PONTIAC What treasures are hiding inside a forgotten warehouse packed floor to ceiling with antiques, vintage finds, and decades of auction and estate sale remains? We're the first outsiders ever invited inside to find out.
We're in Pontiac, Michigan, where a longtime reselling duo opens the doors to a massive storehouse filled with furniture, lamps, books, records, glass, china, ceramics, and countless surprises collected over decades. Armed with headlamps and plenty of curiosity, we search through towering piles, unopened boxes, and tangled stacks in hopes of uncovering something special. Along the way, we discover original 1970s platform shoes, vintage vinyl, Alaskana, Kentucky Derby collectibles, beautiful Georges Briard and Imperial glass, and many other forgotten treasures waiting to see daylight again.
The big pieces are just as tempting. A 1910s Red Wing umbrella stand, a 1920s wagon, porcelain lamps, a Chrysler-Maserati convertible top, even a GE Monitor Top refrigerator compete for our attention as we decide what deserves a second chance. Some treasures are too big to take today, but a golden cherub tazza, a fern stand, and a fabulous 1950s turquoise bench make the cut. From old bottles and fire helmets to elegant china and charming kitty-cat chopstick holders, every corner offers another surprise.
By the end of the day, boxes of forgotten history come home with us, ready to be cleaned, researched, and matched with new owners who will appreciate them for years to come. Opportunities like this are scarce, and we're grateful to the gentlemen who make it possible. If this hidden warehouse still has more secrets to reveal, we hope to return and keep digging!
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We're getting ready to go spelunking in a warehouse that has no heat and no
lights, but a lot of antiques and vintage. So let's go.
I've done 49 clean house, mostly over on the East side of Michigan or,
you know, Sterling Heights and Warren. It's overwhelming. So come on.
Yeah. You've got some stuff.
Yep. My father was an auctioneer.
Everything that didn't sell at an auction came here and then I've made the
warehouse even worse.
Well, I have a storehouse. It's not this size,
but I understand exactly your plight. Oh, nice piece of teak there.
There's a lot of, there's some teak in here. It's a nice set.
You're going to hurt yourself in this place. It'll be on these steps. Okay.
This is the only place you got to really be careful. Very good. Well,
there's actually more light than I expected from the description.
So this is great.
Then we'll take you down to the furniture in a minute. Okay. Okay. Sounds good.
My crazy side business back in the day was hubcaps.
I was just going to say I used to collect hubcaps when I was a kid. This,
well, the volume you've got me beat on, but yeah,
nice old oak throne chair.
That looks like something that might've been in a Masonic hall or something.
Church or in a church. Yeah. That's cool. Oh yeah.
You said you had some glass in China and you sure do see some elegant
depression. Stangle.
Just like that new people are getting interested in this stuff because we need
them to. Yeah. It's great. Helps towards it. Yeah.
It's sort of the perfect storm of people are afraid of prices going up.
So they're looking at old stuff. And so I'm a,
this was a way it used to be until I did that one clean out with all the chairs
and then invest everything. That's a really cool milking stand.
Yeah. That's neat. Yeah.
Some books in there. Old Strauss boxes.
They pretty cool carriage. 1930s. Yeah.
Maybe twenties. Great style. The pinstriping. Yeah.
Somebody did a good job on that. Those wheels will be,
they're almost always chewed. That's mother. Yep.
Hey there. And here we are recording each other. Hello there.
This is digging with deeds. You see her in the chat.
She has a YouTube channel of her own. You should follow it.
All kinds of treasure. That's great. It's free. Yes, absolutely. Well, that's great.
It's great to see you. And show me the ropes here.
Very fine and cheap. Ah, okay.
We potty vintage furniture, much glass,
ceramics, China, China, and mixed art form.
Any of it could be art.
There are no rats occupying the building today. Yeah, that's great.
It looks really surprisingly clean so far.
Well, we get to dig for treasure today.
I'm glad you set your standards.
All right. We're going to turn on the headlamp and get started here.
Martini mixer. Oh, nurse.
Okay, that's just wrong. I have to have that.
There's the one with the cork. Yeah, we'll take that.
I haven't seen this one before. That's great.
Barware tacky and perfect from the fifties.
