Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[Argee]

I'd been wanting a bentwood style coat rack for a while, like the one used by the Forth Doctor on Doctor Who. I didn't realize how close I'd gotten to the Season 16 version until I got home. $9 at an estate sale.

 

[Shangas]

I love those old coat-racks. I've been wanting to get one myself to hang hats on. There was a really swanky solid brass one at my local thriftshop a few months ago, but the manager wouldn't sell it!

 

[DNO]

Rummage sale find today: Suzy Cooper cups and saucers.

 

[DNO]

My other rummage sale find today...a working pocket watch by Smiths. I'm not a watch collector but I couldn't resist this one...it's keeping good time so far!

 

[Forgotten Man]

Came up with this recently at the dump. It works. Needless to say, I'm giddy!

:eusa_clap Now that is amazing! Never would I think someone tossing a stove like that at the dump!!! Those stoves sell for a lot of money! Naturally you'd be giddy or in this case STOKED! I'd be beside my self with joy! I'd love to see some photos of it all a glow!

 

[JEEP]

Todays catches:

1808 Coopered Tankard
This is one of my better finds. Picked up at a car trunk sale in Horsens.
The tankard is dated 1808 at the bottom and 1818 on the lid - and is a typical coopered beer tankard from that period.
The tankard measures 18 cm. at the rim and 22 cm. at the and stands about 27 cm. tall. It's capacity is around 8,5 L
I am not sure about the wood, but it looks to be beech or ash.
The tankard visuable has remains of oxblood paint - aswell as cyan coloured paint on the handles and withies. Two common colours of the period.
Aside from the year 1808, the bottom bears a makers- or owners mark - aswell as a more modern number; 070810-0029, most likely a catalogue number from a collection or a inventory number from a museum, the latter being unlikely, as danish museum are not allowed to sell items from their collections.
Being a holder of a BA in archaeology, I have a habit of matching numbers, found on antiques i purchase, with a complete list of danish museum acronyms and numbers, just to make sure they are not stolen from a museum's collection.
The overall condition of the piece is good, a slight deviation is the fact that the withies has been fastened by hammering nails through them and the walls of the tankard - and that pieces of the withies has broken off completely in the process (most of it is found inside the tankard and could be glued back on, but I will refrain from altering this piece further. Parts of this unfortunate ”restoration” must have taken place some time ago, as the nails are quite rusty – aswell as a recent addition of a few more pristine looking nails. All in all, this small fault, does little to ruin the impression of the whole piece though.
The sliding lock for the lid still works.

Danish M48/US M1 helmet 01
I picked this up, earlier today at a car booth sale.
Initially beliving it to be a late 50s - 60s european made M1 clone, my initial idea was to remove the cover, strip the paint and repaint the helmet in order to use it for WWII air-soft/re-enenactment.
Having examined the helmet closer and done some "homework", I belive this helmet may just be an an American made late WWII M1. If it is, I will refrain from messing with it.
The Danish army adopted the American M1 in 1948 (as a replacement for the heavy, cumbersome- and somewhat silly looking - M23 helmet). Initially the Danish army bought surplus M1 helmets from the US, many of these manufactured around 1944/-46. I am by far an expert, but there are a few details indicating that this may be a late WWII/early post-war US produced M1:
1. The helmet is made of non-magnetic steel (mangalloy) and all fittings are brass, this is definitly a military helmet, not a painted up CF (civil defence) helmet.
2. The liner has at some point been replaced with a newer plastic liner. The US made M1's had liners made from pressed paper reinforced with phenolic resin, these liners has a tendency to simply dissolve in the humid Danish weather, causing them to be replaced with more water resistant plastic liners. Most European made M1 clones are fitted with a bakelite liner.
3. The helmet has the correct olive green colour, instead of the latter, darker, more gray colour.
4. Where the paint is missing, a red-brown underpaint is visible, I have yet to find any refrences to the Eurpean clones having underpaint.
5. The swivel bales (typical for a late war helmet) are spot welded in place, not welded all along the edge as the European clones. The bales on early WWII M1's are usualy fixed.
6. The edges of the helmet are rolled up further than usually seen on European clone M1's
7. The helmet looks to be deeper than the later US made M1's (and the European clones). The ones used in the Korean War and the Vietnam war are shallower. This in a subjective comparison though - I will need to do a direct comparison or find some exact measurements online to be sure.
8. The helmet is not a front seam helmet (I can't see the back seam because of the cover). Most WWII M1's are front seam helmets. But, the production of back seam helmets started in 1944 - and it is known that the surplus M1's delivered to the Danish army in 1948 are late war production overstock.
I will have to remove the liner (can be done without damaging anything) and look for stamps, this is the only way to be sure. But, I will wait untill I can obtain the help of someone, who knows how to safely disassemble the helmet. I know a few people who has served while the M48 (or later incarnations, like the M50 and M59) was still in issue. The M48/50/59 was taken out of issue in 1992.

 

[jamespowers]

Not the actual fan but this is the exact model. Not bad for $5. It was missing the oscilating rod but ten minutes with some copper wire fixed that.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Danish army adopted the American M1 in 1948 (as a replacement for the heavy, cumbersome- and somewhat silly looking - M23 helmet).

 

[AtomicEraTom]

VERY cool!!!

Todays catches:

Love it, Jimmy. I wouldn'tve passed it up for that price, either!

Not the actual fan but this is the exact model. Not bad for $5. It was missing the oscilating rod but ten minutes with some copper wire fixed that.

 

[jamespowers]

Love it, Jimmy. I wouldn'tve passed it up for that price, either!

It is working in the summer house right now.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Stocking the summer house with antiques, too? I find out we have more in common every day lol

It is working in the summer house right now.

 

[jamespowers]

Stocking the summer house with antiques, too? I find out we have more in common every day lol

I can't get much more in there with all the Falstaff signs and jukebox etc.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Falstaff signs? You make me proud, friend!

I can't get much more in there with all the Falstaff signs and jukebox etc.

 

[jamespowers]

Falstaff signs? You make me proud, friend!

I have a fair amount but I always have room for manybe one more.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I have some great old Lemp stuff.

I have a fair amount but I always have room for manybe one more.

 

[jamespowers]

I have some great old Lemp stuff.

Good. Send it.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

If I get any duplicates, I will send them your way.

Good. Send it.

 

[jamespowers]

If I get any duplicates, I will send them your way.

Works for me. I see the Lemp house is still there and there is a museum too.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Yes, I'd love to go see it. I imagine there's more Falstaff stuff available in St. Louis, too, as far as shopping for it.

Works for me. I see the Lemp house is still there and there is a museum too.

 

[jamespowers]

Yes, I'd love to go see it. I imagine there's more Falstaff stuff available in St. Louis, too, as far as shopping for it.

I bet. Darn it.:eusa_doh: