I was just lamenting that I hadn't been to any good sales lately
-- none of the kind where you do the happy dance all the way to the car.
I still haven't, but today's sales were a little better!
Fall has come to
Michigan. The
trees are all turning and leaves are falling. It was chilly and damp when
I left this morning to go to some late-season garage sales in a nearby town.
One had been listed on Craigslist and the seller had used words like
'destashing', 'mid-century' and 'anthropomorphic condiment dishes', so I knew I
had to go.
She lived in a
condo and her garage was barely wide enough for a car, but she had tables with
2 aisleways set up in there. It was a tight fit for the 5 or 6 people who
where there when I was. Still, I got some good buys -- mainly old photos
from the 1930s and 1950s. The anthropomorphic condiment dishes?
Well, I was hoping they were Holt Howard, but they weren't. They
were just big vegetable & fruit heads and were $25 each -- not what I
wanted.
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An Argus camera with full flash
equipment & original box, plus more photos .
These are from the early 1950s and included Christmas and kiddie football pics.
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| A photo album with pictures from the 1930s --
mostly from a trip to the Catskills |
Her condo development was supposed to be having a community garage sale, but I only found 2 other sellers. At one of them I bought an old fiberglass & metal mail bin. It has 'North Campus Library Annex' painted on it and, since we have several universities around here, I wondered if the old man I bought it from had stolen it. I was afraid to ask him its history, though, because he was very crabby and a little scary.
After the condo complex, I went to a couple more sales in a couple more towns (it seems nothing in our part of Michigan is really close together) and ended up filling the car!
One thing I was happy to find was a tall unit of 4 shutters (door-height) hinged together. I've been looking for shutters like this for over a year, because they're great for creating an instant wall in the booth. You can also turn them slats-facing-up and hang things on them with S hooks. These are perfect because they're painted a soft green that will look good with my booth walls. One of them is broken, but I don't care about that. I might even repair it...
All in all, it was a good shopping day, even if I didn't do the happy dance.
Here are some of my fun finds:
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| An old sled |
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| A fifties stepped end table & a shabby red chair |
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| Driving-range sized baskets |
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| A framed cutwork & embroidered 'Welcome' motto |
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| A silhouette jar and some sweet 1920s button on cards |
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| A pyrex casserole, Moon & Stars compote and a Stetson 'Scots Clan' cream & sugar (sweet!) |
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STRANGE BUY OF THE DAY:
This little golf bag holder with plastic golf club drink stirrers. |
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BEST BUY OF THE DAY:
A McCoy large jardiniere. It has a small (and short) hairline crack at the top. Other than that it's perfect! |
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SECOND BEST BUY OF THE DAY:
A wooden box with etched mirror and a bakelite knob |
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FAVORITE BUY OF THE DAY:
A pair of mid-century wall pockets with elves. Honestly, who would want to hang these on their walls and put plants in them? |
I hope you had a fun junking week! I'll have to check all your blogs to see what you found.
