Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[Dixie_Amazon]

Man, now i miss Shakey's Pizza.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Here ya go:

BREWSKIgate!


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[Marc Chevalier]

Man, now i miss Shakey's Pizza.

They're still around.

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[feltfan]

A neighbor lady was going to give this lamp to Goodwill, so I snatched it up as quick as I could! Been looking for a decent one like this for a while. Rewired it and got it back to working order.

Nice light. But what are the mysterious black boxes on the floor?

 

[Dinerman]

 

[Miss Neecerie]

This makes me want to sing "doe a dear....'

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Yodele - HEEE - HOE!!!!

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[Dinerman]

I need to pop the back off and replace the picture in the other one of the set.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

They're still around.

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Unfortunately they have been long gone in Arkansas, where I grew up, and here in Baton Rouge.

I loved the player piano and the old movies the showed.

 

[thunderw21]

Nice light. But what are the mysterious black boxes on the floor?

Those would be vintage suit salesman's cases full of old fabric samples. 200+ I'd say.

 

[Dr Doran]

Those would be vintage suit salesman's cases full of old fabric samples. 200+ I'd say.

Do yours have a cool picture of a man in a suit on the inside of the cover? I have one that does (but no fabric samples -- it's empty).

 

[feltfan]

Those would be vintage suit salesman's cases full of old fabric samples. 200+ I'd say.

Interesting. And there I thought they were
electrical quack medicine devices.

Thanks.

And again, a cool lamp. That tiny light at the bottom
is a great feature- find your lamp in a dark room.

 

[thunderw21]

Do yours have a cool picture of a man in a suit on the inside of the cover? I have one that does (but no fabric samples -- it's empty).

Yeah, a few of them have different guys (and sometimes a female) posing on the inside lid.

 

[Dr Doran]

Yeah, a few of them have different guys (and sometimes a female) posing on the inside lid.

If you would be willing to post photos of the inside of your cases, I'll post a photo of the inside of my case.

 

[CherryRed]

OMG!!!! What a buy!!!
I am on the hunt for the tiered coffee table like that. I have the tiered side table and thought I did good at $65. Congrats!!!!!

Yesterday morning my husband went out for his haircut, and stopped at a couple of garage sales on his way home. When he got home he told me that one of the sales had a table that he "thought might be Heywood Wakefield." He tried describing it, I asked him about marks and he said he didn't see any. I thought "yeah right" and blew it off, thinking it was probably some plastic Ikea thing. Later in the day we were out running errands and we ran back by the garage sale as kind of an afterthought. Well, sitting in the front yard was the table, still there. I recognized it, but was still in disbelief... until I flipped it over and almost wet my pants when I saw the Wakefield mark. I couldn't get my wallet out fast enough! lol

So, yesterday's yard sale find: Heywood Wakefield 307G cocktail table in wheat finish... $20.

 

[thunderw21]

If you would be willing to post photos of the inside of your cases, I'll post a photo of the inside of my case.

It's a deal! I started a new thread so we don't clutter this one with off topic subjects:
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?p=797874#post797874




And my thrift find for today, $3 from Goodwill. Here they are after a good touchup and shine. Photos don't do justice.

 

[Shangas]

Whooo boy!!!

I went to the flea-market today...Lookee what I found!

The pen is a 1920s Wahl-Eversharp fountain pen. A gold-filled lever-filler with a 14kt gold fine nib. The ink-sac has been replaced (I did it myself), and the pen writes like new!!

The met whistle is just something I've always wanted to own. It works, too!

The watch is a 1926 Waltham M1908 hunter-case pocket watch. It has a 20-year gold-filled 'Dennison' case and has a seven-jewel movement. Stem-wind, stem-set. Oh...and it's a 16-size.

I'm gonna send this watch off to my watchmaker for an overhaul once I have the money saved.

 

[RetroPat]

Whooo boy!!!

I went to the flea-market today...Lookee what I found!

The pen is a 1920s Wahl-Eversharp fountain pen. A gold-filled lever-filler with a 14kt gold fine nib. The ink-sac has been replaced (I did it myself), and the pen writes like new!!

The met whistle is just something I've always wanted to own. It works, too!

The watch is a 1926 Waltham M1908 hunter-case pocket watch. It has a 20-year gold-filled 'Dennison' case and has a seven-jewel movement. Stem-wind, stem-set. Oh...and it's a 16-size.

I'm gonna send this watch off to my watchmaker for an overhaul once I have the money saved.

Great find. I love gold fountain pens.

 

[JEEP]

Amazing finds Shangas :eusa_clap


Regards.

Jakob

 

[Shangas]

Thanks for the replies, everyone!

RetroPat, I love just about any vintage fountain pen. And when I saw that one, I just fell in love right away. I had to have it. And it was cheap, too! So I bought it.

The metropolitan whistle is just something quirky which I've always wanted to have one of, so when I saw it, I bought it.

Both the pen and the whistle were cleaned and fixed and they work great now. Well rather, I fixed the pen and cleaned the whistle. I gave them both a polish and they look good as new! And work, too.

The watch was something I saw purely by chance at the flea-market. If the lid wasn't opened, I probably would have walked right past it. But I saw it, and bought it. I can't wait to use it.