They have been doing this a long time, so there's going to be a lot of stuff in here.
Kentucky pistol.
There is a set of those.
I'd be interested for my Kentucky spaces books in here.
They have got the stuff.
Oh, and looky there. It's the lid for a Gilner elf.
Oh, no, it's a wall pocket.
Ah, his head is chipped.
That's too bad because that's a pretty good piece, actually.
Seventy five cents. That's probably what it costs a new.
Oh, and it's actually Pixie Potters.
They were the very first ones to do these elves back in the 1940s.
Darn, that would be a great piece if it was in just a little better shape.
And I know you could touch it up, but I don't want to mislead somebody.
So we'll leave that.
Or a dog head.
Yeah, this place is an old time, long term pile.
So anything can be anywhere, which makes it exciting.
But it also means we're going to have some dirty dig.
I'll give you orchard ladders or something that sell well.
And they've got a pile under here.
I see one sign that looks like it's just a local realty sign.
I did set aside a newspaper box.
Ah, that's cute up there.
It's a little hobby horse.
I mean, they've got wicker, they've got lumber,
they've got chairs hanging from the ceilings.
This place is definitely maxed out.
Oh, wow.
This is probably a really neat sign under here.
Let's see if we can see what it looks like.
I'm thinking it's, well, it's something express.
So hopefully this is light enough to move.
Welcome to the Pontiac Press.
Oh, OK, yeah, this had something to do with the local paper.
And this was their office.
So this probably came off the building.
Another cute baby carriage.
Wow. These big laundry bins.
These are something that sell pretty well.
Old trunk, some sort of 80s looking painting there.
This is the hard top that you could take off of a Chrysler
Maserati when they had that combination around 1990
and Maserati made a model for Chrysler.
I'm sure that's worth some money.
And there's the logo right in the middle.
But for me, it's these piles of milk crates that I'm headed towards
because this seems to be where they have a lot of the smalls.
And I see something that looks like Red Wing Pottery.
I see some interesting glasses up there.
So we're going to carefully
unstack and restack some of these.
It's hard to know when there's so much stuff.
Where do you start?
Well, it's a glass, but I have a lot of glass.
So unless it's something really interesting,
I am going to be looking for other things today.
We've got a lot of miscellaneous stuff.
OK, here's a bunch of dinnerware.
The hobby horse is cute.
This is what happens when you store stuff for years.
Ooh, they paid a whole dollar.
Blue Ridge Pottery here.
All righty, some sort of the...
Oh, this is wattware.
Nice bowl.
Oh, is that the lid?
Well, thank you.
Yes, prowling and discovering is the point I think we're at
because you've got some stuff.
So I will do that.
Yes, this is how things are found sometimes.
This is in perfect shape.
I believe it is an Esko and it is 60s and it's got the spoon.
So we'll put that in this box and in the bottom of the box.
I noticed this little costume jewelry pin.
It's a palette.
That's kind of cute.
It may be missing a stone, but I don't think it'll be much money
and we'll have that replaced.
And the box itself is useful.
So we're getting started.
I like the little enamel piece here, but it has a chip.
This box here, it looks like we have a copper humidor of some sort.
It's got a little greening.
It could probably be cleaned, but it's pretty basic.
Fun to keep you company and make sure you don't end up like some of the ghosts in there.
I understand.
I absolutely get it.
It's kind of nice to have a buddy when you're spelunking in a place like this.
Shores Breyard.
Oh, now this looks like something potentially interesting in there.
The red one, right?
The red one, yeah.
Hang on, let me help you with that.
Underneath it, it's too dark for me to see, but whatever it is.
It looks like a camera and I'm not sure what else,
but I might take a look at that in a minute too.
Okay, we're going to set this aside.
Okay, great.
Thank you.
Yeah, just right there is good and we can just set it right back.
So you can...
We'll put it in with carburetors for the minute while I go through this box
and we'll see what we have.
I just saw...
That little guy's cute.
That looks like it is Japan, Hollywood Regency style.
Yeah, we'll set that aside.
All right, here, I'll work with you.
I'll just do that.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
This guy looks like he used to have a bowl.
And underneath, Lord's Treasury.
