Thursdays are auction days, so I got up early, drove down with 30 minutes to spare for the preview and hit the ground running. I picked up a box lot with some goodies, bought a couple
Matryoshkas from another dealer, then picked off a western belt buckle and a piece of trench art.
Clockwise from top left: two large hand signed Matryoshka dolls made in Moscow in 1990/1, a dated 1914 trench art vase made from a
German Howitzer shell, folding English book rack circa 1910, Navajo style belt buckle with turquoise and coral in nickle silver with brass, unmarked porcelain chess players, porcelain Rapunzel by Lenox (center).
I also picked up a barely used Jura espresso machine that I think was a game show prize, that should be easy to turn on eBay.
In other news: I got a call from the UPS store and my Waterford trunk shipped today. It's coming via truck on a palette, weighs in at 154 pounds, so it's going to be a beast once it's refilled with crystal.
