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

The crepe myrtle are greening and getting ready to bloom and that tells us it's the first weekend in June which is when the 400 mile sail across Kentucky is held. Zito and my goal was to actually get to the end of the 400 miles and we did it and we found some really cool stuff so let's show you now. We're in Lebanon, Kentucky or Lebanon or however it's pronounced here. In Kentucky you can go to Paris and Versailles and Lebanon but you may not know how to pronounce it correctly for the local folks. We've got a pretty interesting looking sail here. This is day three of the 400 mile. Since the store is open and I see they've got a hundred dollars on this pretty cool looking and very effective old ham truck. Anniversary of the Kentucky Derby. The 100th anniversary bottle is worth five bucks. Showing that some piano is 20. Those do sell. People like any sort of musical instruments even. What are things? Five dollars on the match holder ski boot from about 1970. That's cute. It's a nice looking place. Seems like it's pretty well organized and there's some stuff here. I like the open house sign. I'm a sucker for these for some reason. $20. Paid it in the 50s or 60s. Oh yeah there's a nice marble top commode for 175. That's a cute little piece. Did somebody put that together? No actually that's original from the 70s in all its smallsiness and the tables as well. 100 for the pair on the tables and 50 for this. A lot of this is going to be plastic. Just add a gaudy gold lamp with those big red velvet covered shades. This is very much in keeping with 1974 styles. Well two dollars is pretty good considering it's uranium glass. A few other things on the shelf here. I wonder who made the tall pot in the back. It looks like Hall but I bet it's actually Chef's Ware or one of those. It's a little different shape than Hall did I think. Chef's Ware. It is Chef's Ware. Okay very good. That makes sense. Well they tended to be... Well it's like it skips. It's factory flood. No that's actually Chips. You're right. Chef's Ware was not quite as well styled or as good quality as Hall. From Davis County, Kentucky. Old pottery. It's actually from Huntingburg, Indiana as it says. Well this is definitely a store here and they've got a lot of secondhand and old stuff. That sort of looks like Marky Maypoe but it's homemade. Chenette glass. The pink depression for ten dollars there. That looks like their limoche plate for eight. Some restaurant ware. The prices are certainly fine. I'm not seeing anything I really need to own. Oh wait. Maybe that ashtray over there looks very 50s. Okay here's our pink 50s ashtray. It's very speckly. So this mark is Schaefer and Schaefer is the company that put the 22 karat gold decoration on top of this. The spatter looks almost like Hall pottery and they sold it to another company to do the decoration. I'll buy it for eight dollars. Four dollars on this cute little sauce pot. Hand-painted with roses. This is Japanese porcelain from about 1910. Papa had a big gift of a mustache cup in Leicester ware made in Germany about 1900. This is Leicester ware and then you would put a matchbox on there so the matches would stick out a little bit. Yeah like a yeah a paper matchbox. No not really a book. Actually a little box because the box would fit over the end here that would push the lid open a little. Pastoria American hexagonal foot. I remember getting very excited when I saw these in the past and they're really good quality but you know but they're not expensive here. I just have a lot of Pastoria American right now. Fill a box for five dollars. Wow they really want to get rid of that stuff. There's a handsome old dresser in American walnut with a little bit of a marble top and this is going to date to about 1880. Priced at two hundred dollars. These blue and white 1980s figures made offshore. Very quickly. Poorly painted. Very, very hard to sell. Ten dollars is cheap enough on the Moon and Stars banana boat there. Paul's Craft. You know there's Lance. There's definitely some things here but I think I found the thing I was looking for. A bunch of newer but fun metal animals here. There are a few old things out here on these tables so we're gonna take a look. This booth pay inside. Yeah we saw this other mate to that inside. I like the old railroad sign. Old crate here. Some newer signs. Lemonade cage. Actually that's pretty clever using a pop-up for that. Brain-free snow cones. You can get everything here. Guy doing the work. So somebody bought that old piece of furniture. Just tells you you can sell anything at these. There was one of those right there exactly like that at the place where you talked to the guy that did the cover. Oh yes yes yes. Yeah that's my first college roommate had one that his mother got as a wedding gift and it still worked. Renfro Valley Barn Dance. Yeah well on the Highway 25 sale you could sell that to the people selling there. The 6880 sale is the first weekend in June but there are highway sales all over Kentucky all summer and the first part of fall. It's really fun. Old one? No. Is it? Yeah. You know what? You're right that is older. It looks thin yeah. Political cartoons can be worth something depending on what happens and what the historians eventually say. History