We Found Incredible Vintage Bargains Today

Well, we're hitting this show in the middle of the day. This is a show I hope to do someday, but we're here shopping. I've got my two dollars to get in. We are at Collector's Carnival Antique and Flea Market to drop off some flyers of our own for our storehouse sale coming up in June and for teak stock coming up in southern Michigan on Mother's Day weekend. And that means that even though there's a ton of potential bargains out here, which we will come back and shop, our first stop is going to be over there. The event center is where the really serious dealers are, including a friend of ours. Okay, we put the literature on the table and in we go. He's got a good fiberglass shade. Those are money these days. But we're headed over here to see a friend. She looks like she's busy. She said she did really well on the setup yesterday, so we may not get to talk much, but we'll say hi. But first, let's look at some of the cool stuff she has. She loves Christ and so do I. And look at this spaghetti horse. I just sold the whale with those rhinestones. $30 seems like a good price for those. Those are just really fun. And here's the Culver ice bucket and shot glasses. We usually just see the tumblers in that by Culver from the 1960s. Oh, how funny. I just bought the exact same pig. We think these were made somewhere in this part of the country because we see them with the snout that almost looks like a heart. Treasure Craft briefly did something similar to that, but the front was a little differently decorated back in the early 50s. I didn't know till this morning that I was coming to the show, so I got to surprise Beth Kemper and meet some really fun viewers who were not expecting me either. Beth had a question about this, and it took me a while to access in my mind who the artist was. But it's Kaoru Kawano, and he only lived to be 48. He did this in 1965, the year he dyed the girl with the dove. And it was very popular and is a great piece of mid-century modernism. And she offered it to me for $35, so I said yes and got it from her. I can certainly double that or more in Seattle because he did exhibitions in Seattle, New York, and Chicago and became very famous in the early 50s. I really like this Czech perfume from the 1930s. I just thought the way they etched it was really good. And this one has the dauber, which seems to be mainly intact. You really have to check those. I keep forgetting and I keep getting home and having ones where the dauber is broken. But this one has its original paper label, and they're asking $69, which is a fair retail price. And of course we see regional things here. This is all Uhl, U-H-L pottery. And Uhl was made in Huntingberg, Indiana, which is not very far from here at all. And so you see the little liquor bottles they made in the pre-prohibition and early post-prohibition era. And candlesticks, those are hard to find. Teapots and crocks and cookware, you see that more often. The Dutch shoes are kind of interesting. Prices are going to be anywhere from $10 to $100. And then they have the book. You don't see this reference book very often because it's been out of print for about 30 years, but very useful. And this is a really cool thing. They say this is by Uhl as well, and it's the Liberty Bell in a lamp. And at $85, that seems tempting. I have to think if someone is a serious Uhl collector, this is something you don't see very often. And it is the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence this year. So that's a thinker. I would sure like to find some beaded purses I could afford at this sale because I just love them. And I think they're beautiful and I like to have them in inventory. It shows they're real attention getters. I have a ton of jewelry this time. This one's really nice because it's such micro beading and I love the orange. And these prices are really decent for what they are, but not cheap enough for me to buy for a resale. That one is tempting, but it's missing some of the fringe, unfortunately, and that's a thing that's a pain to replace. And this one, how much are you? Yeah, very pretty. More than I can pay. Yes, it is okay for kids to touch, and it's great to bring kids to antique shows because if you can find things that they understand and are interested in, like where do we live, then all of a sudden a collector is born. I really enjoy the dealers in here. They bring some of the best stuff, but there's a whole lot of new dealers who haven't sold at this show outside, and I want to check them out while I have a chance. So we're going to skim this quickly, but they have a great sterilizer cabinet from about 1910 right there. This looks like my dad's collection of obsolete engineering stuff. The condenser, the signal tester, and of course these things to test the tubes because you add tubes in radios and television, and these tube testers are pretty good. They usually sell for $100 to $100 and a half apiece, sometimes for more because the people who are fixing all this old stuff need these things that were used to fix them back in the old days. The kids' heads on the Vanity Fair phonograph kind of look like Stewie on Family Guy, but the phonograph itself is really cool from the early 50s. And a tiger, not Mickey Mouse, on the top. Only $35. That seems like a pretty good price. I know this is a flea market as well, so you're going to see things like the new hands-on nests, except they're to hold bottles. I don't really get that at all. Vogel claimed to be the oldest soft drink maker in Indiana, and they were based right here in Evansville, so this is a local interest piece from about the 1930s. They closed in the 60s, and they're asking $15 for that one. This entire section are dealers who I haven't seen here before, and I like this little 70s flower power kind of purse. I'm starting to see people collecting these. As long as the latch is good, those have to hold well because otherwise it's useless. This one seems to be in good shape overall, and I like the lucite handle with that bright color. I don't see the price on this though. This looks like a 1920s or 30s era sewing cabinet, but it has all the floss and embroidery string in and that makes it interesting. I'm going to see how much this is. Well, this doesn't look like the rest of the stuff in the space. Another really pretty purse. I'm going to ask to see that one. It's 1910s vintage. Now this is really fun. He's asking $95 for it. It is all 50 states. 