Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[jamespowers]

I have not, but then again, with you living in California and all; I'm sure you've smoked lots of things I've never smoked.

Not me. I don't go near that hippie stuff. It gives you Hippie Brain.

Oh and last weekend I picked up a print of two black panthers by Erich. The frame had four panels of mirror but two were missing and the ones that were there were lousy. I had the local glass lady replace them all and now I wouoldn't take $500 for it. Nice buy for $5
I can't find anything about it anywhere though. Strange.

 

[Argee]

$2 at an estate sale
1945 Nassau Green Parker 51. This is one of the scarce colors. Needs a new cap, but the pen itself, which is the rare part, is in good shape.

 

[Giftmacher]

50's night stand for free

 

[Gin&Tonics]

I went to the monthly diecast show today and here's what I picked up in the way of vintage car diecast models:

Top: 1950 Chevy Panel truck; Bottom Left: 1955 Lincoln Futura; Bottom Right: 1955 Ford Crown Victoria
and then I just HAD to pick these up!

You're quite the collector, Vic! Unless I'm much mistaken, I believe that the Lincoln futura model you have there was the basis for the Batmobile in the 1960's Adam West Batman series.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

This weekend's finds:

 

[jamespowers]

This weekend's finds:

My great uncle had that same picture on a wall in his livingroom. Nice find!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Thanks! Small world, ain't it?

My great uncle had that same picture on a wall in his livingroom. Nice find!

 

[jamespowers]

Thanks! Small world, ain't it?

He said it reminded him of when he was a boy. It used to look like that around here back then.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

That musta been WAYYYY back lol

 

[jamespowers]

That musta been WAYYYY back lol

Yeah, pre hippie.

 

[DNO]

One of the things I always look for when I'm trolling thrift stores is signed books. I was excited to find this one today. I've been hoping to find a signed copy of this one for quite some time.

 

[Kahuna]

I found this book at a yard sale for a quarter today. Unfortunately it won't make me rich but it is very interesting to me to see the way space travel was imagined at around the time I was born. Some cool illustrations from the golden age of children's picture books.

 

[Giftmacher]

30-40's bicycle "Zbrojovka" (Arms factory)

 

[jamespowers]

Wm. H Horstmann bugle. I have no idea how old it is but it looks like Spanish American war. It also looks like they used it as a bludgeon in said war.
The wife picked up a Singer Model 9510 sewing machine with the Queen Anne cabinet/table and a huge amount of attachments for $20. I took it directly to my sewing machine repair guy to have him go through it and make sure it runs fine.
Lastly I picked up a $10 three beater mixer. Not too bad for a weekend.

 

[Sled Dog]

Calendar Plates

I was cruising the thrift store the other day and for some reason I looked through a stack of those souvenir, collector plates.
Usually they are from some town, state or tourist attraction...and most of them were, except these two.

These are advertising, calendar plates from Karl Lehto in Sudbury, Ontario
A Google search shows that Karl Lehto was a tailor and had his own mens clothing store.
Karl was also a wrestler, here is a picture of Karl in 1919

"August 30, 1919
Karl Lehto, local tailor and the holder of the World 190 lb championship title in wrestling, to meet A.J. Thorne in a match in Sudbury."

This plate is mint and is from 1934

This one is from 1936 and seems to of yellowed, I dont think its supposed to be this color

Both plates are made in England by Woods Ware

I had never seen a calendar plate before, glad I looked through those tacky souvenir plates from the 80's

Thanks for looking

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Yesterday I picked up this cute little square purse at a vintage fair, for $10. Inside were a small, loose mirror, and a pair of S&H Green Stamps of a design older than the 50s-70s style I remember as a child. The only mark is a faint emboss on the interior leather, that shows a snail-like design, and seems to say "DENSCH" or "BENSCH", though it's so vague I can't really make it out. Anyway, it's the darlingest thing, and I took myself right away to Ross in order to purchase a wallet small enough to fit.

 

[jamespowers]

Yesterday I picked up this cute little square purse at a vintage fair, for $10. Inside were a small, loose mirror, and a pair of S&H Green Stamps of a design older than the 50s-70s style I remember as a child. The only mark is a faint emboss on the interior leather, that shows a snail-like design, and seems to say "DENSCH" or "BENSCH", though it's so vague I can't really make it out. Anyway, it's the darlingest thing, and I took myself right away to Ross in order to purchase a wallet small enough to fit.

Nice! Even the cat approves.

 

[ThesFlishThngs]

Ha, yes. She's new here but fitting in nicely, having appointed herself overseer of my desk.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

 

[Dinerman]

Sign is about five feet long, letters are about 20 inches high.

Any of you people remember White Tower Hamburgers?