Fantastic design purse. A special treasure from HighDesertRose at Etsy.

clam shell purse

Truly unique and different. It’s probably from late nouveau to early deco period aka transitional piece contains Midnight Blue Velvet Lining.

Measures 5″L x 5″W x 2″D when closed.

Shoulder chain measures 36″, but clasp may be opened and chain doubled if a shorter length is what you prefer.

Condition is wonderful and keeping with an item of this age, it’s vintage and previously loved.

This is a wonderful way to show your uniquesnes and style. It’s not another cookie cutter purse.

1st of all, I love the name Camelotglass. It reminds me of JFK era, and the time of  simple elegance .

Camelotglass is a long time haunter of auctions, flea markets and second hand shops, her shop represents love of all things vintage. She deal primarily, but not exclusively, in vintage glassware (depression, carnival glass, elegant, vaseline, art glass, etc).She  also sometimes carry other vintage collectibles (metalware, vintage accessories, figurines, plates, etc).

One of my favorite items from her store ( perhaps because I grew up with a set)

Vintage Russian Matryoshka Nesting Dolls

Nesting dolls are the best known and most popular of all Russian souvenirs. The Russian word for these dolls is “matryoshka”, but they are also called matrioshka, matryoshkas, babushka dolls, babushka’s doll, matroshka, matryushka, and stacking dolls.

These dolls where a gift from a friend who went to Russia in the 1970’s and have been displayed since.

There are five (5) wooden dolls, the tallest is 7 ¼”. They are hand turned, painted with gorgeous reds blacks and gold from basswood then varnished.

These beautiful dolls will make a nice addition to your collection or serve as the perfect decorative touch to any cabinet.

If you are looking for classic crystal glasses, she has a lovely set of  Waterford Irish  Crystal Cordial Stemware Glasses in the Alana Pattern. These are wonderful sparkling Irish Crystal Cordial Glasses bearing the etched “Waterford’ mark. These glasses are brilliantly cut in the popular Alana pattern it reflects colorful prismatic light to simply gorgeous effect.As you may know Alana was first produced in 1952, is a girl’s name meaning ‘darling’.

These Irish Crystal Cordials measure approximately 3 ½” in mint condition.

Alana Pattern

I bought a double sided briefcase filled with Vintage  Findings.

Some Items are for:

embellishing bags and Purse

Castle Finding for Handsbags or Altered art

jewelry findings.

Sea Shell for Jewelry Making

And then there are these

Unknown Western Style Object , It it for Collars

or for Pointy western boots

Any idea?

Rodney Kent  Hammered Aluminum.

All his work that I have found is signed and numbered on the back.

Bottom of Candy Dish

In my research, I have found a great site , Rodney Kent Tulip Pattern Collector’s Website where you can research by Number.

On Kovel’s Comment, they discuss 20th century hammered aluminum.

The  New York Times also mentions Aluminum as a collectible item,

What  I can not find is information on Rodney Kent. Was he a person ? A fictious Name ?

Unique Bracelet Commemorating Desert Storm.

Map showing Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the Words Desert Storm

Desert Storm

Pewter like Material.

Wendy Kelly was looking forward to hearing Bruce Springsteen‘s new album when she heard he would be performing live in New Jersey.

“I knew the tickets were going on sale,” Kelly says. “My best friend, who has a child with autism and spina bifida, told me that she’d come up to the concert if I could get tickets. She was down in Florida. It would be like a respite weekend for her.”

So Kelly cleared her entire morning, fired up two browsers and went to Ticketmaster’s Web site 15 minutes before seats went on sale.

The Web site behaved mysteriously. Ticketmaster, the world’s largest ticket agent, kept moving her around in the online queue, telling her she had 10 minutes to wait, then 15 minutes.

Then it sent her to another site, one also owned by Ticketmaster. There, at TicketsNow, she was offered resale tickets for three, four and five hundred dollars. Dejected, Kelly closed her browser, ticketless.

“I thought I was going to get tickets,” she says. “I was going to get decent tickets for a change. I didn’t think I wasn’t going to get any tickets.”

It hasn’t been the best week for Bruce Springsteen. Sure, he played the Super Bowl, and he just released a new album, Working on a Dream. But more than 850 Springsteen fans have filed complaints with the New Jersey attorney general over the ticketing situation.

Springsteen himself is furious, or so he says in an online posting that lambastes Ticketmaster for what he calls a conflict of interest. So what happened?

“This is one of those rare windows into the murky world of secondary ticketing,” says Bill Werde, the editorial director of Billboard, a magazine and Web site that covers the music industry.

Secondary ticketing is the practice of reselling tickets that have already been bought at face value. Once the domain of scalpers, secondary ticketing is now big business for legitimate Web sites. Werde says that the vast majority of fans would probably be surprised to find out how ticketing works.

A lot of money could be made by managers and promoters selling their tickets through secondary sites. Springsteen claims that he and his manager had no idea this was going on.

This practice is not illegal. Nevertheless, the New Jersey attorney general has launched an investigation. Even Democratic U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell has joined, bringing in the Federal Trade Commission to investigate.

Pascrell says that because it’s Springsteen — famously a New Jersey native — the issue cut close to home.

“He’s been singing since the ’70s about working men and working families,” Pascrell says. “Times are bad enough, but then, when you want a little entertainment in your life, you’re at the beckon of these companies. And they’re getting more and more of a monopoly, these ticket companies.”

Pascrell is referring to a possible merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, the country’s largest concert promoter. Werde says that would be a boon for them both in an otherwise dismal music industry.

“The places where music is still making money, it’s touring — these two companies, if they merged, they would basically own that,” Werde says. “They would own that space.”

In the meantime, Ticketmaster has apologized for the Springsteen kerfuffle, and has offered refunds to some fans. The company did not respond to requests for an interview, though it has promised it won’t happen again.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100301389

1. I’d really like chocolate right now.

2. _Owe_ is the word you’d most often hear me say if I stubbed my toe.

3. Possession is  9/10 of the law.

4.Who is___ Captain Jack Sparrow.

5. Marshmallows and fire go together like Peanut Butter &  Jelly.

6. _SO on and on.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to My Husband’s Birthday, tomorrow my plans include a Girls Scout Trip and Sunday, I want to watch Springsteen.

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I am like the kids, I welcome Snow Day!

A day to cocoon with your family having good oldfashion fun.

recent snow day

Great to look at, not much fun to drive in.

Attention  all Steampunker’s and artist that do altered art and Mixed media Assemblage.

I am cleaning out my supplies, my fix it box of jewelry, single earrings and all sorts of strange and amazing items .

Vintage Jewelry Lot

Findings lot

and I am having a special deal on Shipping

Buy any 2 items and I ‘ll ship them for Free.

Friends outside the US- I ‘ll split the cost with you.
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