Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[Retro Spectator]

First, here are two antique store finds.

Devon Mottoware plate. Probably from 30s-60s.

Toby Jug of English Origin. I wonder when he's from? The bottom says nothing, it is only glazed over.

Today, I found this Imperial Nippon creamer at the thrift store.

 

[BobHufford]

Nice finds RS!

 

[Shangas]

Nearly broke my back getting the damn thing home, but how's this for flea-market find?

1945 Singer 15 "Indian Star", manufactured, as the name suggests, for the Indian market. It's a hand-crank "portable" model...which I find to be something beyond hilarious - this thing has to weigh more than I do!!

The eponymous "Indian Star". It says "SINGER" in eight different Indian languages, including Hindi and Urdu.

After extensive scrubbing!!

The decal didn't survive quite so well, but it's still 95% there and legible.

The machine has thusfar been completely disassembled, cleaned, reassembled, lubricated to within a drop of its life, and has been tested.

After much profanity - it sews!!

I've never used a Singer 15 before, neither have I ever operated a functioning full-size sewing machine. It was a tricky bugger to thread up, but once threaded and tensioned correctly, it ran like a dream! Or it did, once I lubricated every single moving part (including pulling apart the crank!!). Honestly, this thing squeaked in about fifty different places!

 

[1930artdeco]

That is a great find Shangas. The gold leaf is really impressive.

Mike

 

[esteban68]

nice finds on the pottery and Singer guys!
Here's my weeks worth, thirty five quid all in but including and not shown a Gillette bakelite razor box for a 1940's fat handled Tech and 6 lapel badges;

And some more because I can't see anywhere else to put them;

A 'Manco' lead crystal fruitbowl c 1930's?

and a pair of lovely and soft and internally clean reinforced palm driving gloves, I'm pretty sure they were made by Dents;

 

[Retro Spectator]

Today, I found a Cesca/Breuer Chair, and a little Florida souvenir plate. The plate is made in Japan. The whole purchase only costed $2.

The Chair.

Under the seat. The seat looks pretty old, but I don't think it's original.

The Florida plate.

A few weeks ago, I went to an antique store, and got these 1957 Ford booklets for $14 (each one was $8.)

 

[Retro Spectator]

The other day, I found a bunch of old books, and a sewing box from the 50s or 60s.

The Sewing Box.

Rudyard Kipling: Barrack Room Ballads "Punjab Edition" 1930. Signed by a fellow named Roger White on the first page (sadly no picture.)

Elizabeth and Essex. Copyright 1928.

 

[Retro Spectator]

Continued.

Notre Coeur Yvette. Volume VIII. Published by The Review of Reviews Company New York. Written by Guy De Maupassant. Copyright 1903.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Today's Find!
3AKA3 MO CCCP
Zakaz Ministerstvo Oborony SSSR
(By order of Ministry of Defence, USSR)

Picked this up in, of all places, the Long Beach Stamp and Coin Show.
An Olive drab variation of the Russian Vostok Komandirskie "Tank Commander" watch which was normally black. The bottom of the dial is marked "3AKA3 MO CCCP" which indicates that it was made exclusively for the Soviet military though it wasn't an issue item but was made for private purchase at a Voentorg, the Soviet equivalent of a PX.

 

[esteban68]

I've a few Vostoks VC and they are cracking robust watches, great find there. ..does it chase the card case and instructions?.....I like that you shot it on a T54 ? Manual...watch out for the wobbly crown!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I've a few Vostoks VC and they are cracking robust watches, great find there. ..does it chase the card case and instructions?.....I like that you shot it on a T54 ? Manual...watch out for the wobbly crown!

I paid about £30 for the watch but one of the housemates who was with me at the show got a Poljot chronograph like the one in the pic from the same seller also for £30. It sells for £483! :doh:

And indeed it is a T-54 manual.

Title: Tank T-54B: Tekhnicheskoe Opisanie i Instruktsiya po Ekspluatatsii (Tank T-54B: Technical Description and User Manual)

 

[esteban68]

That was a great buy those Sturmanskies do fetch good money, I think some of the models were worn in space by cosmonauts?

 

[dh66]

Pretty run of the mill as far as tiki mugs go.......but rare indeed for a central Alabama flea market find.

 

[Bamaboots]

Nice tiki, Dale.

 

[dh66]

Thanks Bama. I imagine they're as rare to find in the wild up there as down here.

 

[Bamaboots]

Dale, we have a flea market here near Athens that used to be really cool and one could make some nice finds there. Now, it's just a dump outlet for imported retail junk.

 

[Dinerman]

Some finds from Friday and yesterday

 

[Bamaboots]

Dinerman, unbelievable. I could search for weeks and not make that kind of haul.

 

[BobHufford]

Dang Dinerman! I guess that's why you are our hero.

Dale -- nice Tiki. You don't see them here either.

 

[1mach1]

Dale, Nice tiki glass. I love those things. We have quite the collection.

Dinerman, another sweeping score! Montana must be a gold mine!