Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

Dragon Soldier · Aug 26, 2013

I'm after a set of campaign furniture, I'm getting a bit old for the runny-around elements of living history, so I've a notion about setting up an Officer's Billet display... Tent, safari bed, trunk, campaign furniture set, mess silver, pink gins in the sunshine kind of thing.

I've two of the portable gramophones, a 1920s Fullotone and a slightly later Decca. The Decca gets a fair bit of use.

MissMittens · Aug 28, 2013

V.C. Brunswick said:
Picked this up just this evening at the thrift store by my house.

Very well done

MissMittens · Aug 28, 2013

Build that plane

1930artdeco · Aug 31, 2013

Thought I would post here as well. Anyone have any info this type of magnavox or where to get any info?

Mike

Foxer55 · Aug 31, 2013

Mike,

Thought I would post here as well. Anyone have any info this type of magnavox or where to get any info?

Go on the web and search for local radio clubs and ham operator clubs there in SoCal. I'm sure Oakland is full of Navy oldtimers who were or are radio guys and would know where to find someone with the expertise you need. Join a radio club there. Also, if you're up to it, you could take on the job yourself as I have given thought to doing that and there are tutorials on the web about how to fix old radios. If you have any tech skills you could have a good time with it.

http://antiqueradio.org/welcome.htm
http://antiqueradio.org/begin.htm

Warbaby · Sep 3, 2013

esteban68 said:
I often think the same DS, great match container...I wonder who made it, I have a Cussons 'Chubby' shaving soap container that's not too disimilar...
here's today's finds all for a tenner!!!

Great finds! I'd've paid a tenner for any one of those items (and I'm notoriously cheap).

Warbaby · Sep 3, 2013

This was a good week for finds for me, as well. I got a killer semi-vintage hawaiian shirt with some of the best pattern-matching I've ever seen - not only the pocket match, but the entire front closure. And coconut buttons, of course. $2.99

Little (sz 52) fuzzy Wegener dressage hat. Totally useless for me but worth five bucks just because its cool.

And last but not least, a nifty vintage machine age drafting table lamp for $3.99

Quigley Brown · Sep 5, 2013

Latest Goodwill find: Late-60s/early 70s Argus Cosina Super 8 Electric Zoom.

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DNO · Sep 6, 2013

This one really amazed me. My wife found this in a local thrift shop mixed in with the women's straw hats. It's a pre-WW2 officer's patrol dress forage cap complete with all the insignia for the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, including the original gilt and silver cap badge. It is, in addition, mint...no mothing, no damage at all. Amazing, and all for the tidy sum of $4.50! If only these things could talk.

jamespowers · Sep 6, 2013

DNO said:
This one really amazed me. My wife found this in a local thrift shop mixed in with the women's straw hats. It's a pre-WW2 officer's patrol dress forage cap complete with all the insignia for the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, including the original gilt and silver cap badge. It is, in addition, mint...no mothing, no damage at all. Amazing, and all for the tidy sum of $4.50! If only these things could talk.

Holy Crimony! You hit the jackpot!

DNO · Sep 6, 2013

jamespowers said:
Holy Crimony! You hit the jackpot!

The things you can find in thrift shops can really be amazing, JP. (As anyone who follows this thread knows!)

I looked around to see if the rest of the uniform was in the store (pushing my luck, of course). No dice.

Still, can't complain.

Found some really nice 30s/40s scarves this week as well. I'll post them on the scarf thread when I've had a chance to iron some of the creases.

esteban68 · Sep 7, 2013

Here's a recent find of mine a Wm Hutton & Sons 'hobo knife' /KFS set...as found;

esteban68 · Sep 7, 2013

And after a quick clean and polish;

you need to set the spoon/ fork at 90 degrees to remove

esteban68 · Sep 7, 2013

there's some corrosion to one of the aluminium scales which may come out and it's popped a rivet which should be an easy fix?

The spoon and fork appear to be stainless steel and the blade is carbon steel with a great edge to it.

Quigley Brown · Sep 7, 2013

Yard sale finds this weekend...

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jamespowers · Sep 7, 2013

Quigley Brown said:
Yard sale finds this weekend...

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Campus Tramp! :rofl:

Quigley Brown · Sep 7, 2013

jamespowers said:
Campus Tramp! :rofl:

Wish I could post the first paragraph, but this is a family website......

jamespowers · Sep 7, 2013

Quigley Brown said:
Wish I could post the first paragraph, but this is a family website......

:rofl: That racy with vintage eh?

Dragon Soldier · Sep 7, 2013

esteban68 said:
there's some corrosion to one of the aluminium scales which may come out and it's popped a rivet which should be an easy fix?

The spoon and fork appear to be stainless steel and the blade is carbon steel with a great edge to it.

Very nice!

tonyb · Sep 7, 2013

Quigley Brown said:
Wish I could post the first paragraph, but this is a family website......

An "Original Nightstand Book" nonetheless!

Some of those old pulp covers are so over-the-top that a person might think they are recently made parodies.

Oh, by the way ...

Ain't no kind of night like a "passion-soaked night."

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