A few mentionables this weekend, I love finding this stuff!

[diggummup]

I did my usual this weekend and started early Sat. morn. at the sales. I found alot of good stuff and several things worth mentioning. I'll start with my last find that I got this morning. Found in a box of old rusty tools and junk. It looked cool and I liked it, so I bought it. Turns out it's a salesman's sample Belknap Bluegrass axe and the last one ended up selling for $182.49 in worse shape. I'll clean mine up a little before I sell it, make it look even better. Here's the link to the last one that sold- http://tinyurl.com/7795pbw and here's mine-


Paid $1.00 for it.

Picked up these next 3 items from the same sale as well as a boxful of other items, total purchase price was $25.00


This is an advertising bottle shaped paperweight marked "The Kearns Gorsuch Bottling Co. Zanesville O. Makers of everything in flint glass bottles" I found one that sold for $45 at an auction in 2009 here-
http://tinyurl.com/crlqvcv. The company was in business using this name from 1893-1937 so I can date it in between that time period.
Hard to get a good photo with the flash.


This is a set of WMF Fraser's flatware from Germany. Pattern is Artisan (Old) satin finish. Discontinued in 1967. total of 8- 5 piece place settings plus an extra 6 pieces. Unused condition. Value- yet to be determined.


This is an Otto Link New York "Tone Master" saxaphone mouth piece that dates to the 1940's. It has a 4 digit serial indicating that it's one of the older "tone master" models. Value- yet to be determined.

Next is a small glass lot that has a 3 opalescent hobnail pieces of Fenton (I think the creamer may be Anchor Hocking Moonstone, i'll have to check my books), also included is a very cool blue art deco looking perfume dauber, I think it's Czech. glass, research needed, also is a blue/gold (bad photo flash) art glass perfume bottle that i've id'd as a piece by Robert Eickholt. Similar sold for $69.99 on ebay-http://tinyurl.com/cxzgjn8. And last but not least is a Tiffany & Co. crystal rock cut votive candle holder.



Got the lot for $20, but it included a few other items and these viewmaster reels too which were only a dollar-



All in all, it was a good weekend.

[mile-ender]

Dude! Those are awesome pickings!

[jerseyben]

As usual, very cool picks. I think you and I have similar tastes with the exception being you know more about everything and you are more into the glass stuff.

[diggummup]

As usual, very cool picks. I think you and I have similar tastes with the exception being you know more about everything and you are more into the glass stuff.

And I get lucky sometimes too. If I see something i'm not quite sure of but it looks interesting and it's cheap, i'll buy it. The salesman's sample axe was one example. I though it was just a tiny axe used for small limbs or a childs hatchet or something duh, imagine my surprise when I saw the ebay listing for the same one. Sometimes I win, sometimes I end up with something that I can resell for the same dollar I paid for it. That's the kind of thing that keeps me doing this. I know it isn't the find of the century, but at least that little axe isn't sitting in a box of rusting junk tools anymore and will now go to someone who can appreciate it. In essensce, i'm saving history, one piece at a time. The people I bought it from buy storage units. I guess they aren't too good at what they do, or it would have caught their eye, like it did mine. I research every piece of "junk" I bring in this house. It pays to and it pays too! I'm sure many of us on here can relate to that.

Dude! Those are awesome pickings!

Thanks man!

[SEANO]

Great finds.

Nice flatware, should sell well!!

[creeper71]

DIG's I have a toy price guide 2009 these are the only ones I could find... hard to read titles

20,000 leagues 1954 model no. B370
7-15.00

EXPO 67 12-20.00

[J-dude]

Great finds!!!

[diggummup]

DIG's I have a toy price guide 2009 these are the only ones I could find... hard to read titles

20,000 leagues 1954 model no. B370
7-15.00

EXPO 67 12-20.00

Thanks for the info., checked out the complted listings for those 2- http://tinyurl.com/7y3echa and http://tinyurl.com/82o9wnuI got these too-http://tinyurl.com/825q2e7

Great finds!!!

Thanks dude.

[cyberdan]

diggum, you said mentionables and I thought you said un-mentionables so I had to read

That is actually something I thought about last saturday. At a couple of places I saw boxes marked BRAS and another marked PANTIES. So I have two questions that probably can't be answered.

1) why would young ladies (in one place the sellers were high school or early 20's) want to sell their used underwear, let alone have a box of it sitting out for all to see?

2) why would someone even want to buy used underwear (perverts need not answer )

[creeper71]

diggum, you said mentionables and I thought you said un-mentionables so I had to read

That is actually something I thought about last saturday. At a couple of places I saw boxes marked BRAS and another marked PANTIES. So I have two questions that probably can't be answered.

1) why would young ladies (in one place the sellers were high school or early 20's) want to sell their used underwear, let alone have a box of it sitting out for all to see?

2) why would someone even want to buy used underwear (perverts need not answer )

Back when EBAY first started my ex girlfriend an I would put all kinds of goofy things into the search engine to see if someone was selling them..well we put dirty panties in there an was over 500 results an most was selling at the time at well over 100.00

[cyberdan]

Back when EBAY first started my ex girlfriend an I would put all kinds of goofy things into the search engine to see if someone was selling them..well we put dirty panties in there an was over 500 results an most was selling at the time at well over 100.00

Is that how you made your first million?

[creeper71]

Back when EBAY first started my ex girlfriend an I would put all kinds of goofy things into the search engine to see if someone was selling them..well we put dirty panties in there an was over 500 results an most was selling at the time at well over 100.00

Is that how you made your first million?

haha I haven't made my first 1000.00 yet.. I did tell my ex that probly the bidder was probly buyin just to get the sellers address to maybe to go there an do criminal things..

[cyberdan]

I did tell my ex that probly the bidder was probly buyin just to get the sellers address to maybe to go there an do criminal things..

Not in Japan. They have vending machines everywhere and they sell everthing imaginable in those vending machines. Yes, even soiled undies.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/kinky/panties.asp

[Nightowl 280]

Back when EBAY first started my ex girlfriend an I would put all kinds of goofy things into the search engine to see if someone was selling them..well we put dirty panties in there an was over 500 results an most was selling at the time at well over 100.00

Is that how you made your first million?

haha I haven't made my first 1000.00 yet.. I did tell my ex that probly the bidder was probly buyin just to get the sellers address to maybe to go there an do criminal things..

I can see the pervs showing up at cybers house to do ciminal things to his box of panties from a garage sale lol

[curbdiggercarl57]

Great stuff, especially love the viewmasters. Still kick myself, years ago long before I had any idea about the value of anything, I went to an estate auction where they had viewmasters of a heart operation procedure. They were stamped viewmaster, and looked to be from the 1950's. Very graphic. Didn't think to bid on them. Now I know.
Carl