Tuesday Treasures - August 19, 2025

The Goodwill Bins finally had glass (which isn't just glass, it's pottery, glass framed pictures, anything really that breaks)!  At 10¢ a pound it's one of my favorite things to rummage carefully through.

 c1930s Chinese soapstone seal of the Buddhist goddess of compassion, Guanyin.

It has the seal on the bottom.   

Two 1970s hand-painted Italian Bassano Ceramiche ABC molds. Molds, but designed to hang on a wall. I thought there might have been a missing middle sized one (these are 5" and 3.5"), but it turns out two are a set.  I wouldn't mind finding more, this pattern (or similar, as they are hand-painted, no two will be the same pattern) also comes in green and blue. 

Two adorable gnomes that can spend some time in the garden.  Sure, they are originally just Dollar Tree gnomes, but they're cute, and all the glass I bought that day came to much less than one new gnome.  

I'm glad the glass is back. 

At a yard sale I got these two vintage brass items for $1.00 each.  If you remember a post from a while back on my old lost blog, I shared a lot of brass incense burners.  These are from the same yard sale.  They often have sales, and often have interesting things, different sorts of things, so I always stop.  I quit believing that the items belonged to "my mother" or "my grandmother" a long time ago!  

This is a 1960s peacock incense burner made in Japan.  It's pierced brass in the style of Dhokra, a wax casting folk art tradition in the Indus Valley.  I didn't know it was a peacock until I image searched it.  Apparently they sell for quite a bit.  

Laughing, Happy, or Fat Buddha (in the West), believed to be the incarnation of Maitreya, the future Buddha.  He's known as Hotei in Japan. 

In a couple of weeks I'll post about the Goodwill Bins finds from this past weekend.  I got there just after they rolled out three new glass bins!  I bought 22 lbs. of it!  Oh, don't worry, 22 lbs. is only $2.20!