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Time for Tiffany, Tiki's and Timmy Tiptoes Too!
I haven't been picking for a few weeks. Yesterday was a joke, hit about 20 sales, all junk, only bought one small sterling bracelet. Today was much better. I found a few unexpected surprises.
The first small yard sale produced a nice pair of Beswick Beatrix Potter (BP1a) Squirrels. They are named Squirrel Nutkin and Timmy Tiptoes. I paid a dollar for the pair.
beswick nutkin bp1a | eBay
beswick tiptoes bp1a | eBay
The next finds came from a high end garage sale or "luxury Item garage sale" as the the two fellas described it in their colorful ad. I scored the Russian Pilotka with 60 pins on it,
the Tiffany Rhodium Swing clock (mini),
the Swarovski dice (along with the others),
and a Kosta Boda 11" Fanfare candlestick signed by the artist Kjell Engman (not pictured). Paid $10 asking price for the lot.
On the way home from the last sale we stopped by the flea market at the dog track in Hallandale. I lost myself in a box of pins, buttons, coins, and other assorted junk for about 20 minutes at one booth, as the wife went looking around on her own. I went looking for her after I was done picking out a couple small junk drawer type trinkets. I found her in some Haitian ladies booth looking through her bins of junk. I started searching myself. I found the bottom to a Disney Polynesian village Tiki mug. I knew the top was missing so I started looking through a couple other bins. I first spotted the top and quickly noticed it was attached to the bottom of another mug, great. A second later I spotted the top to the one I already had in my hand. So... cool, I have 2 of them.
Disney's Polynesian Resort Mug With Lid from the collection of Loki-Tiki - Ooga-Mooga! Tiki Mugs & More
I haven't found any recent completed listings, just one for sale @$285.00.
I spied the Toledo Sword Bull cocktail spears on the way to pay the lady (or ask her how much). Every time I find one of these little Toledo Sword things, I buy it. Some of them sell pretty good and they are usually cheap.
She wanted $15 for the 3 pieces and a pack of Christmas cards the wife had. I was thinking like $10 tops but we settled on $12.
All in all it was a decent Sunday morning. Now all I need is a good estate sale to go to.
I haven't been picking for a few weeks. Yesterday was a joke, hit about 20 sales, all junk, only bought one small sterling bracelet. Today was much better. I found a few unexpected surprises.
The first small yard sale produced a nice pair of Beswick Beatrix Potter (BP1a) Squirrels. They are named Squirrel Nutkin and Timmy Tiptoes. I paid a dollar for the pair.
beswick nutkin bp1a | eBay
beswick tiptoes bp1a | eBay
The next finds came from a high end garage sale or "luxury Item garage sale" as the the two fellas described it in their colorful ad. I scored the Russian Pilotka with 60 pins on it,
the Tiffany Rhodium Swing clock (mini),
the Swarovski dice (along with the others),
and a Kosta Boda 11" Fanfare candlestick signed by the artist Kjell Engman (not pictured). Paid $10 asking price for the lot.
On the way home from the last sale we stopped by the flea market at the dog track in Hallandale. I lost myself in a box of pins, buttons, coins, and other assorted junk for about 20 minutes at one booth, as the wife went looking around on her own. I went looking for her after I was done picking out a couple small junk drawer type trinkets. I found her in some Haitian ladies booth looking through her bins of junk. I started searching myself. I found the bottom to a Disney Polynesian village Tiki mug. I knew the top was missing so I started looking through a couple other bins. I first spotted the top and quickly noticed it was attached to the bottom of another mug, great. A second later I spotted the top to the one I already had in my hand. So... cool, I have 2 of them.
Disney's Polynesian Resort Mug With Lid from the collection of Loki-Tiki - Ooga-Mooga! Tiki Mugs & More
I haven't found any recent completed listings, just one for sale @$285.00.
I spied the Toledo Sword Bull cocktail spears on the way to pay the lady (or ask her how much). Every time I find one of these little Toledo Sword things, I buy it. Some of them sell pretty good and they are usually cheap.
She wanted $15 for the 3 pieces and a pack of Christmas cards the wife had. I was thinking like $10 tops but we settled on $12.
All in all it was a decent Sunday morning. Now all I need is a good estate sale to go to.
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Very sweet find on the squirrels, and I love the Swarovski dice! I see you picked up some casino dice, too; any market for those?
