Weekend Finds - 8/3 - Anyone?

[Vinca]

I went to a very neat hospital festival yesterday. It's an annual affair that features, among other things, a book sale and a massive tag/junk sale. There are tables of marked items (very cheap) and dozens of unsorted boxes to pick through. Great fun! I found a Charles Sawyer Mt. Chocorua photo, 12 or 13 pieces of Laurel Burch jewelry (it looked like a store donation), a tiny native American storyteller figure, 2 Lladro figurines, a Goebel bunny and a couple of Fenton figural pieces at the tag sale. At the book sale I found some very old, local telephone directories and a 1957 Montgomery Ward Christmas catalog in the original mailing sleeve. The cost: under $30 for the whole lot. I also got lucky on the way home when I stopped at a tag sale I had bypassed earlier. Although it was late in the day, I bought a hand painted Kosta Boda bowl for a quarter. Nothing to retire on, but a good weekend just the same.

[demgrrrll]

1. Great week end for us. I dont know where to start, paid a little more than

usual but I did get a bunch of those japanese floating balls, one marked maru which is good. Bought a hide native american medicine bag with bullet casing and feather decorations other decorations too, it is great, native american rugs, a really neat old flask from a closed brothel in Nevada, great native american indian pottery, loads of wwII books, tin chocolate molds, old paper pin up great perfumes, commercial but I think the versace v/e is the bacarrat bottle which is great. Figural liquor bottles,, no not jim beam, ha
I also bought my last time out wonderful madiera linens, a pile of them still in original boxes with the orginal stickers. Unbelievable find, the organdy was priced 150 for the set in the fifties. It is lovely and never used.

Thats about it. Im a happy grrll.

[sandnsea]

2. A few things

Two pretty Royal Haeger Boco vases, eapg creamer and sugar, and a really cute 1954 peter pauper press holiday candies book. I also got a cute embossed glass vase, with the 60's style flowers. It was just cute and only a dime, don't think it has any value.

I saw a hi-fi coffee table, very nice, danish modern style. Only $20. Another one of those things that probably has some value somewhere, but what the heck am I going to do with it. An elderly woman owned it and we both hoped it would find a good home. Such beautiful wood. *sigh*

Hubby bought a USS Constitution print from her for 50 cents. It's signed C.M. Goff. There are a few of them of different Boston scenes online, from $2 to $20. Nothing valuable, but I wish I could figure out what these are. There doesn't seem to be a number of any one print, just one of this and one of that. Weird.

I broke a large piece of pottery at the junk shop. I think I paid more for that than anything else I bought. :crazy:

Actually a pretty good week-end, for around here. Next week-end is the annual sale one of the gated communities has. I'm totally stoked for that!!

[Vinca]

3. I passed on a mid-century modern hi-fi for free a couple of weeks ago.

It had a great look to it, but I was worried I'd cart the thing around and then not be able to sell it. It just wouldn't fit in my 1770's home. I don't mind getting stuck with a small item now and then, but I've got a garage filled with bigger stuff I'm trying to rehabilitate and sell. My current project is a little 1920's bench with a padded seat. I tore it apart, reglued the legs and have it half painted. Today I hope to finish that and put a new pad of some sort on the seat part. I also have a very cute side table to complete. I did a faux finish on it and the result turned out kind of bumpy. My plan is to sand it with fine sand paper, trying to get the bumpiness out, then put a coat of glaze on it. I must be a sick person because I actually find furniture restoration fun. The tables sell like hotcakes, too.

[The Night Owl]

4. I found some really nice records...

A few jazz records on Blue Note and a copy of...

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-MASTER-SPEAKS-MAHARISHI-MAHESH-YOGI-LP_W0QQitemZ310039228346QQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

:woohoo: