400 Mile Yard Sale Vintage Treasure Hunt! What Did We Find at the End?

KENTUCKY
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We’re going to do it this time! Xeno and I are determined to reach the end of Kentucky’s 400 Mile Sale along Highways 68/80. We’re braving bridge closings, detours, and lots of distractions, where beautiful antiques and fun vintage finds tempt us away from our route, all in an effort to find what treasures lie at the end of the rainbow!

We start in Lebanon, where a furniture and “odds & ends” store and a gaggle of vintage vendors have fun things lined up for us to shop. The odds are good, and the goods are odd—at least when we find a fabulous feather hat for $2 and a funky, weird handmade box from the 1970s with a decidedly political bent. Add some low-dollar 1930s uranium glass pieces and we’re off to a great start in the last segment of our trip (even if Xeno left behind his dream vacuum!).

Kentucky’s highways take us to towns with great names, and our next stop is Gravel Switch, where we stop to eat (hard buffalo, anyone?) and chance upon a barn-side dealer who didn’t advertise vintage but has a $1 buy on a Clay Art USA mask worth $25–30! We talk about another magnificent distraction we encounter on the way, then head to the 1830s antique town of Perryville, where a 50% off shop provides us a nice 1940 pin, a Henry VIII teapot, and a chance to take home a Willys Jeep that looks like it lost the battle.

Paris is our next stop, but while we enjoy climbing the Eiffel Tower and putting our hands in cement on their walk of fame, our Sunday arrival means the town’s antique attractions are closed. So it’s off to our ultimate destination, the far end of the 400 Mile Yard Sale route!

At a junction outside Maysville, we find our last fertile field of vintage finds, and it’s a good one! Antique marble-top and mahogany furniture line one end, but our best purchases come from tables of smalls from a handful of roadside dealers. A Blenko charger, Whiting & Davis gold mesh wallets, an older Kentucky Derby glass, and a Park Avenue fairy lamp make our growing pile, all just $5 each! It’s pretty clear the antique and vintage resellers didn’t get to this end of things, with stacks of Joe Camel collectibles, a big Empoli ewer, a 1910s Fenton bowl, and a 1970s rhinestone necklace for the taking.

In the end, we spend just over $50 for $250 worth of vintage collectibles and antique gems and realize that next time we shop the 400 Mile Sale, we need to start at the far end!

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