is written by the victors after all. Those are odd. Probably Japanese. He's cute. A trumpet. Ah Getson. USA made in Wisconsin. This is a basic student model. Now there's some pretty cool hats in here. This one is great and you know I could definitely use one today because I'll tell you my hair after being on the road a couple of days. Always have to check a feather hat over to make sure they're all rooted well and flat. Do you have a dollar on you or do you need to go to the car? Ask her how much that is. Oh how about the hat? Not like that. Dollars. Okay. Was it in here? Yeah but I don't need the box. What's this though? I think that goes to this one. Oh that one fell off. Yeah yeah now I'll leave the box. Okay but wait. Well actually. Do you want the box? It'd be nice to keep this. About seven times what we're paying for it when it was new. Go Kentucky. Cool. Which one is it? The one we've got. The little seat here is cute. You could recover that easily enough. And then there's this oddball thing. JSS Jr. Miami Beach delegate for the National Republican Convention. Oh a couple of times. Ah Nixon's the one. Interesting. Oh look at this. This is something somebody made. It's a decoupage thing with pictures. Give up the ship. Oh this is interesting. It's a piece of folk art and political memorabilia. It's so peculiar. JSS Jr. The person who this box was made for originally but that's not the part that's interesting about it. Although it'd be interesting to know who that is. Yeah I've got to see how much this is. Well we're finding a few things here. So we're going to look at the last part and see if there's anything old. I see a big turkey platter here. This looks like one of the Japanese ones from the 60s. A little early for Christmas. Yes made in Japan. Pretty lightweight. What was those sconces that are stuck on the wood? Oh yeah those are cool. The big candle sconces. Yeah that's right out of the 60s or 70s. A lot of this ornamental iron is selling well still to people who are in the mid-century because it does go with a lot of the color schemes. It also is part of that era especially in terms of architectural pieces. There's the sconces that Zeno was mentioning to me. Birdcage is cool enough for $10. It is metal but this is bigger stuff than I want to take. I like this. I like any of that sort of web design that's 1950s and 60s. That would have been to hold a little bit of wood by the fireplace. Looks like it's seeing a little bit of duty. $90 on the baker's rack. Cute little deck chairs that fold here that are the arches but this one's a little split. Yeah oh yeah the little uh plant stand. That's like a fire. Oh yeah I guess it is a fire grate. Oh it's a fire grate and that's how you sift out this ash. Yes that's a great color although that's a rather large suitcase. From the early 70s. Can take everything home in that. Some Faustoria American here. I think these are McCoy. Yeah they look like McCoy. Adams Lancaster. I think this might be Royal Dalton. No Wedgwood. That's right Williamsburg Pottery. We said we sold a big set of this that in the state sale was for $500. What's cooking in the bluegrass? So our first stop was a success but there are a lot of people out. It is Saturday so everybody in the world's going to be out. It's about 10 o'clock. We're going to head on up the road and see what else we can find. Well we are at the border of Boyle County, Kentucky. Kind of in the middle of nowhere but it looks like there's a bunch of stuff by the side of the road here including hard buffalo. There's this old barn here next to this deli and in front of it we've got somebody selling a bunch of something. So we're going to take a look. When I just see random trailers out like this you know sometimes you're taking a chance but you got to pull over somewhere and see if maybe they have something interesting and old. Something that people have overlooked. Now it took us a little longer than we thought to get to the end of the sale because the bridge was out in Versailles, Kentucky and so we had to make a detour and what a detour it was. We ended up here by mistake. Well it was a wonderful mistake because Irish Acres is one of the most incredible antique stores that I've ever seen in my life and it was so much fun to see it and to bring you this video. This is the thumbnail so check it out under the Kentucky playlist if you haven't seen it. It is an incredible store full of wonderful things but we weren't just here to look at incredible stores full of wonderful things. We were looking for bargains. So let's get back on the road and see what else we found. Some sort of a piece of an old office machine, a bait from Fort Dodge. Okay these are starting to be a thing again. This is clay art out of San Francisco. This one's USA and it's 1990 right before these all started being copied and made over in Japan. It's got the ribbons. It seems like it's clean enough. We'll see how much this is. So this is why you sometimes just make random stops. It's Saturday. A lot of the places that advertise antiques heavily may be picked over but since we wanted to stop and grab some food anyway well I got this clay art piece for one dollar. Well so far we've found a few things today and the prices have been great but now we're in an antique town. At least there's a few