7-Up did this display in the late 1970s with one can for each state, and they were the bimetal cans, which meant it was a mix of aluminum with the old steel pressed cans, which was terrible because it meant it still was unrecyclable. So these did not last very long, and you don't see these displays. That seems like a good price. Oh yes, and he's showing us the 7-Up can music box. I've seen the radios before. I've never seen a music box before. That's a really fun thing. I would have him wind it up and play it for us, but, you know, YouTube is not kind about us playing other people's work. This is cool. This is stamped in. It's Wyandotte toys straight out of 1950s Detroit. They actually located there so that they could get scrap metal from the car companies because they figured that would cut down their cost, and it really helped them be able to produce through the depression and make money. Well, we got a nice bundle price on these, and we're going to take them to the car. We'll do a haul at the end, and I'll tell you how much I paid for everything. These spotlights from old cars sell every time I get them. They're asking $20 a piece. I usually get $35 or $40. Pretty smart to have this already on a cart. The fire plug is $150. That's not a bad price. I've always wanted one for some reason. And next to is the pump. You find a lot of this kind of farm stuff in the Midwest still at really reasonable prices, and the primitives people really like it. I could get twice that for it if I took it out to the coast. Because this is a hybrid antique show and flea market, you're going to see old stuff in the middle of new stuff sometimes like this. This is from about 1970, and the bartender cocktail shaker always sells. It's got a little bit of rusted spotting right there, but I can remove that with fine steel wool if I'm careful, and you'll never know it was there as long as you can scrape it off and not see pock marks, which I don't. I think we're in good shape, and I'll go ahead and get this, but I'll ask them if they'll take 10 since it doesn't look good. And I like world clocks. Anything with a globe on it from the mid-century seems to sell when it's a modernist look. 10 bucks on it. Looks like you just unclip the back to put the batteries in. Let's make sure there's not corrosion since I don't have a battery to test it. I have batteries with me, but not this size. It's a 1.5 volt, but there's no corrosion, so I'm going to take a chance on it at $10 because I think it's a $25 or $30 clock. Just did an estate sale in Tennessee with a whole lot of old oil lamps. This one, the chimney appears to be old. You see wobbly imperfections, but then look at the base. I like the ones with color, but that knob, that is Hong Kong, and you can read it on there if you get it in the right light. And so yeah, that's not of interest to me. Even though the shade looks old, the rest of it isn't. 1980s kid stuff is really hot right now, so definitely gonna look at this strawberry shortcake pile. The house is kind of cute. It's very cute, in fact, but it looks like most of this is pretty much priced right. But there's definitely interest. We've got the lunch pail here. Very pretty blue bowl here. This is Murano with the two different colors of blue, but they've got a big price on it. It is a nice submersible piece. I understand why they think it's special because it is really well done. With the corporatization of a lot of former family farms in the 1980s, we see a lot of things that are 40, 50, 60, 70 years old in old barns, including this old railroad oiler. This is for the MOPAC, Missouri Pacific Railway, and it's priced about right considering what it is. The hose opening on the back tells us this is a gas iron for a tailor, a big heavy one, with a fluting device on the side so that they didn't have to have multiple irons like you would have had to have at home. There's where the gas went in, and they had a flexible tube. This is about 1910. About the same time, you would have used these galvanized buckets to be washing your clothes. Life was a lot harder on the farm back then. Nowadays, we'd use something like this rendering pot as a planter outside, especially because this one has a crack in the bottom, but that represents a whole lot of work people did on the farm back in the old days. These would be great to turn into wine racks. They're old bottle carriers for milk. And let's see, lots of baseball bats, more wash tubs. Life was hard out there on the farm back then. We'll scan the junk jewelry for anything that's cute old vintage. The bowling pin is cute, but it's missing some stones. And this one has great color, but it looks a little dead in some of the stones like water got behind the foil and discolored it, causing a dead stone. These are from the 70s. They seem both cute and crafty, but I do like the colors. That's a possibility. I imagine they're not charging much for these. Those would wear cute. The video I did just before this one, I was just talking about how if you have a hot day and you have glued in stones in jewelry like pavé jewelry, well, there's the stone. It's fallen out. So you definitely have to keep this stuff in the shade. If I could find the other stone, I would take this and repair it because for $5 an older Monet bracelet is a good deal. These are great to use as shows and in displays as a dealer, and they're great for people to use at home because it's portable shelving that rolls around $35. There's your galvanized wash tubs on an old wooden stand. You would have had a ringer between the two. One would be fresh water, one would be your soapy water, and you would ring them out between. Again, a lot of work. People were so glad when electric appliances came on in the 1920s. This is definitely the part of the country to find these. I really like these. They were wash basins on old farms. Especially if you can find the metal lid, they are great to use as coolers at a party. And, wow, they have a whole row of them at $100 each here. This looks like some fancy ray gun from a 1960s sci-fi movie, but it is actually a sprayer for a farm. Very mid-century modern. They're asking $100. Well, I found some really good stuff earlier, but now I'm ready to find some bargains, and everything on these tables is a dollar. Now, we see a lot of these bottles because this was stuff that was in circulation in the mid-70s, and then they quit taking the bottles back with deposit, and so a lot of these just ended up filling barns. Ah, yes, 