Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[countryclubjoe]

Hi Folks

I had a decent thrift shopping day.

Two pair of large frame glasses. One pair the frames are made in Italy the good news is that the lenses are perfect for my vision and I had set aside some cash for the new glasses... the thrift store price for both was $2- 100 X less then I put away for new lenses...

The other brown frame glasses are bifocals and great reading glasses, frames are Bill Blass...

The gruen watch features an interesting dial and a nice design case... I am guessing circa 30/40 on the watch. The band is newer speidel.

The plaid blazer appears circa 1960... Linen and cotton combo..

Best regards

CCJ

 

[countryclubjoe]

Hi Folks

Local church basement sale today, I could not resist two Rockwell prints for a buck... LOL
Regards.

CCJ

 

[Dragon Soldier]

A few of my latest finds...

Chromed Bialaddin 310 pressure lamp. Restored to burning order.



A pair of 1950's Tilley pressure lamps. An X264 & an X264A (although their top "caps" are reveresed in this pic.) The one on the right, the older of the pair is back in burning condition, fitted with a new globe and the cap from the one on the left. (which is my next project)


Wartime British Army paraffin (kerosene) stove. Made by Townson & Coxson but marked as "William Hurlock & Son" for reasons unknown, these were the British answer to the U.S. M1941. The American stove is far superior. This has now been cleaned, serviced & returned to burning condition.

 

[Dragon Soldier]

Here's the stove above just as it makes my old singing kettle boil. Truth be told it's a horrible, loud, smelly, leaky stove. Give me a brassy Primus every time, but that's not always what collecting is about, is it?

Please forgive the state of my long suffering bin and back wall, both much oversprayed and probably doused in terrible carcinogenic chemicals from all my "restoring".

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[V.C. Brunswick]

Picked up this handy reference guide at an antique shop yesterday.

 

[Shangas]

Today, I bought this beautiful leather Gladstone bag. It's in great exterior condition, and the lining is intact. However, the lining needs a serious CLEAN.







How can I clean the lining without damaging the leather? Removing the lining is obviously not an option here.

 

[3fingers]

How can I clean the lining without damaging the leather? Removing the lining is obviously not an option here.

Just an idea. How about trying a bit of one of the aerosol foaming carpet cleaners?

 

[Shangas]

I was thinking of using some laundry-powder and water and a sponge. Scrub the lining, then wipe it, then do it again just with water, then wipe it, then do it once more (to get the last of the soap-powder out) and then just heat-dry with a hair-dryer.

 

[RBH]

Good score Shangas!!!

 

[Shangas]

Good score Shangas!!!

I've seen many Gladstone bags of this style, but they're all TRASHED. Torn, cracked, stained, ripped, frayed, dry-rotted. Interiors stained, torn, ripped, GONE...

This one was in almost mint-condition. And cheap. So I bought it. It's made in ITALY. I don't know how old it is, though. The guy I bought it from reckoned the 1940s.

This is the logo stamped on the bag-catch. Does anyone recognise it?

 

[esteban68]

will the lining not all pull out like you'd turn out a pocket? then you could carefully handwash it?

 

[Shangas]

I've examined the bag more closely. I think it's GLUE!!

A previous owner has GLUED the bottom of the lining to the bottom of the bag. The top of the lining is soft and thick and fuzzy. That's how the bag would've felt, when it was new. The base is dry and crusty. I can pull the lining inside-out, but not completely. I don't want to potentially damage the bag by ripping the lining because of the glue...

But again, if anyone knows what this logo is, it would help a great deal:

The bag has two things on it. "ITALY", and that logo.



New bag with the old one on the left. Significantly larger.

 

[Shangas]

For several months, this antique brass desk-bell sat in the back office of the charity shop where I work:



Someone had donated it ages ago, and the boss stuck it up on a shelf with a sticker on it, and just left it there. I asked what was going to happen to it, and nobody seemed to have a clue. I think it was his intention to put it on the front counter, where we could ring it for assistance. But it never happened. And for at least three or four months...it remained on that shelf.

In the end, I couldn't let it just sit there any longer. So yesterday, I asked the boss if I could buy it off him. He agreed, and for $4.00, it was mine!



Any guesses on how old this thing is? It looks like a particularly old Victorian-style design. So my guess is, it probably came from a shop or hotel-counter back in the 1880s or something. You don't see many of these exposed-striker desk-bells these days.

 

[esteban68]

That bell is fantastic Shangas!

 

[Shangas]

Thanks!! I've wanted it for ages. It just sat there on the top shelf of the office bookcase for week...after week...after week...month after month...

It became fairly clear to me, it was never going to resume its former duties as a counter-bell (despite the boss's probable intentions that it should). If it was, he would've done it ages ago. And if it wasn't going to happen now, it was never going to happen.

So I decided it'd be a nice (and unique) thing to add to my collection of antique bric-a-brac. So at the end of the day (and a particularly BORING and SLOW day) yesterday, I just asked him about it. And he said I could have it for $4.

My research tells me that bells of this style, with the side-strike clapper date back to at least the 1870s/1880s (And quite possibly further). So I imagine this thing is pretty darn old. At least 130 years.

 

[vintage.vendeuse]

This is a thrift store find. Already, both my son and my daughter want to take it off me, lol! It was a bit dusty so I gave it a good wash. I tested it with water and it works great.

 

[Shangas]

I can't post photos until my photobucket bandwidth resets itself, but today, I bought a key for a Singer sewing-machine, and a tin put-put boat. It's been ages since I've seen one of these little tin boats, and they're so much fun to play with. I used to have one as a kid. Water, copper and a tealight candle never produced so much fun.

 

[Shangas]

I found an umbrella today. Literally. And it didn't cost me a cent and it's brand-new.

I picked it up on the tram on the way home. Nobody fessed up to owning it, so I took it.

 

[jamespowers]

This is a thrift store find. Already, both my son and my daughter want to take it off me, lol! It was a bit dusty so I gave it a good wash. I tested it with water and it works great.

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Those are great and useful to no end. However, you are missing the outside casing. They were usually housed in bowling ball looking chrome spheres with a bowler figure on top. You can likely find the case without the stuff in it for nearly nothing. People have no idea what they are anymore. They are early fifties greatness:

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[vintage.vendeuse]

Well, that's pretty neat looking.. does that mean I'm missing the ball? The pumps look different.