Oh yeah, this is so that you would save up for giving the offering.
Okay, Tootsie Roll Bank.
Down here, we've got an old camera and another old camera,
Polaroid, and it looks like some electrical stuff
and woodworking claims that they look like the basics.
Early American families from Spain.
Hmm, that's interesting with a whole lot of surnames like Nieves and Robles.
I haven't seen that set before.
If there's four of them, I'll probably take them.
That's just an interesting novelty.
I don't know who did these, but that kind of intrigues me.
And since we have a full set, why not?
A very specialized customer, perhaps, but I think they're interesting.
Oh yes, these look like they have various wild animals from the 70s.
Kind of fun.
Those are another pattern I don't recognize.
Hmm, the wild animals are kind of neat, and those are Georges Briard.
We'll take those.
I think I'll get those instead of the early Spanish surnames,
even though those are kind of neat too.
I'm realizing there's a lot in here and I'm between shows,
so car space is somewhat limited.
I'm gonna have to be a little selective.
Gall jars and canning jars, and some of those can be good,
but they look like they're the standard type.
Violet pattern of dinnerware.
I grew up in this world, so it's not awkward for me when I use it.
This box is Stangle again, and I do like the teapot.
And when I look at it, I don't recognize the pattern.
It's similar, it's Redware, but it's actually marked Deltaware.
Also made in the U.S., and obviously taking on the Stangle design,
or knocking them off.
But they did it well.
This would clean up nicely.
Now, when you're looking at stuff that sat for a long time,
of course, you got to make sure these are not permanent stains,
and we wipe that and it comes out, so that'll clean up, and that's a cute one.
The orange pictures seem to be popular now.
We'll take that.
Ah, now these are awesome, and they're vintage.
And yes, they've been here a while, so this is curled up.
They might take a little bit of gluing, but these are size 8 platforms from the day,
and they're clean enough and will clean up, and I see more in there.
So we're gonna go through and see if there's any more of these that we can take,
because these are classic out of the 70s.
That one's a little too stained.
These, yeah, the bottoms, I don't think that'll clean, because that's soaked in.
That's too bad, because those are cute.
But these 70s era shoes are definitely popular with a certain set of fashionistas,
and I think we can do something with some of these.
I like that with the open work.
Again, we're gonna have to do some work to fix the insoles,
but that is actually not as hard as it might seem.
Oh, these are all right with the little buttons.
Yes, yeah, I think we like some of these.
Oh, okay, yeah, these are new old stock.
They haven't been kept well, but they've got the original cards in them
to keep the form in the shoe, which it sort of did.
Cute little gold table on its side there.
They told me that most of the records are not rock era,
so I probably won't spend a lot of time on those,
but somebody should come in here who knows other styles of music and take a look at those.
In here, I'll have to show this to Deej.
I don't know that she'll want that bottle, but she likes bottles,
so we'll see.
This is an old liquor bottle.
That, I don't think, is her style.
If this was any color other than milk glass, I'd probably buy it.
And we have a lot of little post streets here.
Let's see what these are about.
I'm finding butterpats on small plates are selling.
These seem to be European scenes.
It looks like it's a whole set.
Saucers without cups.
An old relish from Bavaria from the 1920s.
Oh, the Mounties.
Well, I do well with Mountie items out west,
and that's kind of cute with the Scottish dancer.
That's Rosina from England.
We're just going to look in the sides.
There's a redware bowl.
You know, this is pretty random stuff, and a lot of it is not up my alley,
but some might be.
These are center spinners from Hubcaps, and some more of those.
And way down on the bottom, I see a box with tollware that's cute,
but not cute enough to dig that far for it.
I may have to get into the bottom of that pile, unfortunately,
but that's all right.
This is why we're here.
This looks like a lot of clear.
That's sort of interesting.
Whole bunch more books.
We'll take a look.
Maybe I think we'll get into some of these piles.
This is dinnerware.
These are some sort of cleaners.
A desk set.
All right, we got down to the bottom of this pile,
which is what I was interested in.
This is one of these things you strap on to walk on ice,
which would be useful here in Michigan.
If they had a pair, that would be interesting.
Little hand-painted box.
That's kind of cute.
Mexico.