30 years ago, since the Joe Camel controversy, where they decided that he was appealing to children too much, and they made them quit using him. And so for a buck a piece, a lot of this old Joe Camel stuff is a soon-to-be future collectible. Some of it's already selling for pretty good money. If I can find any pieces that are in perfect condition that are Joe Camel, and not just the regular Camel, I would get them. Yes, Camel Cigarettes was about to have its 80th anniversary, and Joe Camel was going to be a main feature of the advertising. So we do see these pieces, and if this had the pen, I would absolutely take it because it shows all the other premiums that people will be collecting in the future. In fact, some people are collecting them now. These little plastic helmets that were giveaways and promotions from back in the 70s, there's the Seattle Mariners old logo, and the early 80s, well, if you could find some from teams that are in your area, like Kansas City or Boston, these could be worth getting for a buck each. We know they have some age because they're marked Made in USA, and if you have an old ball jar that needs a lid, like one of the blue ones, this is a great place to find one. Just about every beer or soft drink had a goblet like this in the 1970s. This one is for Pepsi. I believe Bartlett Collins made these, and that's the Pepsi logo before 1973, so that's worth getting. And I sold sets of four of this early 1960s Raffia ware for $20 a set at my last show in Florida. So for $4 for a set of four, these are a great price too if they're in good condition. You have to make sure that the top is not separated from the bottom because if the seal broke, then they won't stay on when you go to use them. I usually get four or five dollars for these 7-Up bottles with the woman in the one piece and the bubbles above her head from about 1950. Skateboarding came about so that people inland could pretend to surf, and then it turned into its own sport, and this was done sometime probably around the 1980s when skateboarding really started to elevate from just something kids did on the street to being tricks and sports and involved in some serious competitions and big money. Every beer every year around the late 70s and early 80s had one of these calendars like this that you put in a bar. Now this one unfortunately is May, which means that we're missing part of the calendar. I prefer when they're complete, but the price is right for what it is, as well as on this bowtie bed sign for $85. Hanging prints on chains were very popular in the early 1900s, and they sometimes were used as flu covers as well. They have 28 on the Christmas one, which seems right because of the theme. There's a whole bunch of fun Art Nouveau ones here. This one is very sweet with the two women and priced about correctly as well. Hands-on nests are super popular now, and they have been reproduced widely, so make sure you check because this one was not made originally in jadeite. The blue one has the feel of greasy new glass and not very good detail in the coxcomb, and those are some clues. You really want the older ones if you are going to pay a vintage price. I am selling off a huge collection of playing cards, and yet I keep finding more because there's really interesting ones out there. This one's Southern Pacific Lines. This is going to show routes along the railroad and $12. I'll ask if they'll take 10, but that's a great price. Let's see what condition they're in and make sure they're all there. There it is, the Daylighter. These ran to San Francisco and Los Angeles. They were beautiful streamlined trains in the 1930s. And here are some of the scenes along the way. This is downtown El Paso at that time. Ah yes, very cool. Look like they're in good shape. And there is the card that's often missing, the Salad Bowl. You could use it as an extra joker, but of course it was mainly meant to advertise their dining service. So this looks like it's very complete. It's got the joker, it's got the rules card, and we'll take it. And this is an old piece from the 1880s, the C&O Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, showing the heart of the continent. A beautiful cover. $28 is fair for this piece. I don't want to soil it, and they have it sealed, so I won't take it out and show you. But you get the idea of how elegant the lithography is. But even the more modern timetables are worth something now because there's so few railroads left. Almost everyone has merged at this point with another big merger proposed. Old bath cabinet stuff, the more lurid the better. This is antiseptic germicide in a great art deco bottle, and if it wasn't missing that corner I would buy this because I think it's only three dollars. Self-sealing stoppers like these came about in the 1970s when these Hilda canisters were made with very fun, happy vegetables. A very 70s look. They're asking what boils down to about $24 for the set of three. Brewery's another business that's gone through major consolidation, so these old labels mostly are no more. $18 for the burger from the 60s is about right. Oh, too bad this has a hairline crack, because this is a Francoma pillow vase in the Mayan-Aztec pattern, and you don't see these very much. And I can tell by the way the rue tile has a very golden aspect that this is older, and when you look at the bottom it's the aida clay. That would be worth twice the price. In the old days they could not fire the glazes for red and black economically, so the red was painted on cold, and that cold paint typically comes off. So when you see one so perfect as this, be suspicious. And look at the bottom. That is not the real McCoy mark. Not the real McCoy at all. If you look at the shape, the C and the O are not quite right, and you need to know this so you don't get burned. It's a cool looking string holder, but it is a 1990s reproduction. Cadmium in orange does glow under a black light, so with this one the foot would probably glow orange. And it's not as expensive as this one, which is more orange and will glow more strongly. So today the Amberina price is more, but the ruby was actually more expensive when it was new and is actually harder to find now. I like using old stuff that's practical. This is a great juicer, really easy to use, really easy to clean from the 50s, and what a great color. 6D deposit. 