Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[Bud-n-Texas]

The wife and I are constantly on the lookout for vintage odds and ends, here are a few that we have picked up.

I found this Worlds Fair cane at a thrift store in Atlanta for a mere 50 cents.

Picked up this cigarette case in Denver a few years back

I know there is more, I will just have to photograph them.

 

[Feraud]

Burberry trenchcoat. Sells for one grand brand new. Second hand cost = 20 bucks.

 

[Hemingway Jones]

Excellent find, Feraud! That may be one of the finds of the year!

 

[Feraud]

Excellent find, Feraud! That may be one of the finds of the year!

Thanks H.J. There was an overcoat as this place that looked like Bogey's from The Big Sleep.

 

[BellyTank]

Yesterday, I went to visit a shop in Copenhagen, which has apparently gone now-
Last time I visited, they had a rack full of Burb Trenchcoats.
I thought the price was way too steep, at around $US80...

I still think it is.

B
T

 

[imoldfashioned]

Great finds Miss Brill -- gotta love Craig's List -- but I especially love your chalkware find, such sweet expressions. I've been collecting chalkware nativity pieces from the 40s and 50s; I'll have to take pictures when the holiday season is closer.

Feraud, $20 for Burberry? Excellent! Did you snag the Bogey coat too?

 

[Feraud]

Feraud, $20 for Burberry? Excellent! Did you snag the Bogey coat too?

I passed on the Bogy coat because I had the Burberry and a made to measure tweed suit.

 

[imoldfashioned]

I passed on the Bogy coat because I had the Burberry and a made to measure tweed suit.

Some lucky person will be pleased!

 

[AlanC]

Burberry trenchcoat. Sells for one grand brand new. Second hand cost = 20 bucks.

Fantastic find. A Burberry or Aquascutum trench is very high on my 'grail' list of thrift finds. I came across a Canadian made Aquascutum recently, but the condition was below what I was willing to accept.

 

[Quigley Brown]

Goodwill again....

This 70s lamp stands four feet tall! It was too tacky to pass up. I know a friend who would like it, though.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

No one will be surprised to learn that I love that lamp. Beautiful colors. Lucky friend, Quigley Brown. It is fun shopping for other people, isn't it?

 

[Starius]

Goodwill again....

This 70s lamp stands four feet tall! It was too tacky to pass up. I know a friend who would like it, though.

We have a lamp in a similar style, though its been painted over to look more contemporary. I'll post a pic of it later. I'm glad to see yours though. Until now, I haven't seen another lamp in that style.

 

[Quigley Brown]

There's a little switch on the base that turns on a special bulb inside the fabric-covered core...a lamp within a lamp. That bulb is burned out, but I can't wait to replace it to see the full effect.

 

[BeBopBaby]

There's a little switch on the base that turns on a special bulb inside the fabric-covered core...a lamp within a lamp. That bulb is burned out, but I can't wait to replace it to see the full effect.

My gram had bicentennial lamps that were a lamp inside a lamp. The base was a big glass globe with a light inside of it and a big brass eagle sitting on the globe. The spirit of '76, indeed! I miss the sheer amounts of bicentennial crap that I used to see at thrifts and yard sales. Makes me wonder where it all went. It was always so delightfully tacky and it almost makes me feel nostalgic for my youth! And the range of items that were bicentennial themed is mind boggling.

 

[Starius]

There's a little switch on the base that turns on a special bulb inside the fabric-covered core...a lamp within a lamp. That bulb is burned out, but I can't wait to replace it to see the full effect.

Yours is quite a bit different than this one is then.

This lamp is one solid material for the base.
Here are some cellphone shots:

Originally, it was purple with the inner core being yellow, I think. It reminded me of a big pineapple or something. I'm really not sure around what period the thing was made.

 

[Feraud]

A few thrift store ties.

This one is a Polo. Looks and feels vintage. There is hardly any lining inside.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

More 30s British ties. 50p each:

bk

 

[Feraud]

BK, the first two on the left are beauties!

 

[Baron Kurtz]

the furthest left (grey w/ blue overcheck) is probably my favourite.

bk

 

[Miss Sis]

These are finds from my local Goodwill from the past two weeks...

This old snapshot was just laying on the floor and the cashier gave it to me. That stick propping up that wire??? Oh, the mystery...

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It's a stick proping up a clothesline. You lower it so you can peg the washing on then raise it up so it doesn't droop under the weight of the clothes and also so it catches the breeze.

I know this was pages back but no-one had commented so I thought I would!