A little chipped on the corner, unfortunately.
And these tins, which is what I was after,
are pretty basic.
Prince Albert, M4.
We see those a lot.
SDA, Quaker State Motor Detergent.
If that didn't have a dent, I would take that.
I'm being kind of particular just because I do have a lot of stuff already,
and this place is huge, though.
We have plenty to see.
And then this little jug.
Oh, mercury jugs.
These are pretty collectible.
This one's got a chip.
That's a little bit of a problem,
but I might take it anyway if it's really inexpensive
because they can be $40, $50 or more,
depending on circumstances.
And then this one.
Carter's Two Solution Ink Eradicator.
Ah, to get ink out of things.
Now, this is very greasy, as you can see.
It's getting all over my hands.
I wonder if that could clean.
It seems like that's printed on.
As messy as that is, I think it's interesting.
We'll put it in the maybe pile.
A whole bunch of Miss America plates.
Lunch and dinner sizes.
Some of them are broken.
It's too much weight in there.
These actually can sell, and I haven't seen one in the box before.
There are still some people who really enjoy.
In fact, we have a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer in our collector group,
and he certainly collects photograph-related items,
and I suspect still uses them.
Knox Gelatin.
These are common that it's a cute box,
so I think maybe we'll put that in the pile just to save it.
Sometimes I just feel sorry for stuff when it's
been left behind for a long time like this.
Oh, an owl.
This is one of these.
It's a very, very
fragile bisque porcelain that's not well sealed,
and it's starting to shed its feathers, so we'll leave that.
Ah, the top of the deck is broken,
but that's OK because it got me in here to look at other stuff.
Weldon Roberts erasers, 88 styles.
What is this?
Circular, I assume they're circular little rubber erasers.
Ah, that's what they look like.
Over here we have wooden crutches,
farm implements,
a potato seeder,
shovels and the like,
and then of course more hubcaps.
A Yankee screwdriver in here.
Those are kind of neat.
Well, this one's a good one because it's got everything except the bit.
Oh, I wish that was intact because I like those,
but that would take welding that I don't know how to do.
That is a perpetual calendar that's seen better days.
Pig bank, that's cute from the 50s.
No trap though.
Aluminum toasters.
Well, the trap door may be in the bottom.
Yeah, it may be.
We'll keep digging.
Yeah, I won't assume anything.
I think these are not sterling, but I'm going to hand them to you
so you can look because if they are, you could scrap those easily enough
with the prices the way they are now.
But I think they are not.
They seem shiny.
I'm guessing nickel plate or chrome plate.
I'm thinking you're right.
Painted as long as this has been sitting here.
Yeah, you're right.
It would tarnish out, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Looks like from the 80s, made out of stained glass.
The guy at the desk.
Now a little piece though.
I'm guessing that's folk art.
I don't...
Yeah, I like that.
I'll hand that to you.
I think I would take that.
Thank you.
And let's see here.
We've got some shot glasses, but they're basic.
A tray.
All right.
Down to the next box.
So Veja's gotten started.
That's great.
What'd you find?
Okay.
Me would be...
Oh, nice little head base.
Okay.
What pattern is that?
Candlewick.
Okay.
Yep.
Those are the salt dibs.
Those are good.
Salt.
I got this that I've never seen before, and I'm a bottle collector.
Oh, that's cool.
It's a wine.
It says bin bottle.
Oh, that's interesting.
I don't know that piece.
So it would lay...
I know.
I don't either.
Oh, so it would lay flat.
I don't know.
You might.
People are always looking for the lids.
I've got a stack.
Oh, do you already?
Okay.
I grabbed it just in case you were looking for the lid.
8-Tracks.
Oh my gosh.
The mamas and the papas.
Yep.
The carpenters.
Oh my God, there's a million dollars worth of stuff there.
Well, if you have an old car with an 8-Track player,
I do have people who buy them for exactly that reason,
but I don't need them.
So here, I'll hand them to you and you can pick out what you want to take with you.
I don't want to take a single thing.
We don't want you to leave without your truck being absolutely packed full.
Yeah, well, unfortunately, I came from a show,
so it started pretty getting there on the way.
I'm going to set this aside and use that as another box to carry things in.
