This Antique Mall Just Kept Getting Better

To the right of the silos that say Antiques is the Antiques Market of Williamston, Michigan. My friend Dave says this is a great place to shop. He's getting ahead of me there. Wow, I heard this was a really good mall, and look at those lamps. These are things you don't see very often anymore from the 1950s. They may be by Majestic Lighting. I'm not sure who did the chalkware base necessarily, but the shades, the condition, the colors, they are quintessential In the 50s and 60s, we saw shields used as corporate logos, very similar to what's happening now in sports, for example. These are 1961, and they were given by Ford Motor Company as premiums, showing all models from various years leading up to that year, and these are really pretty collectible. Another cool car thing, and something that you could use functionally as 175. I'm more used to seeing these dinette sets in Florida from the 1970s. This one's very cute and in really great condition, and the upholstery is good, which is important on these. Dr. Pepper has kept this place in the market, but hires you hardly ever see anymore, and they had some other cool signs here as well. Dr. Seuss's college friend from Dartmouth had him design these trays for Narragansett beer. Gangway for Gansett. That's Chief Gansett, and yes, you see Dr. Seuss's label and the trademark cat in the lower corner there. This is another really hard to find collectible. You folks in Rhode Island may remember this beer. They're asking $3.75. Sanded to the original navy prophylactic, but not the only one. This dates to about 1980, when I first was learning to ski, and this is a hard thing to find again. $175 for this meter that helps you tell based on temperature what kind of snow you're going to have on the slopes that day. Nice bunch of tile sewing machines here. Some are more complex than others. Most of these have a flat body, but people in the late Victorian era would actually use these because real sewing machines were too expensive for them. Some read to think these are rare. Some to write these are common, and some to talk. These form the great majority. $195. There's a treasure craft sprite on the box, and another sitting one, and some other elves from other companies. I'm gonna have to look in this case too. Before Schmidt beer was animal beer, it was the beer of George Washington. Canco made this around 1950, and with the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence very soon, they're asking $50. And a dealer showroom plaque for a 67 Oldsmobile. My dad had that car. It was plush and comfortable and extremely unreliable. 125 years ago, $10 in soap and toiletry orders from the Larkin Soap Company would get you this desk made of oak. Larkin Soap and these desks ended up being distributed across the country. They're only asking $158. That's a good price for this piece. $16 on the McCoy Pink base from the 40s is really a good deal, but you'd have to use a lot of elbow grease, CLR, and maybe steel wool perhaps to get the calcification off. Then you'd have a $35 item. Cool sorter there in the back, a nice corner shell, the blue luggage, all things that people are buying these days. But I really like these cats because these remind me of the ones my mom put in my room when I was very little. Below is a cool Art Deco pink overhead light fixture. You can get the chains to hold those now, so they're useful again. Old Michigan houses had a place to dump coal that went down a chute to the basement, and then you would shovel some into a coal scuttle like this, and that way you would have it by your heater or fireplace. And this one is a really cool architectural laundry decaf burn. Usually they were wood and very basic, but this one would have been for a very fancy Beaux-Arts home around 1900 or so. These are only a buck a piece. I thought, boy, that's... Oh, well, the prices are good then. Yeah, at a buck a piece, probably could sell some of those. These old free labels would be printed in massive amounts because they never knew how big the crop would be. Dave was an art teacher and got into this business because he loved the graphics, and that's what attracted him to antique advertising, so these are right up his alley, and I like the regional interest ones. Retief, that's a good one. That one I might re... I think I sold this one before. Or trunk, that's pretty neat. Oh, I think I'll take one of these because it's got the mountain goat. Yeah, those look pretty neat. Yeah, there's another one if you want to take one. Yeah, those are kind of nifty. Yeah, those are really pretty good, actually. Yeah, they're gonna take all of us. I was just gonna say, if I were you, I would, because double-meaning helps, too. Plenty color. Oh, that's Wapato. Yeah, I think that would be all right. Yeah, you don't see too much stuff with Columbia on it. No, she's pretty good. Actually, yeah. Yeah, with the cards on it, yeah, that's