6D meant six pence in England back when they used the old pence. Beatty is a company we don't know in this country. The cork on the bottom held in until you put a spigot in that little hole at the bottom, and this was made in Lambeth, so actually related to the Dalton factories, which became Royal Dalton. This should date to about 1900. Oversaturation through the Hummel Collectors Club really killed the market for Hummels after the 1990s, and a lot of these are from that era. But at $10 each there's still certain ones, larger ones, more complicated ones, that are really worth buying. Even now most of these sell for more than double. That fake McCoy was actually copying these. These are by Pearl China, and these are the real ones from the 1940s and 50s. The Mammy and Chef cookie jar look very dated by our standards, but at the time they were considered very cute. And they are collectible, and still can sell for three figures easily. And there is the mark on the bottom of those. And to the left we have some plastic Aunt Jemima from the 1950s. If the color scheme of this bowl looks so similar to the Viking glass we saw, it's because this was by the same company. This was the Janus pattern that they came up with back in the 30s when they were still the new Martinsville glass company. They went bankrupt during the Second World War, and when they reformed they decided to become Viking. And then they branched out into all sorts of modernist designs. Oh kittens in the basket! Yes it is spring and a very springy planter pot basket here. This is by American Bisque. You can tell by that glazed hourglass shape in the middle of those two dry feet. The dry feet sat on the kiln, so the piece wouldn't stick to the kiln when they took it off. That one is $35. Only $25 on this Roseville. Such a cute piece, but it does have a little repair on the rim. Weller Pottery was still at its peak in the 19-teens when they made the Zona Artware tea set here with the painted grapes. Collectors call this 1910s era mark the typewriter mark. Fun modernism, these trophies. These were from the Ford Motor sponsored NFL punt, pass, and kick competitions. They ran these from the 50s into at least the 1980s that I know of. And the little statuettes are pretty cool. They're very modernism. You could pretend they were an Oscar at 50 feet. Ooh, a five dollar table. I've done well at the five dollar table at this show before. This little set of glasses is actually very nice for little wine or port or something like that. I see three of the circus glasses. If I was short on a set I would buy those to complete a set. Ooh, and look at these. I get about $20 for these Italian wooden carved figures from the 1980s. And at five bucks, especially with the mortar and pestle with whatever foaming over, yeah, I think I'll take that for sure. And this guy is Coalport. Yes, Coalport is very good quality, similar to Royal Dalton, but not as widely made or distributed. And so even though they'd been around longer than Dalton, they started in 1750, they too were sucked up by Royal Dalton in the consolidation of the Staffordshire Potters. Oh, I've got to get this Prisino for five bucks and take it home. He worked at Opryland when it was an amusement park, and orange is his color. This is federal glass, and it looks like it's right from about 1976, the year of his birth. So yeah, that's a must gift. This is fun. This is 1930s made in Japan pottery, and they're just a nice hanging basket. They're colorful, they're bright, they're just fun with the poppies and all the other flowers, and I'll take that for five dollars if it's in good shape, which it appears to be. $1.25 on the Crown Siamese Cat Lamp is not cheap enough for me to buy it, but it's a pretty good deal. That's the low end of retail these days. I sold mine for close to $1.85, and they're selling for that pretty regularly now. I like the Weller piece in the middle there, and these Roseville are very nice. I like the wall pocket on the left. Oh, that's a really fun pattern, and $85. There's the old ink stamp. The original florals in the 1920s had the ink stamp rather than the embossed. And when Roseville got to be really hot collectible in the 80s and 90s, these teapots were going for $2.50 a piece, so that seems like a really good deal at half that price. Lots of pretty mid-century pottery, but this piece is different, and it's newer. It was for McCoy's 150th anniversary. It was actually after McCoy had quit producing, but the Collector's Society had a small batch of these made, and this one is signed by Billy and Nelson McCoy themselves. They are no longer around, and that makes that interesting to me. Nice to see a lot of head vases that are real 1950s and 60s era, not reproductions. Prices between $25 and $45 seem just right. What goes in must come out. I'm not sure about that on a child's mug. On the other hand, the bell is cute on the bottom. This is Art Deco, and looks like something made about 1935, and I don't know the maker. It might be porcelair out of Ohio. Some really cool 1950s era hull pottery. The parchment and pine ewer is really big and extravagant, and a great look, and fairly priced, and the ebb tide basket is a good price. But I really like this butterfly lava bow. A lava bow is a two-piece set with a font. This one doesn't have a working spigot. Some of them did. It was a very popular wall decoration around 1960. Three little Royal Beiruth creamers. I just think these are so cute and sweet with the little sunbonnet girl on this one. Sunbonnet, a very collectible pattern. People really got interested in this in the 1980s, and there were a lot of different things done in it from the teens to about the 30s, so a lot of different things to collect, including quilts and appliques. This one has a little different shape and is slightly more expensive. There's the Royal Beiruth mark on that, and then the one on the left here, I've had this before, is Little Bo Peep. This one doesn't sell for quite as much, even though she's a cute nursery rhyme. They're usually about $25. And then the last one here from the 19-teens has a very pretty portrait of a very bestie lady. They just did such nice transferware that they've been very collectible ever since. With all the interest in art glass, I really feel that carnival glass is an underappreciated area that should come up in interest and value. This is a 19-teens piece with the grape and cable, and the price is very reasonable, and only $25 on this piece, also from the 19-teens. I always like the simplicity of this little flip tray by Faustoria in the heirloom pattern. The ruby was