Exploring a 1920s Estate Sale Frozen in Time, Full of Antique & Vintage Finds!

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SEATTLE
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A wrong turn leads us to the right place! We planned to hit a bunch of fresh estate sales today, but somehow we went to the one that had been going on for a while first. One look at this handsome 1920s Tudor-style home in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, and we realized this was a stroke of luck!

This house is a time capsule from its era, with all the original appliances, furniture, antiques, collectibles, art, and some crazy cool musical instruments from the decade of the Roaring '20s! We enter through the basement at the family’s request, where monitor-top refrigerators, wringer washers, clocks and parts, vintage electrical and house trims, and a few oddball things whet our appetite.

But it’s upstairs where the real fun is! This place has so much cool stuff, and it’s priced right for reselling to our collectors. We snatch a concrete paperboy lawn art piece, consider a stack of folding deck chairs at just $10 each, look at wow-factor 1920s lamps, and then venture into the kitchen. Beyond the 1920s stove, there are original cocoa cartons with great graphics that we claim, elegant glass, cool kitchen stuff, and a door to the dining room. Fun pieces of 1920s tableware, interesting statues and figural pieces, a player piano, and a huge organ set a scene right out of "The Great Gatsby"! We’re piling it up in our hold pile outside, and there’s so much more left to see.

Clocks, linens and blankets, chairs and rugs, wall art, and a cool birdcage that we have to have fill the rest of the downstairs with wonderment! There are so few 1920s homes left intact like this; it feels almost a shame to take these things away… but what a rare opportunity to see a place so true to its time in history. We watch a super cool Art Deco clock go for a discount, making us realize we might be able to get even more than we bargained for as we climb the old carved staircase.

Upstairs, we load up with so many more great old pieces! A 1920s tile-top table for just $30… signs from the old Seattle buses for each major part of town… antique books, a Hallicrafters radio, a puffy floral afghan, an early Seattle souvenir plaque… I’m buying boxes full, and there are so many more cool things we see that we could get if space and budget allowed! As it is, I have to run to the bank for more cash to get the assemblage we’ve found.

This estate is a slice of history we just don’t see anymore, and I’m so grateful this “wrong turn” proved to be the right place to start my estate sale-ing day!