Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[CherryRed]

Thanks ladies! I am still squealing about it today!!

 

[Teekay44]

Philco Radio

I was driving home from Barnes and Noble Bookstore with a new big band CD when I went past a house with a few items in the yard with a for sale sign on them. I stopped and in the back was an old stand up wooden radio. I looked it over and the shellac was was flaking off the one side. It looked alot worse than it was. The wood under was great. The glass on the dial was gone but it is just a round piece. How much? I asked. $15 was the answer. OK I'll take a chance. Well I got it home and it works! I refinish and touch up furniture for a living so the outside just needed 30 mins work. I just need a piece of glass and a light bulb for the dial. It is a Philco 37-650. made in 1937. It went for $100 new then. I'm really happy.

 

[goldwyn girl]

Fabulous deal, will you post a pic so we can all drool.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

I agree, Teekay, post some photos! Sounds like a beauty!


Lee

 

[Teekay44]

OK, once I figure out how

 

[dhermann1]

Is this it?

Is this it? This is from Ron Ramirez's terrific Philco website.

Here's the info he has on it. Great find!
http://www.philcoradio.com/gallery/1937a.htm
To put up a pic, go to photobucket.com, or similar website, and follow the simple instructions. You use the "img" version of the image for the Lounge.
1937 is just about the peak for antique tube radios.
Just make sure the capacitors are good. If it has a loud hum that generally indicates that the old paper caps are going. You can replace them with modern ones that are a LOT safer.

 

[imoldfashioned]

Another plea for pictures! So cool that it works, and how can you go wrong at that price?

 

[zaika]

I found this one recently...and I actually had one a million years ago. I'm sure that some of you probably have one, too. It's the book that Reminisce published back in 1993 of personal stories from both soldiers and those at home. It's a fabulous compilation stories that manages to inspire watery eyes. I scanned a couple of pages.

 

[Kishtu]

You win some, you lose some...

Someone on our local Freecycle is giving away a radiogram. If there are any FL-ers in Cornwall, go to it, cos we have no room :-(

I found a pair of fully fashioned nylons on Saturday in a charity shop in Falmouth - still in their packet, unopened, shade Perfectly Peach, all of a pound. Put them in my shoulder bag. Took my purse out of my shoulder bag at some point during the afternoon, spilt said nylons somewhere in town. Retraced footsteps, no sign. GAH!!!!

BUT I have my new toy, which is a vintage sewing machine - hard to date the model, but we think late 30s early 40s - complete with all attachments and original receipt. Original cost £36. Top of the range model, no? It lives in a wood veneer cabinet and folds down flat, so when not in use it's a piece of furniture to store all one's sewing gear in, and when it is in use it's a sewing table.

 

[Teekay44]

Radio (I hope)

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Dherman THANKS! and yea that is it. I get no hum from it too

 

[Flivver]

That's a really nice Philco 37-650. I have a real weakness for Philcos of this era.

One cautionary note...even though you are not getting any hum, keep an eye on the set when you are using it. Several friends of mine have left vintage radios unattended, only to return to find a burned out power transformer (caused by a shorted filter capacitor) and lots of smelly smoke!

If the filter capacitors have not been recently changed, I'd recommend installing new ones just to be safe.

 

[imoldfashioned]

Oh, that's beautiful! Congrats again!

 

[MrNewportCustom]

That is absolutely beautiful, Teekay! Enjoy it!


Lee

 

[dostacos]

Again, I don't know the vintage, but I love the name. Still have some fuel sloshing around inside, too. No, I'm not gong to light a match and check the level.

Lee
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Come on baby light my fire . . .

there is a camera store in hollyweird called freestyle that will have film for that bad boy http://www.freestylephoto.biz/e_main.php

 

[Miss 1929]

I love my stove...

$100 WITH the four jadeite salt, pepper, flour and sugar shakers!

 

[CherryRed]

$100 WITH the four jadeite salt, pepper, flour and sugar shakers!

That is a great stove! Congrats!

 

[dhermann1]

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Dherman THANKS! and yea that is it. I get no hum from it too

Now you have to IMMEDIATELY go to the SSTRan website and get yourself an AMT3000 low power AM transmitter so you can enjoy any music you want thriugh your new radio. VERY nice!

 

[dhermann1]

Again, I don't know the vintage, but I love the name. Still have some fuel sloshing around inside, too. No, I'm not gong to light a match and check the level.

Reminds me of the guy who called his cat Blowtorch . . . . because she had acetylene kittens . . . . ba dump bump. I'll let you think about that for a while. (Courtesy of Smokey Stover, circa 1956.) (Don't tell me you don't remember Smokey Stover?!)

 

[J. M. Stovall]

Hah, I love those cloth covered chords, PrettySquareGal.


I got this at the flea market, yesterday.

Bell & Howell Filmo Diplomat 16mm film projector. Nice working condition, original storage case and some original printed material (though not the manual.)

I was at a thrift store last week and they had a projector just like that for $8. I didn't really want it, but if anyone here is interested I could go pick it up and send it to you. Even after postage it would probably be a good deal.

 

[Starius]

I was at a thrift store last week and they had a projector just like that for $8. I didn't really want it, but if anyone here is interested I could go pick it up and send it to you. Even after postage it would probably be a good deal.

Wow, if its in working order, that is a good deal. I'll have to think about that.
Shipping could be substantial though, they're somewhat hefty things.