Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[tonyb]

Marcel Breuer Cesca chair knockoffs (aren't they all?). The design first appeared in 1928. You know, Bauhaus and all that. These days they're about as common as canvas sneakers.

Got 'em offa craigslist. Free.

Got the pair above free less than two weeks back. Last night at a Goodwill store I found a third, for $5.99 plus tax. Still don't know what I'll do with 'em, as I really have no need for them here in the house, seein's how I don't care for them as much as anything they might replace. I'm thinkin' I'll use them as fair-weather patio furniture, maybe, and put 'em away when rain is threatening.

 

[jamespowers]

I'm thinkin' I'll use them as fair-weather patio furniture, maybe, and put 'em away when rain is threatening.

That was exactly what I was going to suggest.

 

[Quigley Brown]

I'm always buying old LPs at the Goodwill just for the cover art....

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[Shangas]

This is an eBay picture, but I bought one of these at a junk-shop a suburb away from where I live...

it's a VELOS 24 "type-cleaner", for cleaning the slugs on your typewriter-bars. Basically, inside is a ball/bar of mouldable putty. You yank off a hunk, squeeze it into a sausage, and then press it over the type-hammers on your typewriter to remove old ink, dust etc. And then you just fold it up and squidge it back into the rest of the ball and put it back into the tin.

Mine came with the original ball of goo, and the original instruction-paper. The ball of goo is intact, and it still works, but it's phenomenally oily crap. Greasy. Eugh. I'm wondering if I should chuck it out, and replace it with blue-tack, instead.

 

[Mr Badger]

Yesterday, during a fearsome hail storm, we popped up to our local house clearance / antiques place, Rolfey's, which always has some interesting bits & pieces among the kibble and middle class couples who are willing to spend £500 on a rag-rolled wardrobe! Rolfey likes us because, unlike many of the folks who cross his doorstep, we actually like / appreciate things on more than a 'darling, what a simply divine, it's so vintage / retro / shabby chic' level...

Mrs Badger got an amazing 1930s fur coat in perfect condition for just £25 and a lovely black silk evening bag (with chain-attached money purse!) for £20 – meanwhile, I went poking around and bagged this old pyrogravure (wood-burnt) sign / doorstop for £1!

The question is, who exactly were these Sand Dancers, and why was it even made? Was it so they knew which crustless sandwiches were theirs down the Womens Institiute charity gala, after having a good old hoof across the stage, on a hundredweight of best sharp sand, wearing an old bedsheet?

Could it have belonged to the legendary Wilson, Keppel & Betty?

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[tonyb]

I'm always buying old LPs at the Goodwill just for the cover art....

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Those are both, um, precious. Or something.

With an outfit called Halo being the record company, and the title of the album being "Good News," I'm left wondering if perhaps you might have uncovered a lost gospel here.

If I had either of those I'd be tempted to frame them to add to the gallery in the powder room here.

 

[DNO]

I'm trying hard NOT to start a phone collection but I just couldn't resist the lovely light grey Northern Electric 500 that I found at a thrift store today. Curse those thrift stores!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

It all started with one for me, too

I'm trying hard NOT to start a phone collection but I just couldn't resist the lovely light grey Northern Electric 500 that I found at a thrift store today. Curse those thrift stores!

 

[Talbot]

I'm always buying old LPs at the Goodwill just for the cover art....

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Great cover art. I have not seen Halo. I wonder if they are better sound quality than Crown?

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[jamespowers]

It all started with one for me, too

Just like cars.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Yup, a '60 Bel-Air, and look at me, now lol

Just like cars.

 

[jamespowers]

Yup, a '60 Bel-Air, and look at me, now lol

You're telling me. I am going to look at this over the weekend:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Lucky! I want one. There's actually a red/white top one sitting within eyeshot of me right now.

You're telling me. I am going to look at this over the weekend:

 

[jamespowers]

Lucky! I want one. There's actually a red/white top one sitting within eyeshot of me right now.

How much?
This guy wants a grand which is ok really. I can dump it on the state for more than that.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Not exactly thrift store or yard sale but this one has just arrived from the UK.

My collection of Routemaster models is growing!

 

[jamespowers]

Not exactly thrift store or yard sale but this one has just arrived from the UK.

My collection of Routemaster models is growing!

So did we wind it up and see if it works? (in other words, did you play with it?)

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Now, you know we never use the "P-word."

 

[jamespowers]

Now, you know we never use the "P-word."

And never mention the car noises either. lol lol

 

[Shangas]

"eeeeeeeeerrrm...eeeeerrrp!! Beep-beep! Vrrrrrrooommmm...."

"Honey what are you doing!?"

"Uh...nothing, sweetheart!"

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

And never mention the car noises either. lol lol

:rofl:

And the clockwork mechanism makes the car noises already.