Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[Lady Day]

I did okay for under $50

A table I sorely needed (thanks FedoraGent and Magneto for helping me get it home). Its modern, but the drop leafs work fine and its a pedestal foot, which I was hoping for because of its smaller foot print.

$2 flour sifter. Who in their right mind can resist a $2 flour sifter!?

Deco peep hole door. It needs to be cleaned. Im not sure if its real or a knockoff, but it is stamped: Le Modernne Victor Mfg. Co. Pat.Pend.

Im all spent out!

LD

 

[Dr Doran]

Deco peep hole door. It needs to be cleaned. Im not sure if its real or a knockoff, but it is stamped: Le Modernne Victor Mfg. Co. Pat.Pend.

Im all spent out!

LD

Shelley, the deco peep hole door is the bomb. It looks not only art deco but kind of 1920s Futurist. How big is it?

 

[Lady Day]

About 4 3/4" x 9" closed.

LD

 

[Warbaby]

Lady Day, that Deco peep hole is simply fabulous!

 

[Warbaby]

The garage sailing was unusually good this weekend - here's what I came home with:

Antique handwoven Jacquard tablecloth, $2.00

Vintage Waterman fountain pen, working condition, $1.00

Ladies' deco Moore fountain pen, needs a bladder but otherwise great condition, $4.00

Large 1920s Ivory Pyralin (celluloid) hand mirror, $1.00

Two vintage sets of demitasse spoons & sugar tongs, $5.00 each

Large vintage seltzer bottle, $2.00

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Also scored an antique marble washstand top for $4.00. All in all, it was one of my better garage sailing days.

 

[Vintage Betty]

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Deco peep hole door. It needs to be cleaned. Im not sure if its real or a knockoff, but it is stamped: Le Modernne Victor Mfg. Co. Pat.Pend.

Im all spent out!

LD

I'm pretty sure the deco door is original. My poor memory seems to remember Le Modernne Victor Mfg. Co as a 1920's manufacturerer of home goods. Sorry, no time to research it.

Vintage Betty

 

[Story]

Just to inspire you dumpster divers -

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/nyregion/10harp.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

 

[Foofoogal]

Vintage Waterman fountain pen, working condition, $1.00

love this as well as that Art Deco peephole. I adore anything Art Deco. foofoogal.

http://sandysfancypants.blogspot.com/

 

[Lucky Strike]

Haven't posted in this thread for very long, so I'll post a few finds.

First, my favourite:

1930s Bauhaus-style barber's chair, missing the neck support and covered in some early type of pleather:

I like the ratcheting/tilting back, I once saw an old Bentley with the same arrangement:

Ill just remove the fitting for the neck support, and have it re-upholstered to match the sofa and barstools:

 

[Lucky Strike]

Ah, and a 300+ years old dining table for contrast:

You can see a bit of it here:

Some smaller stuff: A couple of heads for the walls, one, Swedish art deco, the other presumably Chinese:

And a champagne bucket, which the seller claimed was from this airship, although I doubt it (on the other hand, the royal crown places it as pre-WWII, and I can't find any other ship that really fits):

Supposedly, luxuries like ice-buckets were jettisoned before the crash, and were later recovered.

It takes an Italian to bring an ice bucket on a polar expedition, I suppose. [huh]

 

[Lucky Strike]

On a more down-market note:

I trawled the big flea-market in Lisbon a couple of weeks ago. No big treasures, but a lot of smaller stuff.

I couldn't believe this display:

I rather liked this stuff, there were more than a hundred sellers with stuff like this:

Some good stuff, here's a (pair of heavy) sterling silver art deco candelabra at about $500:

I passed on the candelabra, and to my greater regret, on this B-17 model too, in a gunmetally bronze, quite nice and heavy, but missing its stand, with a bent wing, and a bit too pricey, IMO, at around $100. Undoubtedly period, though:

I bought these two, probably repro, but at good prices:

Also, a Tintin print to match the racing car:

Two toy cars and a print, in a packaged deal: Around $35.

 

[Foofoogal]

And a champagne bucket, which the seller claimed was from this airship, although I doubt it (on the other hand, the royal crown places it as pre-WWII, and I can't find any other ship that really fits):

[huh] in the antiques business anything is possible. Makes perfect sense to me there would be an icebucket. Now whether or not this is it? [huh]

Very nice haul for sure though. :eusa_clap
http://sandysfancypants.blogspot.com

 

[Lady Day]

I'm pretty sure the deco door is original. My poor memory seems to remember Le Modernne Victor Mfg. Co as a 1920's manufacturerer of home goods. Sorry, no time to research it.

Vintage Betty

I just love the google
http://www.urbanremainschicago.com/item.aspx?itemID=2546
The one I found seems later (cheaper) in the manufacturing line, but hey, for $5 Im cool with it

LD

 

[Dr Doran]

Lucky Strike, I am agog with envy. Portugal has been on my short list for years now, especially lately.

 

[Frankie Lamb]

"Once more into the breach"

I will once again, at the great risk of further embarrassment, attempt to post a picture with this message. This has been a long trial and error process; so far, all error.
Here goes nothin' !!

 

[Frankie Lamb]

Shucks, 'twern't nothin' !!

Finally; success in posting a picture. While I'm happy the mystery of pix-posting has finally been solved, let me say that it took John of Covina baby sitting me through the steps to finally earn my stripe; and I can do it in either color, or black and white too !! Thanks J.o C.
More pictures to follow in the days to come.
Frankie Lamb, P.P.P. ( Professional Picture Poster )

 

[Lady Day]

Ive wanted some bottles like this for some time. Not vintage, but hey, at $2 each, aint too shabby.

I put vanilla syrup in the first one, and I think Im gonna put lemonade in the other

LD

 

[Miss Sis]

Hey, LD, we have a load of those bottles. Very handy.

They come with lemonade, regular or pink, in them so good choice for the refill.

 

[NicknNora]

I did okay for under $50

A table I sorely needed (thanks FedoraGent and Magneto for helping me get it home). Its modern, but the drop leafs work fine and its a pedestal foot, which I was hoping for because of its smaller foot print.

$2 flour sifter. Who in their right mind can resist a $2 flour sifter!?

Deco peep hole door. It needs to be cleaned. Im not sure if its real or a knockoff, but it is stamped: Le Modernne Victor Mfg. Co. Pat.Pend.

Im all spent out!

LD

LadyDay, I love the Deco peep hole. I bought a smaller peep hole a couple of months ago that I love but I sure would like to have yours. I love Art Deco! It looks like you got a good deal.

 

[Vintage Betty]

Not all these were thrift/yard sales, but a few were, so thank you in advance for indulging me: