Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

[BobHufford]

My wife came in with these Goodwill “gets”. She knows I can’t pass up an American Made bandanna, but the tablecloth is the find here!

 

[Sarge]

Picked up this 12” GE Quiet Blade oscillating fan at a local thrift shop the other day. This model (with the streamliner cage) was manufactured in 1936 & 1937. It runs good at all three speeds and the oscillator works perfectly. Just needs to be oiled and cleaned up.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I'd already posted this on The Vintage Camera Club thread a while back, but it belongs here too.

I've been visiting a small local flea market on the weekends. As a lifelong film shooter, I always check any old cameras and photo equipment I encounter, and generally, they're not working or in poor shape. But one day this summer, I spied an early sixties 35mm rangefinder camera, a Petri 7s, and I quickly discovered that all the shutter speeds, the aperture iris, and the rangefinder seemed to work fine. Even the around-the-lens match-needle Selenium light meter seemed to work okay... because the original lens cap had apparently been kept on for decades. (It's long-term exposure to light that causes Selenium meters to eventually decay and fail.)



So, the dealer was only asking $20. This was a fair price even if the camera turned out to be a poor shooter and just ended up on my camera display shelves, so I grabbed it. A couple of days later, I put a half-roll of Tri-X through, testing it in different lighting and focus conditions, using the rangefinder to set the focus and the the meter to set the exposure. Some scans of the resulting negatives:



Okay, so it's not a Leica. It's not even a Canonet. But it's a pretty darn good shooter for $20! I doubt that I'll be using it much, I've got too many other, better cameras in my active rotation. But what a great flea market find!

 

[1930artdeco]

Just took a chance on this and it looks like it is still in good shape. I think it just needs a main spring and the sound box just needs to be repaired to sound good again. Just don’t know who made it-any ideas? Anyone have ideas for parts?

mike

 

[LolitaHaze]

I picked up this lovely art deco lady vase this afternoon at an antique store one town over. The only marking it shows is JAPAN in red on the bottom. Being that generic search terms bring up everything, but this vase, I decided to reverse image search my own photo. It did bring up 2 images of the same vase (but one in pink). I originally felt like this vase came in a matching pair -- either with a mirrored twin or a gentleman companion. From the looks of the 2 other photos that came up (with no additional information), it only came as the one vase as all the vases are the same direction, just different colors. Do you have any other information about this vase?

 

[BobHufford]

We lost our good rain gauge in the tornado of '19 and have been looking off and on for a "cool" one. We ran across this in a Houston, Missouri flea market. It's from a long-defunct Springfield, Missouri (our home town) lumber company back when we had a large stockyards (and when phone numbers were five-digits). It's mounted on a heavy 1" by 5-1/2' post. The "gage" tube is USA made plastic, but not correct as it's too short. I imagine the original was glass. Happy with an antique store price of $22 for such a unique piece with a local tie-in.

 

[BobHufford]

A $1.00 Beau Brummell tie, a $3.00 Key western denim shirt and a $5.00 Chenille full-size bedspread. Not sure why I’m still buying ties as I don’t go to the office any longer.

 

[dh66]

A $1.00 Beau Brummell tie, a $3.00 Key western denim shirt and a $5.00 Chenille full-size bedspread. Not sure why I’m still buying ties as I don’t go to the office any longer.

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Good finds!

I never wear ties to the office.....they could be down right life threatening around some of the tools I work with....but that's never stopped me from buying one

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[dh66]

Early 70s big boy. It's been a looooong time since I turned up anything like this in a thrift store.

 

[BobHufford]

Early 70s big boy. It's been a looooong time since I turned up anything like this in a thrift store.

Wow!

 

[Bugguy]

When the glass is good, I buy... the metal was in poor shape and it needed a new socket and wiring. That was easy, but if the glass is bad, its never worth the effort. I just need a headboard thin enough for this to clip over.