pretty good. Pilgrim Glass did a lot of Cranberry, too. It wasn't just Fenton, so the Fenton piece in the right corner is identifiable as theirs from the foot, but this one is actually a Pilgrim Glass piece that they did in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s with the clear glass neck. That's a nice piece, kind of elegant. And up here, oh, a beautiful purse. I love these mesh purses from the 1920s, and that one is priced just $65, but there's a little bit of paint loss, unfortunately, and fringe loss, so that'll have to stay. This one's in better shape. These were made in Germany, I believe, with this multicolor, but it is missing one of the chains as well. Nice brass piece from Japan with the stippling with the mountains, and there's fish and elephants. It's got pretty much all the motifs, which tells us it's 20th century. The prices are high, but they've got great stuff in this case. The fairy lamps in the $195 to $235 range, and the Holt Howard. The mustard and olives are two of the better ones to get, but wow, their prices are up there. And I love the alligator salt and peppers. Abraham Palatnik from Brazil designed these acrylic figures with the geometry in them, and they are big money now. Hands on this are so hot now that even though these are small, they're old enough that I think we're going to wipe out this entire shelf full. What a great selection there is. More fun Holt Howard here. All of the Christmas stuff. Just love their Santa faces, and especially the big pitcher in the back. That one's hard to find. The red paint was cold paint, so it did wear off if they were washed with Windex or scrubbed too hard. So the condition really matters where the prices are concerned on these pieces. Oh, it's too bad the van is so full because I'm headed to a show. I have a friend in Florida who wants that child set just like that with the red chair and the red little table. There's a lot of cool things in this space. House restorers, furniture restorers, there's lots of people who need things like this, and very smart if you have the room and a space to carry this sort of thing if you come into a lot of it because you'll sell a little bit at a time all year long as people are doing various projects and need the old stuff. Look at all of the notters. Most of these are some sort of composition material from the late 50s, early 60s. They are all sports teams. These are some of the very most collectible and you'll see prices as high as $200 and $300 on some of the scarcer ones. Some of the mascots are really fun and some are politically incorrect now. It's an engraving machine. Oh, I see because there's your dies there, yeah. Wow, that's pretty neat. Michigan was such a major industrial state that you'll see cool old early 20th century apparatus like this. I'm sure some robot does the same thing with the button now, but it's really cool and it would still work. This is a hunting trophy, $89, shaped like a bullet. It's lucite with a flying goose in it. That's a different kind of Nankate item. Oh wow, one of the very first football helmets. Well, he's got all the price I've had, doesn't he? Yeah, but it's probably about as old as those go. Huh, I haven't seen this V-23 before. That's interesting. It was counter height for small places and you put the money in and turn the dial and you could get one of 23 bottles of 8 ounce coca-cola out of it. And this one looks like it's been fully restored. You see the price, it has a cult following amongst coca-cola collectors and it's in just amazing shape. I love old cars so being in Michigan is great because you see lots of dealer manuals and things like this for the forward look swept wing 57 Dodge or the Dodge Polaro from the 1960s. These were the cars that were on the road when I was very little and they seem like giant behemoths just like they did when I was a kid. They're so different from the way vehicles are now and they're fascinating to me and to a lot of other enthusiasts. Car enthusiasts seem to bridge the years, at least with appreciation for these kinds of things. This was likely made in the United States but maybe by an European emigre. A lot of people who moved here brought these skills of wood carving over from Central Europe and made things like this. This is a really interesting variant of a coat tree with an umbrella stand and $3.95 for something that's as singular as this I think is a really good deal. There isn't another like it. Hall China and Porcelier made Art Deco style products for Enterprise Aluminum which made the Drip-O-Later. This is the often missing aluminum insert that went in these originally. It is a fun pattern, very deco and reminiscent of Hall's Kerbos of the same era. Four barthcloth panels and they are $72. Well, that's worth checking to see because if they're in good condition and there's enough of it, that's actually a good price. They have been cut down though. These are remnants and uh