antique shops here. Unfortunately it's Sunday so all but this one seem to be closed but this one is having a half off sale and we're going to go on into Chaplin River Antiques. Perryville is a cute little old town on a river. We'll show you that in a minute but first I want to see what they have here. Lots of English china. Henry VIII here looks like a later pot probably made by Sadler. John Sadler is yes there's the name. It's a name we see on a lot of the 1980s and 90s era English teapots and they're all very fancy and fun and kind of special figurals like that. Let's see there's lamps, there's aprons, there's some vintage clothing, a lot of dinnerware but I have a lot of dinnerware. I like the color of these candlesticks. It looks early 60s but these are tiara by Indiana and they did these colors in the 70s. They did a lot of nice colors actually in their 1970s glass. Most of the dollhouse miniatures are newer but I like this ceramic sink in the green that looks like something out of the 30s. Big old crock. Crocks are expensive in this part of the country. Old bottles. There's an interesting Corel piece in a pattern I like and let's look at some jewelry. I haven't found a lot on this trip. The wreath pin is kind of ordinary really but let's see what this is. This looks like second world war with the flower and the paint and the rhinestones. I'll take that at half price. Sure I did see an outdoor dealer on the other side of this building and whoa duck your head! Woo! That's a close one. Hey if you can take just a minute and click thumbs up to let YouTube know you like this video. If you haven't subscribed take another second and do that and that way you can click the bell to be notified of all of our future videos and go on all of our adventures all over all the highways full of antiques all over the country. You really can buy anything on the highway 6880 sale and this old willys jeep looks like it's from the Korean war or possibly even world war ii. It has definitely seen better days but it would be an interesting relic to start with or at least there's some parts and let's see where these came from because yes there's our field that I saw driving by. All right they have some antiques we're going to take a look at what they've got over here. The glasses look mid-century modern but they actually do match this militaria because this is Benny Havens O. Benny Havens was an innkeeper near West Point and eventually the military expelled him from the reservation and he opened a tavern near West Point which was the place for the cadets to hang out when they wanted to complain about their officer superiors and this song that you see on the back actually refers to him and is sung by the army chorus now. Some other basic militaria magazine holders and basic hats and helmets. Nothing high ranking officer or anything of great import. I suspect that all sold earlier in the weekend. Long before vans they had slip-on shoes. A lot of guys like me did not like tying their shoes or laces would get in the way. These have a nice solid wood bottom that looked like they were very uncomfortable to break in. Nice old powder horn to the left and then a bunch of Zippo lighters. Zippo did a lot of things for different regiments as well as the Harley Davidson but also for regiments, naval vessels, duty bases overseas. Oh the construction here this is from just before 1940. I had one of these for sale once. They're great. They're a lot like an erector set. Unfortunately like erector sets they just don't sell for a lot anymore. It took me a while. Lots of uniforms. People will buy these to put on mannequins and then make part of a display or sometimes they'll use them for costuming. It's nice they're raising money for a monarch butterfly garden. We have seen a lot fewer monarchs in Kentucky the last few years which is scary. Another thing that's scary is the handle on that Corel cornflower blue coffee percolator. Those were recalled so be careful. And here is the slow flowing Chaplin River behind Perryville. Well we've been averaging one purchase per town until we got to Paris on a Sunday and Paris is closed unfortunately. This very fun antique shop is beautiful inside but we'll have to come back when they're open to see it. But before we left Paris I at least got the chance to cast my footprints on their celebrity walk of fame. Looks like antiques and vintage. They're still open. They're one of the few left. Nice deck chairs. Decent utility table. That was cut down from a bigger taller center table room to this low form about 1920 when coffee tables became a thing. The barber chair is neat. I mean I see a lot of things I'd like to have. This would sell where I sell but all of this is too big for what I'm driving. I just really wanted to look for smalls this trip and I have to say it has been more limiting. There's a porch glider up there. Old neon entrance sign. That would not be worth fixing. You just have to take the bulbs out and sell it as just a regular old sign. Cool old patio set. They got some nice stuff. Little letters are one obsolete thing you can use for collage but not a whole lot else. These are all ye little pieces for bands for a particular company back in the 60s. I learned the hard way. Only buy the all metal guns otherwise things do eat sometimes even when