 

[BobHufford]

Went to an estate sale about 1.5 hours away chasing after a vintage table saw. I arrived after 3:00 pm and the sale ended for the day at 4:00. I was happy to be able “win” it as I didn’t want to pay the (usually high) first day price. The next day it would be half price, but they allowed you to “bid” anything over that price on day one and if it didn’t sell by 4:00 it would go to the high bidder. I won it with a $13 over the 1/2 price bid. I didn’t have a way to load/haul it so had to make the drive again the next day. While there I dug around for any other goodies I needed, but it was a lot of junk at that point.

I did find a 1924 patented tool used to “set” the teeth on sawmill blades for $1.00. I think it would make a cool cabinet handle.

And this split-leg lumberyard advertising apron for $1.00.

A hand-painted deer / farm scene for $2.00.

This is the $113 saw. First-year (1939) Delta 10” Unisaw in really nice shape other than the cabinet cosmetics and missing original switch. A little cleaning, lubing and a better power cord and it will be good for another 80+ years.

 

[Shangas]

$80.00. Retractable straight-razor strop. Sterling silver hallmarked casing. Restored it myself. Pulled it apart, removed the old leather strop, used it as a template to cut a new strip of leather and handle, and then fitted the new strip inside and then polished up the silver. Works great!

Not bad for something from 1924.

On eBay, the silver ones go for hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I count myself lucky to find this one!

 

[Shangas]

$10.00 at the flea-market a couple of weeks ago. Made of glass. Had a chip in one corner which left a hole in the bottom of the inkwell. Fortunately, some waterproof epoxy helped to fill the hole and make it waterproof again

 

[BobHufford]

Thrift store (and a couple flea market) finds from yesterday.

^^^^^ USA Paris brand bandanna. 50-cents.

1950s (?) Acme cowboy boots with cloth pulls. $10.

Pipestone replica (Homer Laughlin China) of a Santa Fe RR dining car platter with an ancient Mimbreno Indian pattern (we have a few other pieces already). $15.

Pyrex custard bowls (1945-1950). $3.

Small Navajo Sterling silver and turquoise pendant. 75-cents.

Woolrich reversible vest (blaze orange on the other side). $5.

1960s - 1970s Tuf-Nut coveralls. $5.

Modern-ish Woolrich hunting jacket. $5.

 

[BobHufford]

Finds from flea markets on Saturday. Small vintage Navajo rug, $4.00. Chimayo weaving in pillow form, $10.00. Seminole doll, $3.00.

 

[1930artdeco]

Went to the Turlock swap meet yesterday for some car parts-nope. But the wife found these. Four forking chairs most likely out of an airstream from the 40’s. What I think is a GE fan from the navy, a post war water cooler and a NOS suitcase. My next question is what do I use on the seat covers to clean and recondition them. They are sort of early vinyl.

 

[BobHufford]

A large hand-made ceramic tile, four neckties and a crochet, tea-stained, round tablecloth.

 

[BobHufford]

My wife sent a photo of that tile to a friend in Santa Fe and she identified it as coming from Mission San Jose in San Antonio. We have a mutual friend who was the head National Park Service Ranger for several of the Missions.

"San Jose" is used to include several makers of similar-looking art pottery and tiles made in San Antonio, Texas. The premier workshop was Mexican Arts and Crafts, which operated downtown on the banks of the San Antonio River from 1931-1941. Its founder, Ethel Wilson Harris, copyrighted a book of designs in 1937 and registered her characteristic "logo" -- a maguey cactus in full bloom. In 1941 the workshop changed its name to Mission Crafts when it moved to within the walls of Mission San Jose, where gifted artisans created tiles and pottery until 1977.

The prices on some of these is way up there. I think we'll be keeping this $3.00 one as we like it a lot. This one appears to have Ethel's cactus logo on the back.

More on Ethel Wilson Harris.

A force of nature: Ethel Wilson Harris

Former president of the San Antonio Conservation Society worked and lived at Mission San...

www.expressnews.com

 

[dh66]

Flea and estate sale finds from this morning. Caught the black Poulson's fedora at a flea down in Northport, and stopped by an estate sale on the way home where I picked up an old Wright-McGill fly rod and blow mold Santa.