Tuesday, June 19, 2007
RANDOM ESTATE SALE POST
ooooooh man, today's was a doozy. antique dealer's house! packed packed PACKED! 3, THREE $3 bags! only the jack frost sale did i take more. 4 bags. a complete 1891 set of EBs takes alot of bag room! best part, about 1 block away from my house!
got there about 1 hour before it closed and soon after it was bag sale time.quick glance around livingroom, grabbed a few things. dining room, nothing, gotta hit kitchen! ooh, nice table. hmm, take coffee mug. ebay potential. check out boxes of utensils. hmm, pestles, grab. ooh, FOLEY FORK, ebay loves them. go to basement. many boxes. gotta look thru em all. never know. lots of old wood stove parts, but not what i want. fooey forgot the cool huge wood smoosher and somebody snagged it!, back upstairs to the attic. MORE boxes! nice dresser up there. hmm, where did they sleep? ooh. OOH. OOH! HOLY WATER BOTTLE! and another fire starter! 2nd one all in 1 month. weird. lots of goodies up there. ebayables! and stuff for me!
as i ebay the neater stuff, i will have posts. but a few of the neater things. the big box on the right was full of old stamps. have an almost complete set of little orphan annie. no annie. will ebay those, but the other ones??? a negro? in best condition. even has the original stamp pad in it's brass case. so neat.
i found the ivory corn knife on the check out tale. how could people miss that????? snagged it quick.
and i think a very old navy military patch. WW2? WW1? it is felt/wool? rather than the WW2 patches i have had. did we have a navy in WW1? so, at the check out table, i made the decision to take the stuff to the car in 3 loads. my african bag has handles and this stuff is heavy. so i am repacking and a woman picks up a old carved spoon. grapes and leaves, maybe black forest. she says she got the matching fork. gee, i really like the spoon. look at it more closely. a few minutes later, she offers me $5. SOLD. i bet the set is worth $$$, but i am ok with her paying for more than 1/2 my bags!
i can definitely say, the dealer liked trivets. i only took the little ones.
another reason i took it in trips was i got a iron weight/anchor must weigh about 25 lbs that i willuse as a weight for my art tent. better than milk cartons full of water. oh, a nice black man helped me with that trip.
but i had told him a tin box full of metal things was attachments for a treadle sewing machine. and told him what something else was. and at checkout i peeked at his bag and pulled out 2 etchings he had found and told him a little about them, so fair trade!