yeah they used to be draperies. It would be nice if the whole drapery was there. A lot of times they were on patio doors and if they leaked this stuff would get stained so this is what we get. My mom's first job was in Battle Creek at Jacobson's when she was rather young, still in high school I believe. I'm not usually shopping in this area. Indian River is a place I shop more often. Over here we have, oh yes, a Redwing vase. You can tell by the two colors. That was popular with them in the 40s. This is another neat car culture thing. This is from the Detroit Dragway and people were drag racing hard top sedans at that time in the mid-60s. Nice 1950s chenille rug shaped as a pig. These are really cool. I like the old painted ties. This was the sort of thing you wore if you were a little dashing in the 1950s and oh that one came out of Vancouver, Canada. Wonder how it ended up here. Wow, good price. You know, not many people wear ties now but these old novelty ones are really fun as decoration. I've seen people make quilts and things out of ties. You know, there are other reuses for these and this one is related to the plumbing profession. By the 1960s in California there was a thriving textile industry still and so we see these pieces from that era in really interesting designs. Ah yes, the ubiquitous penguin hot cold kefir. I just got one myself. I think they're great and so does everyone who collects them. I see these stands a lot as well. I think at that time they were worth about 600. Yeah, I mean that sounds like that's pretty good price for those but are they signed? Well, it's a signature but I'm not sure if it's a real signature or a printed signature. I think you'd have to get them out and look with the magnifier. But at that price and with comps high, yeah, I would say it probably is real. Now this piece looks deco revival to me because it's very glossed over and even. It's not channeled layers like I would expect in 1930s jewelry. So I think you're looking at a 1980s piece there for 38. I have always liked these icers. You can use them for shrimp cocktail or cottage cheese or yogurt or any number of things. They have a glass liner. They were done in the 60s. They have a rather elegant goblet shape. I think they were made by some production house like Libby but they're cool and I've used mine a lot actually. Okay, yeah, I've got to get these guys. The one on the left is supposed to swing on a planter but that's the thing that is usually broken and missing and I find the trees without him. So I can fix that and the other one is a treasure craft made these in the 50s. This is loud, loud, loud and eight dollars. This which I've seen a million times I've never seen in black and white. Royal Oakley. Look at this bar. I would own this. Hayward Wayfield. Think of the detail. That's a great set. I look for coral necklaces like the one on the left now that they're really not harvesting that anymore. It's hard to imagine anyone wearing this apron then or now and because of that this black memorabilia piece from the 1950s is mint and these are actually really hard to find so they do have value to the collectors. As vintage hair combs go, you see this spoke tortoise shell the most. This one with the black is a little more high contrast and would be a little more valuable the way it's outlined and the $25 price they have for this size is right in the ballpark of where they should be. Colors, rhinestones, go for more. Once in a while bolts of vintage fabric turn up at thrift stores and you can find some really great stuff and see the price. It is definitely worth picking up things if they're dated like this. I see a lot of fraternal items here and this one's only $9.50 and I think I'll take it. It's for independent order of foresters and it's a flag that they would use in a memorial procession. Probably 1950s or 60s I'm guessing from the construction but an interesting fraternal thing cheap. Edward Curtis and his brother were famous west coast photographers and this one shows a Nootka man. There are various northwest tribal members here. He was taking these pictures around the early 1900s and there was a compendium released in the 1970s that was very popular with these reprints. That's Princess Angeline in Seattle, Chief Seattle's daughter. She was not a fan of the settlers. She lived in a very small house just north of the downtown and watched it into a major American city. These prints are selling for about $45 each. There is a lot of interest in Native American moccasins. Here we see for $2.95 a fur line set from a northern tribe probably in the northwest. These appear to be Chippewa which are from this region with the beading. Notice the different construction with the leather skin. This place has a high-end antique dealer base and because of that they're willing to be identified on the placards you see there. This has a really cool look. Lots of things that you could use for vintage