the exception. Most of their colors were actually opalescent and pastel, and this was done in the 1950s and 60s. They have a whole table of these Royal Dalton character jugs. They are not Toby's. Toby's are a full figure, whereas the character jugs are just the head. Now here's a Matryoshka doll that has no innards, because this is meant to hold a vodka bottle, not a bunch of other figurines. Most of these paperweights look like recent Offshore, but this of course is a and that's cute, and priced fairly. It's a nice color. This is Lalique, and that seems really inexpensive for the anemone, and I've always loved the way they do the black stippling there. Great price, but is there something wrong with it? That seems too cheap to believe, and hmm, look at that end. It looks a little satiny. I believe it was filed down from a chip. Vintage board games came on really strongly during the pandemic, and they are still strongly collectible ever since, because they represent so many fun things from the past, like the Kojak TV show from the 1970s. Ringley Brothers Circus posters have become even more collectible since their demise, and this one looks like it probably dates to about the 1960s. It's not entirely perfect, but it's in pretty good shape overall, and it has Lawson Wood Monkeys. They were very popular from the 1930s through the 50s as advertising pieces for blotters and calendars and all sorts of stuff, and they are asking about the right price for it. Wheaton Glass made the clown head bookends in the 1970s, and come on, these are sweet clowns, and they're good quality, because Wheaton was great quality. They made all the Cape Cod for Avon, for example. Now there are a few spaces like this that are just stuff people brought from home, so it's going to be new, old, and in-between, but this is a Military Mark II flashlight from the 1970s, 80s period, and they sell for a little bit, so let's see how much they're asking, because the prices on everything else on this table are pretty cheap. This has an original price of $5 from about 1980, and how fun with that. The string art is really collectible. I like mobiles, and one of these has never been opened. We'll take that one. These are pretty collectible from the 1930s and 40s. They are record cleaners. They're felt on the other side, and the ink spots is one of the more desirable. There's also Bing Crosby and other stars. $35 they're asking. This is great. Only here would you have a tractor, which is the shuttle, because they are getting people around this giant fairgrounds. This is spread out over probably a half mile area. And these folks, one I'd met before, one I hadn't, they came all the way from Wisconsin for this show, and I'm so glad I ran into them. I lost the sound to my recording with them, so I hope they leave a comment, because they have a YouTube channel now. Some nice pieces of American pottery here. I especially like this really big McCoy with the leaves over the round Art Deco discs. Very 1930s. That's a fair price considering the size and the conditions. Really good. This is when McCoy started to up their game. I loved this Fisher Price jet. I never owned it. My friends down the road did, and I always insisted on playing with this one and the Parking Garage. And if I was going to start collecting these big Fisher Price playsets from the 70s, those are the two I'd have to have. This one seems to be complete with all of its people too. I also fished once as a child with the Zebco Snoopy reel, but mine did not have the original packaging or the original bobbers shaped like Snoopy, and that's what makes this one worth about $35 to $45. They do sell for that price. Well, they have a Matryoshka doll that shows all of the former presidents and the contender who did not end up being U.S. president, so this is an unusual set to find. A lot of people are adding Velcro as top closures and using these old sewing boxes as purses now, because they've got great flower-powered graphics. This one's in really good shape. A lot of them were kept very lovingly by their grandma owners, and it's only $24. Okay, we finally made it to one of the back buildings. These folks have tons of Hot Wheels and tons of Hallmark ornaments, and these are entire areas of knowledge that, for me, I have to look them up. There's people who sell these all the time, and they know why one Barbie is $15 or $20 and one is $8 or $9, and so there's just a little study to it like anything else, but definitely collectors for these. There's a row of these little metal barns with about a dozen dealers in each, and a lot of them are selling newer stuff, but then you will see vintage and sometimes mixed in. And here we have, oh, in the $3 box, the 1982 World's Fair pencil sharpener in the box, and that's been over 40 years. There are people collecting 82 fair now. These are fun smoky flower-powered glasses from the 1970s, perfect for wine. I think they're by Libby Glass. Very cute. I'm sure it's organic, and it's probably healthy, and some people I'm sure it's a delicacy, but I'm not necessarily ready for the roadkill jerky yet. Ah, here we go. Our enemies at AA Importing brought these in and helped kill the RS Prussia market in the 1980s. Let me show you the mark. That is fake. They never were done like that. They would have said Prussia or Germany or Sewell or Tillowitz or one of the other factory locations, and they were not that shape. And it's too thick. It's too heavy. The decorations are not really right for the color of the period. Everything is just a little off about them, and because of that, they shouldn't fool anybody now. We've adjusted to these. I have always liked the Indiana diamond point compote with the ruby staining on the edge. I think it's just a good look. That terrine is also very 70s. Kit and Caboodle. These are definitely dolls of the era we're seeing collectors for, and then we've got Mickey and Minnie. If these are Walt Disney productions, which they are, they date before 1986. Shawnee made a Wishing Well, and so did American Bisque. This is the American Bisque version. They came in green and brown. McCoy did one, too. The American Bisque has that triple dry foot on this one. We showed you their double dry foot with the hourglass earlier. The cold paint in red is pretty good on these. A pretty nice price on this Blackmore figure by Royal Copley, as well. I always thought it was a rather striking pose. They did that as a head vase, as well. Gold decorated Culver glass is very