We got a toolbox here.
An empty...
The Weyers sisters, they were popular.
Oh yeah, they sure were, actually.
Yep, they were right up there with the Andrews sisters in their time.
They were mainly a studio band.
They did a live gig and they just hated being live,
so they decided, you know what, we can just do studio.
And it worked for them.
Let's see what else we have.
There's a cool looking psychedelic era cover, but not in good shape.
That's too bad, because the cover might sell that piece.
And there actually seem to be a couple of these.
Yep, In Search of the Lost Chord.
I know a lot of Moody Blues fans out there.
Air Force Basic Training and Sound.
Mother Jugs and Speed.
Bill Crosby, Raquel Welch, and Harvey Keitel.
OK, just for that cover, I think I need that one.
Devo.
Are we not men?
Are we wearing flower pots on our head?
We are Devo.
The electric flag the band kept playing.
That's in great shape.
OK, in this box I see some Faustoria American.
It looks like a Royal Dalton character jug, perhaps.
No, I don't think so.
Let's get the Faustoria out, if we can.
There we go.
Oh, that's a newer piece of not real majolica.
And back here, is this uranium glass?
No.
All right, but we'll leave that be.
And it looks like more paper.
I like these.
These look like vacuum cleaner benches,
where there's a vacuum cleaner inside of those blue boxes.
I don't know that I can make room for one of those in the car, but I'm tempted.
All right, so this would have to be cleaned.
Looks clean inside,
and it actually doesn't have any fittings for vacuum cleaners, which is great in a way.
I really think I want one of these, if I can make it fit.
I always like when they use old yardsticks as trim on rather plain shelves.
It's a cool look.
It'd be great for display, but I don't have room for that.
You OK back there?
It looks like a landslide.
I'll get you it.
It just was a landslide.
I will help you get that straightened up.
Are you finding some stuff?
Yeah, I'm finding some things.
Good.
The dial doesn't turn on that.
I don't know if you can fix that or not.
Yeah, when they get stuck...
Oh yeah, now that one's pretty crusty.
That one's crusty.
Slicks are what, where they don't have any...
They don't have any embossing or anything.
Oh yeah, I see.
Yep, a slick.
OK, yeah.
See, Deej really knows her bottles, so if you are into that sort of thing,
it's a great thing to learn from her.
I like the St. Francis.
Lamps are pretty, but I've got a lot of lamps right now.
More hubcaps.
Gold label beer.
River Pilot.
Oh yes, I can remember it is.
Serve a snack set.
These snack sets, unless they're particular ones like colors and swirl,
they don't really sell very well, unfortunately.
I like this old McDonald's fiberglass 1960s crate.
But they are using their crates for lots of glass.
I see some etched patterns in there.
Pepsi bottles.
I like the bridge lamps.
That's a Hanson chest.
On the feet from the 1920s.
Yeah, these were dry in an office chair.
I was selling these really well, and they kind of slowed down.
I've got furniture that's 115 years old that's still serviceable as it is.
Yes.
And with a little restoration, it'll be a showpiece in your home.
I caught on to this when I was in college.
I realized if I bought something nice that was old and it was good,
I would keep it forever, which I have, and I wouldn't have to buy it over and over.
Oh yeah, that's cool.
Dollhouse with furniture.
That is neat.
Cool, she's finding some good stuff.
I like this pottery piece.
You don't know who makes it, but there's a...
Oh, that's a Palsgraf with the keystone mark.
89 cents when it was new.
Oh no, 98.
Wow, it went up.
I actually like these metal cabinets too.
I'm going to have to come back here and look at furniture when I'm in a position to do that.
There's my pile forming.
Let's see, art and prints.
I like this architectural piece.
Whoops.
This one is facing the wrong way, but we can tell that it's new-ish.
From the acid-free mat, there it is upside down.
Well, it's the same either way.
Okay, a bunch of china in here, and this is very pretty floral limoge and such,
but I am pretty heavy with that sort of thing already.
More glass, but just basic glass.
This looks like an English floral pattern, probably Johnson Brothers.
This is something that sells in Johnson Brothers as well,
hearts and flowers, and they've got the soup bowls.