decor. Over here lots of pictures and prints and I like the coffee pots made into lamps around 1970. Antique decoys really became popular to collect in the 1970s so by the 80s a lot of artists were doing new versions. And this huge canvas back is by a rather noteworthy artist. Some of these editions are going for a big number like the antique ones. This one is $500. $125 that is Admiral Dewey's battleship the Olympia the part of the great light fleet in the Spanish-American war and shortly thereafter. Speaking of shortly thereafter, William McKinley. Here's a little interesting information there. We're in Ohio elected to Congress in the controversial year of 1876. We elected seven times, then became governor of Ohio, then president of the United States. Shot September 6, died September 14. Not of the gunshot wound. He was actually shot at a temple in Music and died in this place because of sepsis. Because when they took the bullet out they infected him so it was actually the doctors that killed him rather than the assassin. I love these old brush holders with the dogs. Sometimes it's the dog house and the dog's head is on the front. This one the dog and the dog house are on the bottom. And it's the brush that's in here. It's very cute. $25. Not bad that's from the 30s. There goes that piece of furniture. Coirup of Denmark made this really fun lamp. I've had it a few times. All interlocking panels. Very basic waxed cardboard really. But what a great look. $150. They have some really cool lighting in here. Look at this old parlor lamp from Victorian times at $240. It's been wired and this one is Art Nouveau. Looks like a European ceramic here. Possibly Belgium in fact. Lots of visual delights in this place. These sconces are Morgantown. $56 for the pair is probably right in the red color which is hard to find. They need slightly flickery candles. The frogs are McCoy. They're not marked but they're brush McCoy. And I really like this owl tricky jar. That's such a great face. I really like the mesh and beaded purses. This one is rather plain in just the silver. The Victorians started to learn about medieval mesh and that's when this became a fashion and they do sell for about $60. From my childhood Ronald McDonald cookie cutter. I like metal pieces. Door stops, bookends. Abraham Lincoln sells well for me in Illinois of course because he's from there. The basket is likely to be Hubley from the 20s. I like the end of the trail bookends. These are a classic with the copper toning but they were made in cast iron. We see this triangle C mark in the 1920s and 30s. The average pleasure boat did not have comfy seats in the 1960s so you got these cushions and this one tells you exactly how you're supposed to navigate through the waters which is handy. This will date to about 1965. They have $35 on this. Airy 782. That is very heavy. This would have likely been on top of podium at the commander's desk in the federation of eagles. The first eagles lodge was in Seattle as a matter of fact. Boyd made these Debbie ducks in the 1980s and 90s and I will take all the ones that are in good colors at these prices. These are cheap. By the late 1950s a lot of states were not doing new license plates every year. They were just doing new numbers for the dates and these old date numbers are collectible for people who want to have the right year on their classic car. Now these were meant for Michigan plates but any state that had blue and white or blue on silver or various colors through the years you could use it interchangeably. If you live in a state that requires front and back plates you'll need a pair. To my mind the Czech glass perfumes are the most beautiful that were made and these are great examples from the 1930s in the blue here and then to the right we have the malachite. These were by the Slevo factory in Czechoslovakia and very popular in the art deco period and very expensive now. We're in farm country and the realism of this pig with her piglets is the reason that this piece by Arnold is selling for $7.99. There is a real interest in agricultural art. It has an official plaque from 1956 but this little post office was officially a U.S. post office for a very very small town with about 36 different boxes and a general delivery window. This would have been part of a general store. We see pieces like this around 2000. Victorians were cat lovers too and a yard of cats was a very popular print in the yard-long series of prints made in France around 1900. This one is priced at $97.50 and a couple of those cats are being very naughty. President Eisenhower's interest in paint by numbers led to a craze in the United States in the mid to late 50s. This one is a line called American Heritage by Craftmaster, as you see here, $30 each. Owens Illinois decided to join the depression glass makers in doing canister sets around 1940 and these interesting ribbed diagonal patterns are rather attractive and easy to