popular now, and this one was a shot glass for Kennedy Space Center in the time of the Space Shuttle, and that tells us what we need to know, which is that Culver stayed in business until about the 1990s, and they're only asking $4 for this. I probably could sell it for double in Florida. Between 1900 and 1920, little oval frame prints like these were very popular, and look how sweet the little baby is. It's a metal frame lithograph to look like wood grain, so that was one of the first fabulous fake wood grains that you see in production. I like the shape and the heavy weight of this piece. This is Alamo pottery when you see that sort of squarish numbering system on the stock numbers. That's your indication popular in the 30s. Then by the 60s, this was California Originals, competitor of Treasure Craft. That's a pretty color. Red Wing did dozens of dinnerware patterns, and this shape and coloration from the 1960s is actually rather hard to find. I've always thought that was attractive. Likely another barn find, this big old store scale. Might have even been for hardware, because that's a pretty big scoop. And then down here we have the tractor lawn sprinkler, and this one appears to be the all-metal version. And the all-metal version is older and definitely more collectible and valuable than the ones with plastic parts. Young farm kids were as likely to play with tractors as they were with toy cars, and that is why you see a lot of these in this part of the country. Most of them were made by Ertle out of Iowa, USA mark. That is what makes these more collectible if they're the American made before they went offshore, and the prices seem about in line. Croquet, another thing that became more popular again during the pandemic, and this set with the metal holder, that's the unusual part, is from about 1950. That holder has kept it in really good condition, so they're asking $125. There's a very pretty enamel bowl. This is from similar to a bride's basket, just a smaller version. Really like that. See the way that's finished? Now compare this finish to this piece next to it. This is another one from AA Imports. Not finished properly. It looks Victorian. It isn't. It feels greasy. It has no wear. I wish they would quit making these fakes. It causes confusion because in an online listing, you wouldn't know the difference. That's why it pays to come to antique shows. The Atari video computer system. Another 80s classic that is very popular with collectors now. $225 is a fair price considering that this is in great condition and has all of the original games with it. She's got a really cool thing. Yes, the old coin counters from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, when they would give you your change, wear it on the belt. That's a really good price for it. I buy and sell these all the time. I typically get a little more than that. Bowling ball in the original box. And this is from the 60s. And it's one of the first ones that has this mottled coloration. And I really like these. And people love to put those on stakes in the garden to look like gazing balls now. That's a pretty decent price. This big bass amp with the sender there is a pretty decent deal for a new person getting into music. $200. And the crate is less than half that, but that's because the crate needs some work. I am forgoing the tractor shuttle and driving over here to the other buildings because I keep buying stuff and I need to be able to get to my car easily. They're really doing a good job getting people out to this. This place has been mobbed all day and this hall is full. I've never seen it with this many vendors before. Aw, this is one of these sweet pillowcases that people would send to their mother when they were stationed abroad or traveling. I probably should get this. I've got the show at Teakstock in southern Michigan coming up this weekend on Mother's Day. I'll be doing an appraisal fair that day, so I guess that'll be my gift. A mountain ducan repurposed as a flower power pin. I'm not mad at it. Now, I don't usually pay a lot of attention to $3 jewelry, but every so often there's something vintage in there that's cool. I like this shape for the earrings. I mean, they're very 70s. They're just plastic. I would buy them, but the clips are kind of loose and they're not really positioned in a way that they can be tightened very easily. Sometimes you can just bend them and they'll get a tighter grip, but these are made in a different way. And I think I sold all of my owl dangles like this from the 70s, and this one is pretty good. Price is good. I wonder if I have a gold chain for it. And then this is Sarah Coventry. I've had that piece before. Not recommended when flying. Only in 1973 would they have gotten away with this, and there is the 73 date. A lot of times with paper, if you see a number in the corner and it has a dash, that actually tells you what year and what edition. And people are starting to collect atlases now because, well, now everyone uses GPS, so these are no more. This one's from the second world war when there were a lot of driving restrictions, and that's why it's the special war edition. I'm sure there were some places you were not allowed to go, but you certainly could go to Los Angeles back when the suburbs were actually separated from the city and it was a lot smaller. Because boat motors are so collectible, the stuff regarding them is collectible, and that's why this little manual for Mercury have the 1950s is priced at $55. You notice owner's manuals for cars like the 68 Chevy here are also a little bit more spendy because these are classic vehicles now and a lot of people are buying them. A friend of mine had one of these in high school and the power steering went out, and I was the only one used to driving a car without power steering, so I got to muscle at home. Looks a little cold out to be dressed like that, don't you think? They have a lot of fun paper here. The grand old Opry. That would do well where I am in Kentucky. And the souvenir program looks like it is from the 1970s. This was called Incolay Stone originally in the late 60s and early 70s, but it is molded resin. But it was done with a certain panache and considered good quality then and now, and so that's why this is 50. Before 1926, the roadways were all the responsibility of the states, and the AAA, American Automobile Association, grew up comprised of a lot of separate little groups from different states, and some of them had their