Those would not be bad to pick up, along with the stangle, but I've got a lot of china right now,
so unless it's serving pieces, like maybe the platter would be something that I would jet,
because you wouldn't have to collect the whole set to like that piece.
It's 1960s with this sort of squared off corner here.
Looks like a 1930s Noritake set there.
And this one, we don't even know, so I guess I have to dig.
Ah, I see, it's spine china with the silver rims, so Lennox.
Lennox Olympia.
I mean, there is a customer for this definitely, but
I'm not doing that kind of pattern matching too much right now, because I already have plenty.
Of all these books, the one I think is most interesting is The Legend of Crisscrap,
because the people who buy Crisscrap boats have money.
They're very collectible, and oh, also Churchill Downs 100th Kentucky Derby,
and Right Brain Sex.
I see a Wonder Horse back in that pile, but I got something like that already,
so I think I'll leave that there.
Let's see what Deej found.
We look like miners in here.
Oh, Vegematic.
Oh yes, that's right.
You can slice, dice, julienne, chop.
Good old Ron Popiel.
Yes, he sold all sorts of stuff on TV.
You could even stick your head to the bottom of big steel burger with some of his products.
It was amazing.
Ooh, I like metal emblems.
This is from the 70s from a Cadillac,
and you would use it to cover the key holder, and it would turn like that.
So yeah, we'll put that in our pile.
Back in these catacombs there is way more stuff.
Watching where I'm going.
Old Maytag dishwasher.
Now this definitely looks like estate leftovers from the past.
The kinds of things that didn't sell 30 years ago in estates.
Lots of regular glass in China that maybe doesn't sell now either.
Plumbing fixtures, hardware.
But there are things that the market has changed that are going to be collectible in here now.
More shoes.
These don't seem quite as hip.
They're a little pilgrim-y looking, and the condition seems worse.
Looks like little Mary Janes.
Yeah, these are very basic compared to the cool platforms we found earlier.
Too bad that years of sitting in dirt and heat got to these.
Textbooks don't usually sell.
Pat Boone, the safe alternative to rock and roll.
Signed, but not by him.
Um, you're into phonograph record?
Uh, well, a little.
Not really specifically so.
Uh, what about, like, old...
And I'm... I have a Mickey 35
Mercedaire monitor top refrigerator that works.
I love monitor tops.
I don't know that I would actually be able to, uh, take one right now, space-wise.
But, um, let me bear in mind that you've got that, and maybe I'll find someone who could.
Again, if you want me to help you, I will all the way from just...
Well, that's great.
I, uh, no, if I... if I need a hand, I'll let you know,
and I'm sure I will at some point, but right now I'm good.
Well, these are semi-pornographic fiction of a certain type from
the early days of gay liberation, and there is a collector market for these, so
we will probably take some of them.
I do have some success selling these wall mirrors with shelves from the early 60s now,
and that one looks like it's in pretty good condition,
but I just don't think I have room for it in the car.
Same with this cool 1930s wagon with the disc wheels.
That would be a fun thing to put in a display or use in a garden.
Oh, and the swastika.
That's because this is pre-World War II, and that was a good luck symbol back then.
I love these old scales, but I look for smaller ones that I can carry.
These are a two-person job, and sanitary, well, not so much anymore.
Old galvanized piece there, a scale with a balance,
and more books, but I don't see anything really interesting.
Old-school water barrel.
Water quality problems in Michigan are nothing new.
Unfortunately, a lot of industrial pollution in the southern part of the state.
Cute folk-art wooden horse from the 1970s.
A lot of the boxes on this end are really just junk.
He said that this was stuff they just sort of threw at the end, and it looks like it.
Okay, we know now they did these in Italy, Bohemia, and Japan.
I think this one's Bohemian, but the stopper is missing the part that it needs.
That's too bad.
I like this boat cooler from the 70s.
Depending on condition, let's take a look.
And, well, it's not too stained.
The poodle is cute.
Oh, well, yeah, condition is okay.
This is a maybe.
All right, we got down to this.
Ooh, what's in here?
Oh, a fair amount of dust.
Good, they should have worn masks.
Yes.
I gave you a couple of small third-party packages.
I gave him to me to give to you.
Oh, okay.
