled the room and of course the best was ...“it must have been a collection of a drag queen“ little did they know where the jewels came from. I passed on the lot, some 300 pieces and kept these knowing that in years to come some lady would just love them ,being now up for sale.
The second piece which is a screaming green paste necklace which i purchased from a tall elegant lady who had a head of rich red hair. I did notice at the time that her hands were amazing with long elegant fingers and nails well manicured and painted red as were her toes.She was rather deaf i discovered later as she kept on letting these little sharp "farts" fly. This i had to buy as i had a dealer friend from Durban who would just love this neck piece. After putting it aside i totally forgot about trying to sell it on and hey presto i still have it.
The next piece came from an elderly couple who were emigrating and they had so many great items it was hard to choose as they had had every article evaluated before hand. This pin is stamped 14ct gold and the bonnet of the lady has an emerald/ruby and diamond with her face painted in flesh tones. I tried real hard to purchase a photograph showing her wearing it some 70 years ago standing next to her husband to be. He then asked me whether i was interested in photographs,she was in the kitchen making tea,and i said yes please. Well he dragged me to his den/workshop and there under the lathe bench he hauled out some photographs of naked/semi ladies as well as some early French magazines showing various ways of having extreme kinky sex. My mouth dropped some 10 feet having no idea at the time that people performed like that...extreme to say the least. Oh yes please i would like to purchase these....!!¨Just then the wife walked in and that was that,she blushed and told him that she was aware of the mags and he had no right in selling them to such a nice young man. Ok if i had my friends standing around they would have belly laughed and that was the end of a great purchase...ho hum.
The other piece featured here came from a Scottish household with all the trappings of back home.
There was a kilt and sporran that i passed up as the man was real big....could have made kitchen curtains...just thinking about it, and well who would wear a sporran. The pin grabbed my interest with the Celtic design and it being fully hallmarked silver for Edinburgh with the makers name.
Spring cleaning is great after discovering these pieces i went searching for some other jewels that i had“hidden“ just like we all do and then try and find them...aargh! Well i did just that,I found them and they are all from 1950/60 big chunky jewels with Citrine/aquamarine/diamonds/garnets/rubies and the list goes on with these large stones that would wear well as knuckle dusters.
The things we keep makes the mind boggle but now its time that i sell all these wonderful memories and there are plenty more stories hidden. Holy moses i thought that was it...but here i found this unique little gold pendant...of baby Moses in a basket...lovely enamel work.
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