own publications, including the Hoosier Motorist. I'll bet the graphics are great. I'd love to take this out and look at it, but I'll respect it and leave it in. But this is the 1926 Auto Show Edition. I'm seeing people really gravitating towards Roseville Windcraft again. This was gloss before hull pottery did gloss. They started doing this in the late 40s, and the designs have a lot of color and hand painting. You notice the difference between the matte glazes of the earlier pieces like this double bed base there, and then back here. I've always liked this gardenia pattern. I don't understand why it doesn't sell for more. I think it's so subtle and nice in the band. It's very attractive and a little more straightforward. Some people in my generation know Spike Jones because they ran reruns of his movies when I was a kid, and he was so much fun. Musical comedian, did The Viewer's Face, and other such things during the Second World War. And this Spike Jones and the City Slickers drum is 50 bucks in really good condition. Basketball fans might be surprised to see a football player on the Memphis Grizzlies pennant here, but this is from the 1974 to 75 Memphis Grizzlies World Football League team, including Larry Zonka. They actually got three really good players, and they poached them from the NFL, which did make the NFL happy. The WFL only lasted a season and a half, so these pennants are hard to find. This one's not in perfect condition, but it's a pretty cool footnote to sports history. And then behind it we have a signed Orlando Magic banner. Some imaginative repurposing of these washstand tubs that we saw before. They've made them into ottomans just by putting legs underneath and a nice felt tack top. Wow, they have never had people in the back part of this building before. This show really has grown a lot. Florida Souvenir conch shell lamp somehow ended up in Indiana. That's a pretty good one for the price. The cord's been repaired, but it likely still works. I might try to test it and see. Fiesta ware is colorful in a modernist way, but wattware is colorful in a really sweet country way. And it was so popular 30 years ago, now the prices are less than none, so it's a great time to be a collector. They made tons of jugs and lots of them with roosters, apples, various floral patterns. There is the mark on the bottom. It doesn't always say wattware, but you know from the buff color and the style of the numbers and those rings, even the way USA is made with the flared U, those are indications that it is definitely watt pottery. And they did a lot of really cool stuff, including some things with a background color. I just think it's really neat and a little underrated. There was a reference book about them that you can still find on the aftermarket, and they did casseroles, a lot of advertising pieces, some with stripes, so a lot of variety. It just is really at home in a very cozy retro kitchen. I know there's concerns over the type of plastic they used in this Tupperware, but I really like these tops and they're $4 each, so I'm going to buy them and encourage whoever I sell them to to not use them for food products. Old tripod turned into a lamp. That is another pretty cool reuse that I see people doing. And then a bullet turned into a lamp, an old shell casing. And these folks are vintage hunters who have a YouTube channel now. And for $60, they have this JC Penney sound design digital clock. This was the classic mid-70s digital clock when everybody started to get them. My folks had one too, and they were not cheap then. And one of their specialties is uranium glass, and I like that they're looking beyond the simple pieces. This is Tiffin. Tiffin was elegant depression glass and made really good quality stuff. And look how great those are, and they practically glow outside of a black light. Tiffin's colors really glow brightly. They used a lot of uranium in their mix. Most of the rest of these are depression, except for this. You can easily find a caster bottle to match. That is a caster set from the Victorian era. Oh, my other favorite price piece from the 1970s was the garage. I loved putting the car on the top and rolling it, and it would go around that little track and spit out onto the carpet and then get lost somewhere. And then my neighbor's mom would step on it, and then she'd yell at us and make us go outside to play. Here's some hands-on nests that are real. I like this one with the white head and the blue body. They are so popular now. This is an Indiana glass one. I'm looking for an Amberina one for my periodontist, if you find one with the sheen like this. The success of the keen big-eyed kids led to a plethora of imitations, including this very sad little puppy from the 1960s with the Giges commercial signature. It's nice to see one of these seraca wood ashtray holders with the glass insert so that the bottom isn't burnt. People would lose those, drop them, and then just put the cigarette right in. And you see that it is fitted to it. This is 1930s made of compressed wood. Hopi, Kachina, and Navajo dancing figures are definitely something I look for because I sell them out on the west coast, and I have a pretty big collection in stock now. But right in the middle of all of this is the one I'm interested in because she is not like the others. This is a Seminole doll. You can tell by the rickrack because they had to make their clothes from pieces of fabric they were hiding out in the swamps to avoid being sent to Oklahoma. And if you look at her, she's on the big side. She's made of palm frond as well. She is the original from the tourist era, 1950s I would say, and pretty collectible there. I wonder how much they want. I might have to have her. This Elfin Santa Claus style helper is $75. Good deal. It's fun to me to see these Disney Donald Duck bubble blowers in the original box. You can see him nestled in down there because the top's already a little bit damaged. I'm gonna leave him in there, but that's a pretty good piece from the 50s. Baby Skates, another 1980s doll that is definitely popular with collectors now looking to reassemble their childhood favorites and maybe pass them on to their own children. Although kids these days might not know who Sunny was. Yes, Sunny Bono, Cher's husband. You mentioned Cher. A few more people will know who that is. They did dolls for both of them back in the day. I just sold a Cosmic Kittle, which are their space critters that weren't made very long for a