Thrift shop shopping WDUBT

Well we don’t seem to have a specific thread for thrift shopping and as I am always browsing the many thrift shop / charity shops in my area I will kick it off with my WDUBT ( what did you buy today).

I am always attracted to Asian crafts and related and came across this pure silver (1000) Japanese Saki drinking bowl for US$0.60 and at exactly 80 grams was a steal for melt value of US$80.00.
And this lovely Japanese ceramic plate for 60 cents.

I know many others here share the collecting…

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Pocket watch display cases

Just did a count up of functional cased pocket watches and I get to just over 20 of them but they are all in small individual jewellery bags and cases for protection and storage.

Looked thru them and was surprised at what I had because they aren'…

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