Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[Stearmen]

Yeah, well the summer house is just a one room house behind my regular house. That is where the bar, humidor, juke box, single malts and manly stuff resides. Not a huge thing.
The rest, I have no complaints about being me.

In my day, they had a name for a place like that!

 

[Shangas]

My new display-case, with stuff inside it

 

[Shangas]

Now with lights!:

 

[jamespowers]

In my day, they had a name for a place like that!

Works for me. Women and children enter at your own risk.

 

[jamespowers]

Now with lights!:

Nice! I like the pocket watch.

 

[esteban68]

Today's flea market finds;

S.Fox & Co umbrella, silver Marcasite daffodil brooch, rolled gold proppelling pencil, Regnum cufflinks, 'Charkham' suit hanger all for £25...bargain day!

 

[Shangas]

Nice! I like the pocket watch.

The watch (the one at the top, that is) is my daily carry timepiece. It's a Ball from the 1950s.

 

[jamespowers]

The watch (the one at the top, that is) is my daily carry timepiece. It's a Ball from the 1950s.

Ball made great watches. That looks like an Illinois case.

 

[Shangas]

It says "Canada" inside and the movement was made in Switzerland. I think this watch was used on the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

 

[jamespowers]

It says "Canada" inside and the movement was made in Switzerland. I think this watch was used on the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

Yeah, by then Ball was farming out its movements to Switzerland. Interesting that it was for the Canadian market.

 

[Shangas]

This particular Ball (Model 435 with the 24-hour dial) was one of the last model railroad pocketwatches certified for use on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 50s.

 

[jamespowers]

This particular Ball (Model 435 with the 24-hour dial) was one of the last model railroad pocketwatches certified for use on the Canadian Pacific Railroad in the 50s.

Over here, they went to wristwatches certified for Railroad use by then. Ball still made watches for them as well.

 

[Giftmacher]

Found this today while cleaning our pantry.

 

[esteban68]

Nice find, is it Dutch?

 

[Giftmacher]

Probably german, there's a metal plate with Leinbrock's Ideal markings.

 

[Nick D]

Picked up this New Haven mantle clock at a garage sale a couple weeks ago. I managed to talk the guy down to $10 because it only ran a few seconds (he said it never ran since he got it), and I was the only person all day to even look at it. Got it home, and on a level surface. It does need a clean, but after getting the bell synchronized it's running fine.

 

[jamespowers]

Picked up this New Haven mantle clock at a garage sale a couple weeks ago. I managed to talk the guy down to $10 because it only ran a few seconds (he said it never ran since he got it), and I was the only person all day to even look at it. Got it home, and on a level surface. It does need a clean, but after getting the bell synchronized it's running fine.

Great deal. Probably made in the 1920s and still running. Those tick fairly loudly.

 

[Nick D]

Great deal. Probably made in the 1920s and still running. Those tick fairly loudly.

It's actually pretty quiet, can't hear it outside the dining room. A very nice, deep bell though. A friend of mine repairs clocks but he's got a backlog before he can get to this one.

 

[jamespowers]

It's actually pretty quiet, can't hear it outside the dining room. A very nice, deep bell though. A friend of mine repairs clocks but he's got a backlog before he can get to this one.

Well, it is working for now until then.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Picked up this Russian Vostok watch and a turquoise ring this morning at an antiques show.