hundred and some dollars, but they've got a lot of the good little Kittles dolls that were the main part of the line. All these little locket-sized dolls. You could buy them in perfume bottles. You could wear them as jewelry. You could buy them with their barbecue, and that is worth the money they have on it because it has the barbecue. One has a gyrocopter. There's one of the locket versions. Very popular in the late 60s and early 70s, and definitely popular with collectors now. Oh, I had a little metal locker when I was a kid with all my keepsakes that was slathered in wacky packages. Just loved them. Topps, the company that made baseball cards, realized there was a little bit of anti-corporate sentiment and that kids were hearing it from their parents in the 1970s, so they thought it would be really fun to make parodies of popular products that kids would recognize, and it was a big success. Everybody in school had these, traded them around. You can sometimes find full uncut sheets that were never distributed. Those sell for over a hundred dollars, but the individual stickers, like Weez-It, really usually only sell for three, four, or five dollars each. I still think they're a lot of fun, and I still have this same silly sense of humor. Fang was one of my favorites. No one realized when Star Trek came into syndication in the 70s that it was going to take off in a way that it didn't when it was a new show on television, and so these dolls are pretty expensive even though they were cheap at the time. A lot of good old barn finds in terms of signs and advertising, and these are real. The Gulf is priced over a thousand as it should be because it's really big. John Deere, a very popular collectible in this area. Even old coffee tins are pretty valuable if they're in good condition. This one is from the 1920s. It's a larger size, and they're asking thirty, which is a very fair price for it. Another sign for the outboard motor enthusiast, Mercury Outboards, just like the flyer that we saw, and actually the same price, which is a pretty good deal for this sign. Oh yes, a coin dealer, and I would be tempted to stop except that they are getting close to the end of the show, and I really want to get into the last building. So I'm going to resist the urge this time, but I'll remember they're here next time. These are new shelves, but I like the way they're done. They have an old look. And here we go up to the 4-H Hall. This is the last building with antique dealers inside. The show ends in about 10 minutes, and there is still a good crowd here. The Hager ashtray with the dark center. That is a classic 1970s color combination. I always find something reasonable in these folks' space, and this piece of jewelry is interesting to me because it's very modernist in a brutalist way, and people are starting to like that in jewelry for the first time. And this one is signed Coro for eight dollars. I'm going to go ahead and get that. It's a little dog-eared, but look how sweet this train case is. You could have put a hat in that to carry with you, or maybe an overnight change of clothes back in the 1920s. Love the exotic bird. That's just wonderful. By the late 60s, you might have taken this purse instead. I don't know who did the shell encrusting. I don't know if they took a production purse and did it themselves, but it looks to me like it's actually a factory effect. I really like that piece. Wow, this is a deal. Look at this long skinny mirror. This just has the look of being a little nicer. The beveling in the glass. It's something that would fit in a very narrow space in a doorway. And wow, am I seeing that price right? Fifteen dollars. Let's see if we can tell who made it. It was, oh, made for JC Penney's in the 1970s. Just can't pass that up. It's a good piece of Hollywood Regency style for a very inexpensive deal. One more tray of jewelry here. I really like this because it's big. Their price is very fair for what it is. It'd be nice to put a scarf through or something like that. Maybe wear even as a buckle with a fabric belt. A good late 1960s era design. All right, I promised you a haul and here it is. I did go ahead and get that mirror. Fifteen dollars was just irresistible. Hello everybody. And yeah, it's such an interesting shape that can fit into a very small space next to a door. I think someone's going to love that. I bought this from Beth and it is a good artist and a recognizable piece that should do well for me where I'm going to take it. The cabinet, I paid $75 and I didn't think that was bad because it had all the contents. And the purse, he gave it to me for $50. I wouldn't have paid a dime more, but I'm happy with it for that price because I think it's just beautiful from the 1910s. This was three dollars. I can easily put nine on that and sell it because a lot of people are collecting World's Fair, especially where I sell in Kentucky. The Coro pin for eight, I expect to triple that price. That was a nice deal and very kind of them. And I like the way that it looks, especially now that I see it on a neutral background. Two dollars for the flashlight. I usually get 10 or 12, so that was great. This is a gift for Zeno. This was only five dollars. I should be able to sell it for around $20. This was $10. I should be able to sell it for around $30. So the prices were really good. I'll probably get $25 for the Railroad playing cards because they're Railroad. I got the Seminole doll for $15. She should sell for $45 in Florida because she's a larger size. So that was a great pickup. Just like the lids on this Tupperware and for four dollars each, I figure I can put 10 or 12 on them. The Colport figurine was five, so was the little Henri carved piece and the big Italian carved piece. And I just think those are terrific prices. In fact, I'm going to put the Colport on eBay right away along with the McCoy piece because I think the fact that it's signed by the founder of the company and his wife makes it really interesting in some way to somebody. There's the sesquicentennial mark on the front and there are their signatures in pencil on the bottom dated March of 1998. So it's been a while. And then the space loom and the cocktail shaker were just fun. So I paid about $250 for about $700 worth of stuff. If you enjoyed this video, check out this one. Also click thumbs up to like this video and check the description for information about our Patreon, our memberships. 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