you're keeping them well. Boat motors are good. I mean they do have some interesting stuff here. I don't know whether they have much in the smalls. I do like this star stippled opalescent piece from about 1910. That is Fenton's Star and Swag pattern. One of the first patterns they ever made. I wonder if the blue bicentennial glass will pick up now that we're at the 250th anniversary. That looks like Impoli to me. Can't really make out that sticker on the bottom of course but the handle seems right. The way it's cased definitely does. It's a little on the thin side. The shape of the neck. This definitely has the hallmarks of Impoli glass. Blanco and Pilgrim both made canisters and kitchen glass like this in the 70s. I'm not personally a fan of that color but it is coming back into style now. Well this looks like Manhattan glass. It is actually Anchor Hawking's 1980s re-release called Park Avenue. They didn't make a fairy lamp in the original but I like this piece. It's what got me started on collecting Manhattan in fact. These Whiting and Davis mesh wallets look interesting to me. I have carted wool before but I think I like the wallets better. I'm sure these are Whiting and Davis because the liner seems right. I'm looking for the tag but so far nothing is priced and the prices I'm hearing him giving people are really good. That's our label. Well he quoted me five each on the wallet so I'm gonna definitely take those and I'm gonna keep bundling here. The carter is a little too worn for me to take but I will definitely take the Park Avenue fairy lamp. He said five on that also. Kentucky Derby glass will ask about that. And then this dinnerware piece here is Lambert. Oh that's a good company. Nice heavy restaurant wear from the early 1900s. Hmm still debating. That is the filthiest piece of Blanco I've ever seen. It's from the 80s. He said five bucks. I'm gonna take it home and wash it because if it cleans up it's worth 45. Yeah the wall wasn't not very good. Smoking yellow construction site. It's got the easel. How does this turn? Oh it's missing the center one. Obviously a lot of tobacco growing and distribution in Kentucky and somebody ended up with all the Joe Camel stuff when that was taken off of the market because it was considered to be aimed at children. I have to say Joe Camel seemed a little adult to me but because he was canceled he's very collectible now and they have stacks and stacks of this. I think that the signs are the ones that are going to be the most valuable though. They've got quite a bit. There he is. The Thames. The Ashtray. You see a lot of this stuff. A lot. But the sign that was used in the store so there won't be as many. Well I'll say they're a little bit greater. A little bit greater. It's hard to say whether there's going to be anything left on day three in jewelry but he sure has a lot of it and oh wait look over there. This is nice from around 1970 with the black Japanning as they call it on the back and yeah that's attractive. I'll put that in my pile. So far I have to say the whole bundle is costing me under $50 and I'm pretty excited. This has been a really good stop. I hope we find some more stuff here. These chairs are old Abbey runs but they have some age now. Probably 60 years? 50 years? Well I just knew we were going to find something at the last stop. We probably should start at this end next year and see what that's like. Oh that's great. Well I looked at a lot of that stuff. At some point pocket knives went from being utility things to being things that were bought to collect and to impress and all about the looks and so we see a lot of these newer ones here. How's it been for you this weekend? Good I'm glad to hear that. Yeah it took a little while to warm up. I think the bridge being out in the middle of it kind of messed people up. The Carson City dollar in the case there is one that was done by GSA. GSA dollars were sold by the government services administration because they found a bunch at Fort Knox in a vault in the early 70s after we were long off the silver standard and so the Nixon administration sold them off for $35 a piece. Now they're worth about $235 a piece. Well I've got to say it turned out to be worth coming to the end of the line. Maysville is pretty much it. There's very few sales after this town heading down towards the Ohio River, but this last stop is turning out to be pretty good. I even like some of these silver plate pieces from the 1880s and 90s. Well we're on the last table at the last stop after 400 miles of yard sales. A little bit of Sharon Depression glass. I like that pattern and a good strong light like this you can see how it comes out a little bit more because of it being impressed from the back so it's a heavier pattern as opposed to these little light patterns that you see here this looks like poinsettia. Well I can't wait till we can do another one of the highway sales in Kentucky. They start now but they go all summer and into the early fall. About every two or three weeks there's at least one of the highways in Kentucky full of yard sales for 100, 200, and in this case 400 miles. You'll find a lot of fun, a lot of cool stuff, and a lot really great people along the way. If you enjoyed this video check out this one. 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