Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[PADDY]

The Best A Man can Get!! Love the Gillette.

What a beauty Michael!!

Gillette President,$12.00

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[Dinerman]

Thanks!!

I don't know if you made it in time, but I went back yesterday to go pick the one I was eying up and both it and the bamboo one are gone. Quite disappointing.

 

[cookie]

Scored these vintage, but as new and unused, photo albums. The first one is very Art Deco to my eye.

Ideas as to era?...

The first one is very deco especially the wonderful font. The other one looks a bit 20s to me with the heraldic type motifs,

 

[Foofoogal]

very nice. I would say correct on both. bottom maybe a bit earlier.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Goodwill find today. A few days ago there was just one, but today....

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They are marked: Orchids of Hawaii - Japan

 

[LukasWallace]

Goodwill find today. A few days ago there was just one, but today....

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They are marked: Orchids of Hawaii - Japan

I swear I've seen those somewhere before... I think maybe my grandparents or a neighbor or something used to have a set like that. Very cool. I need some cool stuff like that for my place.

 

[storman113]

Used to be when at a tropical theme bar, if you purchased something like a Mai Tai, or other expensive tropical drink, it came in that type of server and you got to keep it!

My mom had a box full of em which went to the local thrift store when we cleaned out her place.

 

[LukasWallace]

I think I'll have to ask around and see if anyone I know has anything like that they'd be willing to donate to me so that my apartment can be as cool as a Las Vegas apartment should be.

Monday I'm also going to go search some thrift stores and hopefully I'll have something interesting to post on here upon my return.

 

[Foofoogal]

Maybe we need a Tiki thread. lol

 

[Lefty]

estate sale finds

wife's blouse

the too small 1927 sweater I'll sell eventually

 

[Quigley Brown]

I moved recently and while unpacking I re-discovered this vintage thrift store find..... lol

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[jeep44]

Goodwill find today. A few days ago there was just one, but today....

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They are marked: Orchids of Hawaii - Japan

My wife used to work in a Chinese resturant, and these were indeed the cups they used for Mai Tais and such. I instantly recognized this cup,and went to get one I use for pencils-it is an "Orchids of Japan", but it's marked 'R91' on the base-the figure on the side is almost identical, but he is smiling instead of grimacing.

 

[Lady Day]

Maybe we need a Tiki thread.

There has been a rather robust one for over a year.
http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=19559&highlight=tiki

Searching is fun.

LD

 

[Dinerman]

All my dish needs for my appt. next year are now taken care of. A whole mess of old hotel/restaurant dishes at a buck a pop.

Six of each, the plate, small plate and bowl. Dated 1968. The color band is a light emerald. I'm going to take better pictures when I have the sun tomorrow.

Eight green line diner-style dinnerplates. The first one is different, but the same size.

The rest are all identical

 

[Shangas]

I'm a naughty boy. I bought a 1918 Elgin pocket watch today at the flea-market, from a very very nice lady named Lizzie (who has taken to calling me one of her best & regular customers, even though I only bought two things from her in three months' time!).

 

[Dinerman]

Yesterday I pulled a typewriter, steam engine, monkey toy, GE desk lamp and about 100 pages of 1960s pepsi advertising material out of a dumpster.

Typewriter still works, and the ribbon is still good.

Not sure how old this guy is.

Model Steam engine

 

[Silver Dollar]

I guess the best thing I ever pulled out of a yard sale was a collection of record albums by Benny Goodman, Django Rheinhart and Billie Holiday. The guy had a lot more but I couldn't stay there looking at all the albums and I didn't have that much cash on me at the time.

 

[December]

about 100 pages of 1960s pepsi advertising material

Do you have any pictures? I'm a big fan of Pepsi and the 60s! Very jealous!

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Not sure how old this guy is.

Part of a 'whirlygig'?? If so, and truly old, you might have a valuable little item on your hands -- or on your hand, as it were.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

The first one is very deco especially the wonderful font. The other one looks a bit 20s to me with the heraldic type motifs,

Thanks cookie and foofoogal for the informed opinions. I had a notion to use one or both of these but I'm becoming more inclined to list them for sale on Ebay.