I've actually, I've got a, I've got crates and stuff in the car I'll probably use because
I'm, I'm kind of loaded down, so I'm gonna need to conserve space, but I'll work that out.
Huh, I know what that air.
This red mud dirt you're fed here?
Yep.
My grandfather had a bunch of that stuff.
Oh, yeah, ruby stained, yep, and that looks like it's Grand Rapids.
Out of about 1900, got one little chip.
These are imperial glass.
I kind of like these.
Yeah, they're beautiful.
Yeah, they're in nice shape.
I, I will send those up.
Thank you.
Hang on one moment, got those.
You got them?
Okay, great.
And then this is a little German vase from about 1900.
Okay, that's a good piece.
Yeah, cute.
And then this one is a 1930s cocktail decanter right after Prohibition was lifted.
All right, we got down to sear.
We've got just a little glass piece there.
Here's this enameled jeep that led me to move all of that.
Really thin.
I think that one's actually made offshore, although it does have age.
Cookie jar pipe mixture.
This looks like 1940s or 50s.
I have not heard of this company before.
Condition is so-so.
Okay, great.
Oh, you know what that might be?
Early fire service.
Yeah, I think it's fire service.
Yeah, this is early firemen, I think.
I think it's been touched up.
I've seen them repainted from time to time.
Yeah, I think it's had some alterations, but I like it anyway.
It's crusty, but I think there's something to it.
Yeah, it's got real dents in it from somebody.
Yeah, they actually did use it.
I know, me too.
It is fun.
It's a dirty job, but sometimes this is how we find the cool stuff that our collectors like.
We dig and we dig and we dig.
See what's in here.
Oh, I see one of these glass floral arrangements.
Let's see what kind of...
Oh, yeah, it's something there.
I do like this.
It's in good shape.
It's mainly not deep in it.
Let's find out if we can get it out around all this upper stuff.
All right, so there's what we have.
It definitely has some rust.
There are a few broken leaves.
The question is whether it's enough that we can't fix it or if it could be put back together.
So we're going to see.
Yeah, I think it's a little too rough.
It is a cool piece.
Somebody could restore this or at least make it acceptable with a little bit of effort,
but I don't think that person is me.
I think I'm going to leave it out so that it is easy to spot for the next person, though,
because I'm afraid it's going to get more damaged if I try to put it back in that box.
Yep, Alaska Sportsman.
This was the thing in the 50s before it was even a state.
I'm up in Washington state part of the year.
I actually like these.
I think I'm interested in those.
Okay, yeah, they're gonna...
It's specific, but where I sell it actually makes sense.
Galvanized fuel can, an old pottery jug, crockery, but not really with this ink stamp,
and it's pretty crusty.
A picnic basket.
I like those, but I've got a few in old sleds.
Same with those.
Guys apparently spent lots of time in their offices putting and practicing golf in the 50s.
Well, I think we've come to the back wall.
I see more furniture piled high.
Apple baskets.
A lot of apple growing in Michigan.
Lots of piles of lots of stuff.
A cool looking 50s era lamp, but it would need a shade and it's a beige and a boring color.
A couple of toy trucks from my era, but they are crusty.
Old suitcase, but it looks worn.
This old frame for Hart Schaffner and Mark's clothing would have had
the latest suits advertised in the middle of it.
That's from about 1950.
If you could find the old pages that went in it, that'd be a good thing.
Well, this is a nice umbrella stand.
I think it is Red Wing actually, rather than Weller.
Looking at the pattern up close, it's a little damaged there,
which is unfortunate, but you know, these were usually up against a wall or something
or near a radiator and they might have worn on that.
One side of it seems to be perfect.
That's going to date to probably 1915 or 20.
Well, my microphone battery ran out of time at the same time that Deej and I did,
but so grateful to Chuck for letting us in and giving us this opportunity.
Very grateful for Deej setting this up.
You can check out her version of this on her channel, Digging with Deej at YouTube.
If you are interested in going through this warehouse yourself
and you're anywhere in the Pontiac, Michigan area,
send an email to me at theantiquenomad at gmail.com
because they are looking for other people who are coming in to shop.
So if that looks like a fun dig to you, let me know.
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