hold on to when you're working in the kitchen. These are a line that are pretty much unique to themselves because they didn't make a lot of other tableware like this, but the color is really rich. There's their logo on the bottom. Very fairly priced at $2.25 for the set of 10 canisters. In a recent video someone pointed out that a Fisher Price piece I showed did not have the right people. Well you can get your replacements here for $4 each. If you have a little kid for $325 you could probably delight them for a long time with this now vintage spring-mounted shaking duck. These bobbled around in playgrounds of my era and now could be on a porch or a backyard at your home. This one's a Whiting and Davis but this sort of abstract patterning in these colors was widely copied by German mesh bag makers in the 30s as well. Also in the $95 range is this 1940s Venetian glass tray. Very pretty. It's really nice to see a bracelet set from the 1940s. Those are all pavé stones, not prong set. You could pull apart the two sides of the pin and turn them into dress clips and then have a three-piece set. $2.50 for that. If you look to the left and center you see what a 1940s pair of dress clips by themselves would have looked like together. Interesting to see a good cane collection together. There's a couple of thousand canes. Does he really? Well he's got an eight million dollar collection. Unbelievable. I wish this was in better shape. This alligator for $55 I would have gotten that one. On that big hand-carved thing? This one with the actual alligator. I mean it's it's a real caiman or alligator on it but it's not in very good condition. There's a bunch of world's fair in here but I haven't seen this card. This is the one where they're sending postcards out to get people to vote for sponsoring the exposition because they had to get a certain amount of local support or else they couldn't get the world's fair. This 1930s composition red cross doll has crazy eyes but a great outfit for $55. Mom never let me have the cool satanic mask for Halloween. I think she thought that was too much. These look like 1960s or 70s bottle stoppers before they had replaceable screw caps and wow those are cool. And I love the glasses for $18. I think I'll get them all. These tip trays are pretty neat. My friend Dave already bought one out of here. He's very picky about condition. The cotylene is an interesting product because that was essentially a form of cotton seed oil that was pretty toxic to people. We were really not meant to ingest that sort of thing. I see prices from the $50 to $100 range and that's pretty fair for this particular group of these. My mom looked for Chen Yu jewelry and compacts for her entire collecting life and never found one and here is one sitting in front of me in this mall. Amazing. It looked forever. I really like the original elephant. Just that gate, the flowers, and the hair. It's very 1970s. Next to a 1970s plaque for Rococo figurines by Goebel. A rather obscure line of theirs during their heyday. I believe these are later Rio Hondo. You can tell by the eyes. All hand painted in California. Very cute. And over here Carlton wear in this foxglove pattern. Now I just sold the basket version of that bowl for about $60 so I think these prices are great. And then this is a really cool piece here. An 1880s railroad press glass plate that has been trimmed out in paint. A fair number of pieces of bohemian cut crystal like this in these traditional patterns are done with ruby flashed glass where they actually flash a very thin red layer over and then carve through it as opposed to just staining the glass. I really like this set with the tower and the stag. The bottle here with the cordials is something people use a little more often in this 20th century but these pieces have been being made since the 19th century and you see there are other colors as well. Pretty stuff. Prices in the $250 to $350 range for these armor bronze pirate bookends are not unusual to see. They are a great set from the 1930s. I'm seeing this because I'm in Michigan but I actually have customers for this out in Oregon who were Oregon State alum. Broom is a signature worth looking for on enamelware. On the left is a cardinal by Norman Broom in a leaf pattern. That's unusual. You generally see things shaped rather like the moorcroft piece you see on the right. Both of those prices on the broom piece and the moorcroft pottery piece are pretty fair for what they are. Fun in all states. Legal in some. Airline bottles that are full are not legal to possess in certain states and you have to actually pour out the contents if you're going to ship them. I love this very sinister looking 1930s valentine and you might have noticed a lot of 1968 Detroit Tiger Championship collectibles in these malls along with Hi-Yo Silver. These big metal sit-on-top trains were very popular in the 40s and 50s as little scoot arounds for toddlers. This