Be Careful What You Throw In That "Junk" Drawer. Got A Few Potential Keepers Here...

[Critterhunter]

Last night I hooked up with a local circle of hunting friends at a diner to chat. I brought along a small junk box of some of the items I've found roughly over the last few years or so, but haven't sorted them out and thrown into various small drawers in a nuts and bolt like filing cabinet according to types of items yet. Usually when I get around to doing that that's when I pay a bit closer attention to some of the stuff and might try to research an item here or there if I suspect it might have some value to it or some unique history aspects.

Anyway, so last night at the diner I'm thumbing through a few things for some show and tell, when I pulled out this small heavy brass item that I figured was just a pawn piece for a small chess board or something. Out of second thought, I flipped it upside down to look at the bottom and saw a 4 leaf clover pattern. One of the guys attending the get together knows some aspects of antiques where I have some gaping blind spots, so I handed it over to him and asked if he thought it might be a wax seal for letters.

He looked at it and said "Yep, that's what it is alright, and some of those things go for a pretty penny on ebay and such", or words to that effect in the course of conversation here. So today I looked it up on ebay and first item I see staring me right in the face is the exact same seal I have. So here's what I saw in that ebay add, where as mine has a four leaf clover pattern...
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$95 asking price, and the supposed history...

"A terrific quality, heavy, antique late Georgian English, solid brass seal, with stylish simple top and its base depicting a rose. Dating from around 1800/10 and in excellent condition throughout with no loss or damage, it weighs 13.0 grams and measures just over an inch tall. The final photo shows it with a US penny (1 cent) coin for scale, which measures 19 mm /

 

[jyt2017]

What an awesome find there. I thought my silver quarter the other day was just meager clad too. Always double check. I bet the clover pattern is more sought after. Thanks for sharing.

Last night I hooked up with a local circle of hunting friends at a diner to chat. I brought along a small junk box of some of the items I've found roughly over the last few years or so, but haven't sorted them out and thrown into various small drawers in a nuts and bolt like filing cabinet according to types of items yet. Usually when I get around to doing that that's when I pay a bit closer attention to some of the stuff and might try to research an item here or there if I suspect it might have some value to it or some unique history aspects.

Anyway, so last night at the diner I'm thumbing through a few things for some show and tell, when I pulled out this small heavy brass item that I figured was just a pawn piece for a small chess board or something. Out of second thought, I flipped it upside down to look at the bottom and saw a 4 leaf clover pattern. One of the guys attending the get together knows some aspects of antiques where I have some gaping blind spots, so I handed it over to him and asked if he thought it might be a wax seal for letters.

He looked at it and said "Yep, that's what it is alright, and some of those things go for a pretty penny on ebay and such", or words to that effect in the course of conversation here. So today I looked it up on ebay and first item I see staring me right in the face is the exact same seal I have. So here's what I saw in that ebay add, where as mine has a four leaf clover pattern...
[attachment 260388 waxseal1.JPG][attachment 260389 waxseal2.JPG][attachment 260390 waxseal3.JPG][attachment 260392 waxseal4.JPG][attachment 260393 waxseal5.JPG]

$95 asking price, and the supposed history...

"A terrific quality, heavy, antique late Georgian English, solid brass seal, with stylish simple top and its base depicting a rose. Dating from around 1800/10 and in excellent condition throughout with no loss or damage, it weighs 13.0 grams and measures just over an inch tall. The final photo shows it with a US penny (1 cent) coin for scale, which measures 19 mm /

 

[xwyokid]

Funny you should post this. Last night I got a phone call from one of my brother's in Kalifornia. He was looking through his, "junk" coins and lo and behold he had a very nice 1914D nickel in the box. He said he never gave it a thought when he found it a couple of years ago.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Critter,at first looks like a chess piece,but the bottom indicates some kind of stamp or seal,nice.A chess set made out of that material would be expensive.My wife surprised me one Christmas with a chess set she bought for me at Harper Ferry's WV. I got a marble chess set from my son the same year,never told my son I got two sets and still have both sets.Chess sets with nice heavy metal pieces are nice and very expensive.Thanks Ron