This past weekend was a pretty good treasure hunting one in a strange way. My significant other is the antique hunter and yard sale shopper extraordinaire. I am more the coin and ring hunter, although I've developed a decent eye for antique styles, vintages, and marks over the years. Anyone who spends time pursuing the hobby of treasure hunting in all its forms has "inventory" collected up at home. So when a neighbor announced she was having an impromptu yard sale, we jumped onboard, a good opportunity to sell off some stuff and clear some space. We didn't set up a lot of stuff, and it was a girls thing, so I was dispatched off to do the yard sale hunting, while she conducted the sale. Perhaps a bit perverse, but she didn't want to miss a Saturday's worth of sales, and I was ordered out.
So off I went, and once I scored a $20 Hartstone checked mixing bowl at a moving sale for $1, the blood was flowing. If you are into antiques at all, you know you can never know everything, and you can't be an expert in all fields. At another moving sale, I pulled a porcelain doll out of a bin of junk. The person running the sale had no idea, and thought $1 sounded fair, so the doll came with me too. Dolls are one area I know nothing about, but since she was in good shape, with porcelain head and hands, I figured she's worth more than that. Things slowed down after that as the heat of the day rose. I finally met a nice lady who just wanted to move some items. I got a nice framed print and a wood dough bowl for $1 apiece, and a hanging corner cupboard for $2 (behind the blue pitcher). We kind of lean towards colonial things, so these were all good captures. Finally, as the morning wore down, at a sale with mostly household stuff and perfumes, I saw some old glassware on a table and inspected the blue carnival glass pitcher. Good shape. "Are these cups a set with the pitcher?" "Yes, $10" Hem, haw, but don't put down the pitcher, "OK". done. The blue punch cups are not actually a set with the pitcher, but they are all the same grape leaf pattern. The cups are worth $8 a piece on Replacements.com, and I knew the pitcher was worth a few dollars since we have some experience with carnival glass. Looked it up, it's worth $15-$35 on Ebay. Not bad.
Wife was happy, guess I've still got it LOL. It's all treasure.
This past weekend was a pretty good treasure hunting one in a strange way. My significant other is the antique hunter and yard sale shopper extraordinaire. I am more the coin and ring hunter, although I've developed a decent eye for antique styles, vintages, and marks over the years. Anyone who spends time pursuing the hobby of treasure hunting in all its forms has "inventory" collected up at home. So when a neighbor announced she was having an impromptu yard sale, we jumped onboard, a good opportunity to sell off some stuff and clear some space. We didn't set up a lot of stuff, and it was a girls thing, so I was dispatched off to do the yard sale hunting, while she conducted the sale. Perhaps a bit perverse, but she didn't want to miss a Saturday's worth of sales, and I was ordered out.
So off I went, and once I scored a $20 Hartstone checked mixing bowl at a moving sale for $1, the blood was flowing. If you are into antiques at all, you know you can never know everything, and you can't be an expert in all fields. At another moving sale, I pulled a porcelain doll out of a bin of junk. The person running the sale had no idea, and thought $1 sounded fair, so the doll came with me too. Dolls are one area I know nothing about, but since she was in good shape, with porcelain head and hands, I figured she's worth more than that. Things slowed down after that as the heat of the day rose. I finally met a nice lady who just wanted to move some items. I got a nice framed print and a wood dough bowl for $1 apiece, and a hanging corner cupboard for $2 (behind the blue pitcher). We kind of lean towards colonial things, so these were all good captures. Finally, as the morning wore down, at a sale with mostly household stuff and perfumes, I saw some old glassware on a table and inspected the blue carnival glass pitcher. Good shape. "Are these cups a set with the pitcher?" "Yes, $10" Hem, haw, but don't put down the pitcher, "OK". done. The blue punch cups are not actually a set with the pitcher, but they are all the same grape leaf pattern. The cups are worth $8 a piece on Replacements.com, and I knew the pitcher was worth a few dollars since we have some experience with carnival glass. Looked it up, it's worth $15-$35 on Ebay. Not bad. 