one is red which is unusual. We generally see them in black and it's only $95. I've sold the more common black ones for more. This pair of Cheyenne moccasins have a very distinct beading pattern that's different than the ones that we saw before. They're in nice condition as well. This dealer has a number of Native American and ethnic pieces in. This one is actually from Southeast Asia and is the type of thing we saw a lot of people bring back from being stationed to the Vietnam War that are coming onto the market now. Speaking of the Detroit Tigers Championship teams, well Al Kaline was one of their most popular players. The first Detroit Tiger to have his jersey retired and a member of the Hall of Fame. I really like this tin litho doll furniture and those smaller pieces at $5 each are a really good deal with the patterning. I think I should pick some of those up. And then, well, Detroit was champions more than one time in baseball. There's the 1934 program, hard to find. From the same era is Stark's ball gun which was, I guess, the predecessor of the Nerf ball where you shot little balls at people instead of caps out of cap guns like the Texan Junior with its original box. This beautiful cameo glass piece is from the early 1900s. Love the colors. It was designed by Richard for one of the Paris salons that was important at that time. Richard had been a Lotz glass designer and they're asking $8.95. It's really a gorgeous piece and worth the money. New old stock kids toys are so fun just for the graphics, even if they're modest things like the Worcester Ware set of canisters for Dolly. I am really fond of Czech spatter glass. The colors are great. It looks so good with a lot of the mid-century glass people are collecting now. And I especially like the fan base in the yellow and orange. Usually this opaline yellow does not fluoresce under a black light, but there's a chance it could. $2.95 for this great old wooden toy, the road and train transporter. That should date from about 1910. Not long after that you would have had toy trucks instead of horse-drawn wagons. The NHL was in a real hurry to expand in the mid-70s so they put a team in Atlanta. It did not work. It moved to Calgary. These old pennants are from that time in the mid-70s. These Royal Howdah pieces are just beautiful. I had a huge collection I sold several years ago and I'm pretty much out. And boy, the prices, when you look at the amount of handwork and beauty and the shapes, they seem really reasonable to me. All of these are under a hundred dollars. However, they did make a lot of this and send it all over the world because it was very popular in the 1920s or so. This is second generation of their designs. With summer coming, these water coolers are starting to sell again. I like this one with the two-gallon crown mark and the metal spigot, so we know it has age. They're asking $2.95. The top vehicle is just over-restored, in my opinion. I prefer the ones that have been left alone like these, where they look the way they did after being played with, oxidizing from age. These are still all really clean and in great condition. Ad clocks are where the money and clocks is right now, especially regional stuff like Werner's ginger ale out of Detroit. $4.85. I keep looking for better ways to display paper ephemera and this spellbound for nylons, this display rack, seems like it could be a good useful piece from the 50s and the price is under $100. That is tempting. This country pie crust frame is another display case from a similar time. It's a little more money because it's glass front. And then look at this really cute lithograph of the children playing the music, playing with the puppies and the kittens. Wonderful original frame for $95. Straight from a horrid traveling show is this wonderful eyeball made of ceramic with a mirror in it. This is going to date to sometime in the early 1900s, and you can see that it's made of pretty durable ceramic material. It was set in something and had to be removed, so it shows the scars of life. Yes, at first these were called surfboards too. They were surfboards for inlanders, but we know them as skateboards. 15 toes was one from the late 60s or early 70s by Nash during the first skateboarding craze. Then you see it was still called a surfboard. And this is wood with the old metal trex. This is going to date to probably 1960s and it's $95. Rinky Dink surfboard from the same era, a little bit more expensive. My first skateboard was a Nash, but it was fiberglass and that was in the late 70s and early 80s. Well, this was pretty fun. We had a good time at the Antique Mall of Williamston. It is really great and there's a lot more to see than I had time for, so we'll have to come back here. 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. We've got a lot of different levels with different perks and bonus videos and early content. 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