Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[MikeBravo]

Nice find! My size, too!

My size too

Hats I find are always too small for me, and never for as little as 25 cents.

 

[Sled Dog]

Couple of fun finds...
A wood "3D" sign

A glass mannequin head...I'll use it to display old hats, sunglasses etc

A porcelain clown head cookie jar...too bad that most of the red paint is missing (nose, lips, cheeks, band on hat)

 

[DNO]

My size too

Hats I find are always too small for me, and never for as little as 25 cents.

It's not often I find hats the correct size. I've become adept at giving them a bit of a stretch! And the 25 cents...nice! I've had some hats given to me but the lowest I've ever paid was for a Jaxon Bogart at a contents sale for $1 (the right size, too).

 

[Shangas]

Those glass heads are really handy. I have one in my bedroom. It's where my hats sleep, temporarily.

Long term hat-storage means I return them to the hat-rack.

 

[DNO]

Those glass heads are really handy. I have one in my bedroom. It's where my hats sleep, temporarily.

Long term hat-storage means I return them to the hat-rack.

The heads can indeed be handy but I find they are always too small for the hats I actually wear. They're great, however, for my First World War caps!

 

[MD_SPencer]

I got the hat at a yard sale not a thrift store and yes I was at just the right place at just the right time.

 

[HardBoiledMarlowe]

These space age and bachelor pad items are some more recent yard/estate sale finds. The rectangular object in front of the shaker is a cigarette lighter and the yellow spy scope has a nudie picture inside. The moon globe is pre-1969 and features a marking for the proposed U.S. manned landing site. The fabric in the background is also a recent score.

 

[Sled Dog]

These space age and bachelor pad items are some more recent yard/estate sale finds. The rectangular object in front of the shaker is a cigarette lighter and the yellow spy scope has a nudie picture inside. The moon globe is pre-1969 and features a marking for the proposed U.S. manned landing site. The fabric in the background is also a recent score.

You scored some great stuff...that pre-69 moon globe is pretty cool!!!

 

[Sled Dog]

Found this ladies shirt/blouse at the thrift store for $3...interesting fabric pattern

Close up of a button...

 

[MikeBravo]

These space age and bachelor pad items are some more recent yard/estate sale finds. The rectangular object in front of the shaker is a cigarette lighter and the yellow spy scope has a nudie picture inside. The moon globe is pre-1969 and features a marking for the proposed U.S. manned landing site. The fabric in the background is also a recent score.

Thay would be perfect in my bachelor pad

 

[Sled Dog]

An art deco looking glass container and lid-thrift store $2

A 1950's minute timer, notice the Atomic rocket dial-thrift store $2.49

1960's Church's seal skin shoes, AE shoe trees (new)-thrift store $7.99 shoes, $4 for the trees

1960's Chinese satin or silk, embroidered robe-thrift store $6.99

 

[LolitaHaze]

Sled Dog... That jar!!

 

[Shangas]

That jar is perhaps for storing pipe-tobacco? I can't think what else it's for.

 

[jamespowers]

That jar is perhaps for storing pipe-tobacco? I can't think what else it's for.

It also could have been a jar for saving hair. Hair jewelry and such was all the rage years ago. Women saved their hair in containers like this to be used later when they had enough saved.

 

[LolitaHaze]

That jar is perhaps for storing pipe-tobacco? I can't think what else it's for.

I was guessing cold cream!

 

[Kahuna]

Here's my two most recent finds, a Kodascope Eight-33 projector (works just fine) and a vintage Hawaiian shirt (only my second original find in 20 years of collecting Hawaiian shirts.

 

[jamespowers]

Here's my two most recent finds, a Kodascope Eight-33 projector (works just fine) and a vintage Hawaiian shirt (only my second original find in 20 years of collecting Hawaiian shirts.

Nice finds! Good to see another Hawaiian shirt collector out there.

 

[Shangas]

No photograph until Monday, but I got my grubby mitts on a vintage mechanical sewing-machine, courtesy of my aunt! I went to her house to pick up THIS machine originally:

...a VERY battered Singer 15 treadle.

I determined it wasn't worth bringing home. And she showed me another one, which was.

The table was falling to PIECES and the treadle-assembly was rusted through, but the machine itself was in a salvageable condition. So I removed it from the treadle-base and packed it up. Another aunt agreed to bring it to Singapore for us. Photos coming when said aunt arrives in Singapore on Monday.

 

[Sharpsburg]

Definitely not a "hair receiver" - they typically had a removable top with a hole in the center. It's probably part of a larger set for the ladies dressing table - mirror, tray, bottles and lots of little jars of various sizes depending on how fancy the set it.

What lovely finds! No yardsales like that around here! Oonly lots of baby stuff!

It also could have been a jar for saving hair. Hair jewelry and such was all the rage years ago. Women saved their hair in containers like this to be used later when they had enough saved.

 

[jamespowers]

Definitely not a "hair receiver" - they typically had a removable top with a hole in the center. It's probably part of a larger set for the ladies dressing table - mirror, tray, bottles and lots of little jars of various sizes depending on how fancy the set it.

What lovely finds! No yardsales like that around here! Oonly lots of baby stuff!

You may have a point there. It could have been part of a set.