This Week’s Vintage Finds #122

Hi everyone! Time to take a look at some of my purchases from this past week-end. I hit a couple of great sales and filled the van with vintage finds. When I pulled up to the first sale on Friday (at about noon!), I knew immediately it would be a good one. I remembered attending one at the same location about four years ago, when I had driven off with a number of good buys. Turns out the fellow holding the sale operates estate sales that I frequently attend. He has these garage sales to sell off whatever fails to sell at his estate sales. How about you? Any good sales in your neck of the woods? I sure hope so.

This vintage fan attracted me immediately (cost: $5.00, value: $25-40.00). No brand name and the blades aren’t brass, so it falls into the fair to middlin’ category. But it’s still a nice one and should clean up well.

Also from the same sale–an enamel-top table (cost: $10.00, value: $55-60.00).

It has a nice drawer pull and pretty shade of blue trim on the enamel. I stopped at my antique booth after finishing up my garage saling and decided to leave the table there since it was pretty much booth-ready. [Thanks so much Bob (my shop owner) for finding some screws and attaching the enamelware top to its legs for me :)]

You can get read more about vintage enamelware here.

A painted green box (cost: $3.00, value: $25-30.00). The only question is whether to stencil it with something. Maybe something like “No. 43?”

A smallish crate (cost: $2.00, value: $12-15.00).

A vintage wooden bowl from about the 60’s or 70’s. Nothing too special and the finish is flaking, but I like to paint them and let some of the brown stain show through (cost: $1.00, value: $15-20.00).

This one was made in Vermont.

I really like the oblong shape of this bowl, also from the 60’s or 70’s. It has a nice, almost dough bowl shape. You can see the finish chipping rather badly. I think it, too, will benefit from a coat of paint (cost: $1.00; value: $15-20.00).

Another pair of vintage leather skates, men’s this time (cost: $1.00, value: $15-18.00).

My sweet husband took me to a few sales on Saturday before we had a lovely lunch outside at Schenectady’s Firestone 151. At first I thought I might paint over the hand-painted flowers on this pretty metal tray, but now I’m not convinced that’s necessary (cost: $3.00, value: $15-18.00). What do you think?

This copper mold (plated with something shiny) intrigued me. Even in the photos you can see the copper shining through the shiny top layer (cost: $1.00, value: $12.00+?). Any thoughts?

A sturdy little work bench (cost: $5.00, value: $30-35.00).

An Eastlake style side table, with characteristic incised linear decoration on the apron around the top. I plan to take it up to my antique booth as is (cost: $5.00, value: $25-35.00). Interestingly, last week I also found a piece of Eastlake furniture–a lamp table.

Final Find: Isn’t she gorgeous? This delicate vase, onne of my last purchases of the day, is quite a beauty. The fluid, organic shape says Art Nouveau to me, and unfortunately, it’s unmarked (cost: $1.00, value: $25.oo+). I’ll have to conduct some research on this one. It’s a keeper for now.

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