This Week’s Vintage Finds #150
Hi everyone! I hope your week has started out well. Today is my 150th Vintage Finds post, and I can hardly believe it. It represents just over three years of blogging (I started numbering my finds a few months after I began blogging in August 2013). Just think of it, my house is filled with 150 weeks worth of junk extraordinarily fine antique goods. And I have even more to share today…
As much as I fell in love with this vintage basket, I forced myself to price it and bring it to the Shaker Craft Fair. Each year that I’ve participated, I’ve sold at least one high quality basket, and I’m hoping this will be the one this year (cost: $3.00, value: $40-45.00).
Did you know I have a basket price guide?Â
I don’t recall ever seeing antique amber-colored crystals before. Aren’t they lovely? (cost: 50¢ each, value: $4-5.00 each). I attach ornament hooks to crystals and sell them at the craft fair for $5.00. That’s where these are headed.
This brass pendant (hollow on the back) seemed too attractive to leave behind (cost: 50¢). I’ll likely be using it for some sort of craft project.
Two more wonderful old yardsticks (cost: 50¢ each, value: $7-10.00 each).
I’ve been hunting for a pizza peel/board, although I can’t for the life of me remember why (LOL). I found this one for cheap (cost: $1.00) and grabbed it, along with the enamelware basin (cost: 50¢, value: $6-7.00) and two small bottles (25¢ each). The bottles may be getting a mini-makeover, involving vintage labels, similar to those I posted about recently: Marrying Old Bottles with Vintage “New Stock” Labels.Â
Published by Elbert Hubbard, the founder of the Roycroft movement in western New York, this little booklet contains some interesting articles, adverisements, and quirky sayings. Best known for it’s Arts & Crafts style goods, the Roycroft community built furniture, printed books, and produced metal and leather wares.
The back cover contains this unusual quote.
Another weird quote along with one of the ads.
An old tin that once contained moth crystals (cost: 50¢, value: $8-10.00).
With a resurgence in interest in producing one’s own food, I’ve noticed that any books about canning sell rather quickly (cost: 50¢, value: $6-7.00).
An old Tom Swift book (cost: 50¢, value: $5-7.00).
A pair of vintage quart-sized canning jars (cost: 75¢ each, value: $10.00 each)
A pair of antique, quart-sized, wire-closure canning jars (cost: 75¢ each, value: $10-12.00 each)
Learn more about canning jars from this post.
A darling mini-book (cost: $1.00, value: $8-10.00). (SOLD)
These two pieces of flow blue came home with me when we left England in 2011, after having lived there for two years. [I’ve promised to write about our time there, and I promise I will some day, soon I hope.]
I purchased them at a weekly market in the town of Chesterfield from a crusty old Brit named Joe. He frequently had a £1 or three for £1 table set up next to his tables filled with regularly priced items. I always found great deals at his booth and got to know him well over the two years I shopped there. England is filled with “market” towns, some of which, like Chesterfield, have a flea market aspect, but theirs was the best, by far.
I rescued the dinner plate from one of his 3/£1 tables, meaning it cost me about 50¢. Flow (or flown) blue by a very well-known maker (Alfred Meakin), it’s worth about $15-20.00, on the lower side, due to the simplicity of the pattern. It dates to somewhere between 1890-1920.
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The ironstone platter, with a flow blue feather pattern, has no mark but likely dates to the late 1800’s. It suffers from severe crazing and browning, but is otherwise in pretty great condition (cost: £1/$1.60, value: $40-45.00?). That’s it for me. What treasures have you found lately?
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Thanks for the feature, Dagmar!
Thanks for the feature, ladies!
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Such lovely items at great prices! I have found so much lately, but have hardly had the time to take pictures and write about it!
So many wonderful finds, Diana…that wonderful basket is my favorite!
You found some lovely items. I really like the pizza peel.
Love that sweet little Daily Comfort book and the pretty ball jars. I found some amber coloured crystals a while ago and they definitely are not very common. I’d never seen them before and haven’t seen any since.
Yes, my house is also filled with 150 weeks worth of “extraordinary antique goods…” LOL. Maybe even a little more. I like the basket and the bottles. Interesting about the canning booklet.