Friday Finds

A good junkin' week always starts with books.

Bags of books including these literary magazines from the 1960's and a French poetry book from a thrift store.

A good junkin' week always starts with finding two items which have been in short supply recently: ice skates and crib springs.

Kermit looks at me as if I am past crazy.

Ice skates - it is still ninety degrees!

A good junkin' week always ends with estate sales, a community yard sale, and several church sales.

I went to a house demo sale.

Just point to a door, window, fence, deck - whatever - and it was yours.

I pulled the birdhouse off the post in the yard along with the garden bench and bucket planter.

I was too short to take the bifold doors down, but the owner took them down for me and packed them into the truck.

The prices were great.

Two Hobby Lobby metal wall art pieces.

A Scrabble game already reduced to the letters and holders.

One of my favorite finds.

A framed wedding invitation.

Ruth Rogers marrying Boyd Mayer on Tuesday morning, June 16, 1942, at 10AM in Hartsville, SC.

Chucks is quite sure this was a wartime wedding before Boyd was shipped out. 

Marriage announcement HERE.
Ruth's obituary HERE.

Look two globes, Fonda.

Not too old and both have stand issues.

A lovely large painted window.

A bin of finials, a pair of shutters, and four huge white wire baskets.

Four large boxes of books.

Over eighty of them!

Seller was giving me a price for each book which was taking time away from other sales.


I told him if he would give me a bundle price, I would take them all.

He gave me a price.

I said I could do half that price.

SOLD!

His sons carried the boxes up the STEEEEEP driveway for me.

Books are from the middle 1800's to the 1950's.

A big stack of old Sax Rohmer books both paperback and early hardback - remember Dr. Fu Manchu?

NO? READ HERE. 

Quite a few children's books and old textbooks.

April, 1960 - TEEN magazine featuring Annette Funicello, my favorite Mouseketeer.

These tiny books - my favorites.

I kept the small red Oxford dictionary, the green Shakespeare, and the Now We Are Six.

I am busy marking books for the booth.

Rusty grates, wire baskets, and a galvanized planter box.

After bargaining for all the books, the seller offered me a great price on a book shelf to hold them all.

All it needs is a good paint job.

After buying a few old things from a sale, the seller chased me up the street to ask if I would buy a bin of old bottles.


The price was too, too high, but as I walked away, the price got lower,

and lower,

and lower. 

Until I said SOLD!

By that time he had lugged the heavy bin a block up the street and carried it the rest of the way to my truck.

It seemed to be a day for street-side service.

Now I do have to clean all those bottles - maybe not the greatest deal!


 

It is always a good junkin' day when it ends with a 1960's Smith-Corona typewriter in avocado green.

 
It has found its forever home.

The small leatherette box holds slides.

Slides - I think they might be collectible soon. There are  millions out there. I know because I have been forced to watch most of them through my life.

I had to drive home to unload the truck in the middle of the morning to buy another truckload.

What is crazy: The official yard sale event for the county is October 8, but everyone has the sales BEFORE that Saturday so they can shop.

What is crazy: There will not be as many sales on October 8.

I cannot decide whether to go forth and hunt this weekend or stay at home and paint.

My head says paint, but my heart says hunt.


See y'all!

ETSY SHOP IS CLOSED

Five Dollah, Five Dollah, Sold!

Antique Uniques (FB HERE) inaugural auction was a blast!

Love Bob the auctioneer.




Quick as a speeding bullet.

Five dollah, five dollah, SOLD!

Two sets of iron and porcelain casters.

Need cleaning.

 Farm implements.

Two 1974 Chattanooga Coca-Cola crates in great condition.

Four large rusty wire baskets once used by a local swimming hole in the locker room.

Three baskets in need of makeovers and a large scoop.

A Victorian clothes hanger.

Haven't a clue how to use it.

Any ideas?

I really wanted this Queen Elizabeth tin.

Each side shows photos of her early days.

I wasn't quite fast enough and ...

Had to buy the Japanese scribe to get the tin.

Oh, well.









 

What is this contraption all folded up?

Four legs fold out with casters.

The pole telescopes  higher.

It is army green and very heavy.

Has a small metal pocket.

Chucks and I thought an IV stand.

However one of the dealers at the mall served in the army film corps and said it was a photographic light pole. 

Thanks, Marlene!


Would make a great standing lamp.

Four peach orchard baskets with the lids. 













Made in Little Rock.

My favorite purchase of the night?

This metal medicine cabinet with the glass knob and beveled mirror.

The inside is galvanized metal goodiness.

Yes, goodiness is a word.


I know you are wondering why the finds on Wednesday.





I must confess to shopping all weekend long so there must be FOUR posts!!!

Enjoy.


See y'all!

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Friday Finds

Chucks and I took a short trip to the flea market last Saturday. 

Short for two reasons.

One: we picked up a nail in a tire and had to drive 45 miles back home.



Two: the oppressive heat saps all my junkin' juice right out my pores.

Fell in lust with this round copper pot because of the verdigris.

You can tell it once had a base, but it would be great to string it by wire from the holes left in it.









You know you may find a bargain when -


 

When tables wobble but they don't fall down.

Small blue table in need of a makeover.

There is not ONE tight joint anywhere.

Major surgery may be necessary.

Stay tuned.

When the temps rise above 100F and no one bakes cookies.

A whole bag of copper cookie cutters.

When wire planters need new cocomats.

When someone paints who shouldn't.

(You have to admit the kitty is too cute to leave behind. Imagine a whole wall of bad art.)

When a craft is no longer popular.

I used to candlewick in the early 1980's.

Another kitty I could not pass by.

When a seller hates rust.

A double bike basket.

A rusty green tackle box.

When an old ladder is just an old, beat-up ladder.

This one has great patina and a couple of very clever make-do's.

When everyone yells, "That's the coolest thing at the flea market today!"

We love our state flag in South Carolina.  

Everyone has palmetto tree/crescent moon clothing, shoes, decor, dishes, totes, ties, and on and on.

I spied this huge tree beside a truck.

I was surprised no one had purchased it.

So I did.

Then everyone wanted one.

Made by the artist from parts of her barn.

I plan to enjoy it for awhile and then sell it.

Because quite simply it IS the Coolest thing!!!

Next week I will try not to shop except in the attic and shed.

Both spaces are packed with treasures.

Of course if the perfect estate sale arises, I will be hoofing it down the road.

Be sure to get out of my way.


See y'all!

CLOSED FOR SUMMER!

 Use this discount code to receive 10% off your purchase at the Distressed Donna Etsy store:

DISTRESSEDDONNA16

SHOP HERE!