Tallone
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So yesterday the wife and I went to an auction at a warehouse. According to the owner's son, his Dad had just retired from the thrift store business and this warehouse was the overflow. The building owner had a new tenant coming in on Monday so ALL of this stuff had to be gone this weekend
My apologies for the crappy picture but you get the idea. This place was massive and packed with stuff almost all of which I would have trashed long ago. After looking around for an hour before the auction started I had only spotted a couple of things that I was at all interested in. I wasn't sure I wanted to stay but we decided to stay a little while and see how things went. The auctioneer was slow and obviously didn't have a good grasp of how long it would take to move all this stuff. 3 hours in he had only sold maybe 10% of it and the crowd (which was pretty small to begin with) was quickly thinning out. The picture above was taken at about this time in the proceedings. He took a short lunch break about this time and when things resumed he picked up the pace and things started selling CHEAP. He asked people to pick out things they were interested in buying and he would sell those. We picked a few needles out of this haystack and I think we did pretty well. Here is what we got:
This is a huge vintage Fiesta ware mixing bowl. Paid $20 for it. This is the largest in a nested set of 7. Whole sets sell for $500 or more. I'm hoping to get at least $50 for this and maybe a lot more.
One of these cookie jars recently sold on ebay for $60. We paid $7.50.
This is a lot of 9 or 10 collector dolls my wife bought for $12.50. She says there are a couple in there that sell for over $100 each. I hope she's right.
This appears to be a set of home theater speakers by SEAS. I had never heard of this brand and I usually shy away from electronics because I can't test them to be sure they work. However, a little ebay research indicated this is a high quality brand and the quality of the cabinetry convinced me these were worth taking a chance on. I paid $37.50 for the set. I'm going to test them today. If they are in good working order, I think I will do very well on them.
This is why I don't usually buy electronics. If this turntable were in good working order, I would probably get at least $150 for it. I paid $32.50. It turns on but the table doesn't spin. I'm hoping I can get $50 for it as a parts piece.
I bought these motorcycle racing boots and leather jacket as a lot for $5 because it looked like nobody was going to bid on them (and no one else did). Cleaned up I think I can get $50 for the boots. The jacket is in pretty rough condition and probably wouldn't sell for more than $50 if it were in great condition. I don't think it is worth the effort to clean it up and restore the leather.
My apologies for the crappy picture but you get the idea. This place was massive and packed with stuff almost all of which I would have trashed long ago. After looking around for an hour before the auction started I had only spotted a couple of things that I was at all interested in. I wasn't sure I wanted to stay but we decided to stay a little while and see how things went. The auctioneer was slow and obviously didn't have a good grasp of how long it would take to move all this stuff. 3 hours in he had only sold maybe 10% of it and the crowd (which was pretty small to begin with) was quickly thinning out. The picture above was taken at about this time in the proceedings. He took a short lunch break about this time and when things resumed he picked up the pace and things started selling CHEAP. He asked people to pick out things they were interested in buying and he would sell those. We picked a few needles out of this haystack and I think we did pretty well. Here is what we got:
This is a huge vintage Fiesta ware mixing bowl. Paid $20 for it. This is the largest in a nested set of 7. Whole sets sell for $500 or more. I'm hoping to get at least $50 for this and maybe a lot more.
One of these cookie jars recently sold on ebay for $60. We paid $7.50.
This is a lot of 9 or 10 collector dolls my wife bought for $12.50. She says there are a couple in there that sell for over $100 each. I hope she's right.
This appears to be a set of home theater speakers by SEAS. I had never heard of this brand and I usually shy away from electronics because I can't test them to be sure they work. However, a little ebay research indicated this is a high quality brand and the quality of the cabinetry convinced me these were worth taking a chance on. I paid $37.50 for the set. I'm going to test them today. If they are in good working order, I think I will do very well on them.
This is why I don't usually buy electronics. If this turntable were in good working order, I would probably get at least $150 for it. I paid $32.50. It turns on but the table doesn't spin. I'm hoping I can get $50 for it as a parts piece.
I bought these motorcycle racing boots and leather jacket as a lot for $5 because it looked like nobody was going to bid on them (and no one else did). Cleaned up I think I can get $50 for the boots. The jacket is in pretty rough condition and probably wouldn't sell for more than $50 if it were in great condition. I don't think it is worth the effort to clean it up and restore the leather.
