Garage Sale Hunting! Tips, Hints and Advice

[Wickabee]

If I decide to sell it as a single I'll let you know first. I'm considering keeping one of the consoles and if I do, Sonic and Ecco (I played that one a LOT as a kid) will stay with it.

[andrewconnors9]

yup i hear ya exactly why i want Sonic 2 haha, but yeah let me know for sure buddy :)

id even take a stab at wheel of fortune and jeopardy if you move those lol

[Wickabee]

Went to 3 sales today.. Only 1 was worthwhile, but it was quite worthwhile. I picked up 3 old tube radios (1980 Sony, 1960s Emerson w/Bakelite body, 1939-55 Rogers Majestic) for $10. The two older ones will more than make my money back as for parts/repair sales. The Sony may sell, or I may keep it as I like the look.

I also bought a huge framed Robert Bateman paper print for $3 which my mom immediately paid me $25 for, and a 70s Mickey Mouse / Donald Duck framed mirror, 20 x 16, marked "Handmade in England" and has export and import stamps. $2.

[ajcorleone]

Come on bro Mom should of got that as a gift LOL

Went to 3 sales today.. Only 1 was worthwhile, but it was quite worthwhile. I picked up 3 old tube radios (1980 Sony, 1960s Emerson w/Bakelite body, 1939-55 Rogers Majestic) for $10. The two older ones will more than make my money back as for parts/repair sales. The Sony may sell, or I may keep it as I like the look.

I also bought a huge framed Robert Bateman paper print for $3 which my mom immediately paid me $25 for, and a 70s Mickey Mouse / Donald Duck framed mirror, 20 x 16, marked "Handmade in England" and has export and import stamps. $2.

[Wickabee]

Come on bro Mom should of got that as a gift LOL

She wouldn't let me take nothing. Honestly I could have got $75 on it with very little trouble.

[ajcorleone]

A nice weekend, picked up a box of 45's for about $5 about 40 records and found a few good one. a James Brown and the famous flames get it together 45 very good condition, elvis lets play house red vinyl color, and a couple of jerry lee lewis and carl perkins Sun original 45's.Looking at the bay I should do well with these.Also picked up a sweet original luke skywalker 77 version star wars and a han solo.Nice for the age a little scraping but for 50 cents you betcha.

[Wickabee]

Saturday and Sunday saw me obtain:
2 mid century plaster cast wall hangings $10 /pair
Realistic Navaho brand CB radio $2
A frankenset of silver plate which included a tabletop cigarette lighter, easily the coolest looking thing I've picked up this year. $5
Small blue glass vase with silver overlay decoration. $1
Sealed Texas Holdem set. $2
Letter opener with case $1
Blackjack/roulette/craps lap table with chips. $2
A small signed and numbered print. It's titled Four Little Birds by Carolyn Shores Wright. Free.
A few other small odds and ends.
The steal of the weekend, I found out once I got home, was a Fostex Model 80 Reel to Reel recorder for $10.



Edit: Forgot about the Digimon Walkie Talkies and the vintage electric hand mixer.

Edit 2: Just found out one of the 2 cream pitchers in the frankensilverplate set is a CP Rail item. Score!

[Star_Cards]

I was able to get out friday and saturday after being on vacation and unable to pick for 3 weekends. I picked up some very nice stuff.

I hit a sale at a picker/hoarder house and grabbed a nice bundle. I say picker/hoarder because they had some nice vintage stuff and a lot of junk and trash. They had stuff in their front lawn but their back yard was completely full of stuff that had been sitting outside for awhile. I picked up some galvanized buckets, a vintage socket set that I have to identify, a 1941 indiana license plate, 2 protected forestry metal signs, two large pulleys with hooks, and metal cabinets and a metal table as well as some other odds and ends. Got them all for $100. One of the pulleys should sell for around $75.

Saturday I went to an estate sale and the people running it said they saved some vintage toys for me and my friend. It was a small box. Most were cheap but there was a tin popeye toy. I knew they were good as I had one from my grandpa's house that goes for around $300. I got a bunch of stuff including the toys for $25. Two large shipping crates, some vintage cowboy boots, a vintage chrome towel rack and some other small items. I'm not sure what the Popeye toy will go for but of this type of toy (it's called a jigger) there was a version with olive oil sitting on a box of spinach and a version where she is sitting on dynamite. The dynamite is supposedly the rare version which we got. We think we should be able to get anywhere from $500 to possibly even $1200 for it based off of our research. NOt much on ebay to get a good market value of it. I'm leaning towards the $600 range based off of what I have seen.

Also picked up an old Hay Trolley for $40 and a Design Within Reach stool for $60 that I should get $170 on.

Here are some picts.

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and found this pretty cool double exposure photo.

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[Wickabee]

Love the Popeye. Got a picture of the socket set?
I'll get a few pics up myself in a bit.

[ajcorleone]

That Popeye is a great piece.It is great you have folks putting stuff aside for you.I try to make connections like that and get lucky at on of my regular auctions