We Found Incredible Vintage Deals at This Market

Hola muchachas y damas. I am at the Tijuana Mercado on Tijuana Beach on Mondays. This happens every week but this is a big one. We're on a side street that usually isn't open. This is a holiday weekend and all of the vendors are out. These guys are just minding their business. Some owls over here. This one looks like it might have age. Great face. Ah yes, the signature. I think that is Costa. Yes it is. Come with me. They just sold another Costa owl of different kinds. We'll ask about this. Russian products. We think of that as Icarus but I believe this actually has another meaning to Russians. Oh she has to work. There is a vintage community here that sells but a lot of people are coming for this sort of thing. Clothes, shoes, groceries. And so I'm hoping that I can find and scarf up some of the good vintage deals because there are things here. I found some good stuff here in the past. Here's some old things. We see some uranium glass. This one has been heavily phosphated though and that would be hard to get off. You might be able to clean it with Efrident or CLR but it's a tough one. The plate is 1930s but it has a chip. These are pretty worn but they do have old stuff in this booth so we'll keep looking. This is a cute little bag with the embroidery. Actually, that's paint now that I look at it more closely. Good luck from Robert Fitzsimmons. Ah and these are these folks and they set up here and if you are in the area you can see other places that they sell including Swapmeet La Mesa. Saint Anthony medal and a Jesuit medal. Some of the religious iconography including this piece. Razor is in good shape. Spike razor. This is actually a hanging piece representing the holy child. I like these sunglasses. Let's see if we know where they're from. Cool Ray Polaroid. Ah I do have a thing about sunglasses. What do y'all think? So these are vintage. They're a little affected in the lens unfortunately and the people I buy for actually are using them. Some little football charms here. This one is some sort of a league championship. This little charm. Sometimes these are gold and silver. These appear to be plated pieces. Duke football. A nice jewelry box here. Hollywood Regency with the rose. Rose is popular. That's from about 1970. We negotiated a price of 250 pesos which currently is around 14 dollars. That's a little more than I usually pay for those jewelry boxes but it's the rose and the rose seemed to sell for more. This is something I haven't seen before. Pastry set. Gold medal. A sifter top flower. So basically you could sift the stuff in here. It has a little thing that goes around and that was made by Hazel Atlas sometime in the 1950s. I find that rather interesting. So this is Carlos Dominguez Arevillaga. And he has a YouTube channel as well and he obviously gets neat old stuff as you can see. So check him out. One other nice thing he has. Oh Royal Albert. Oh I wouldn't have a thought. Oh yeah yeah. But jewelry museum. It looks like Dresden. Oh that's a good price. The great thing about Antiques and Vintage is it transcends language and culture and if you like old stuff you just get each other right away. So that was a lot of fun and I will subscribe to his channel. It will help me learn Spanish to see him talk about antique and vintage things that I understand in my language. The old steamer trunk is a flat top that could be used as a table but the top really would have to be restored in some manner. I talk a lot about how I don't buy the more recent Hot Wheels because I don't know the dates and things but this is really great because they price them all for us with the dates on them. So we do see some that go back into the 1990s at least. There's an old Brownie movie projector in its original box. Now this is an 8 millimeter. If I see 16 millimeter I pick them up. 8 millimeter are more common but a lot of people want to use old 16 millimeter if they have it and they're less common. Things are in bloom and it is beautiful but the weather's always beautiful here. These folks are the other ones who definitely are vintage dealers and we will take a look real quickly. I found a wonderful panther lamp which is with our friend Betty R. She had to work today so I am on my own. Another old car decanter from the 1960s but it's missing its foot ornament. A lot of people use parking meters as banks. This one's been rewired into a lamp. I like the old scale but I have a couple of those already. It's got a state of California label and 1956 was the last time it was registered. I had a big collection of these and did very well with them. This one is monogrammed which is a bit of a minus unfortunately but it is a Ronson lighter in the original box from the 1930s. That is a cigarette case that opens underneath. I see a lot of prices in the $45 and $50 range on these in the states. This one's in pretty good condition. The color is all there and it has nice churned metal inside. When these were new they sold for $10 and that was a lot of money in the depression but they were very popular. A beautiful porcelain clock from about 1900 Ansonia made in Connecticut. The porcelain is just really lovely. That is just elegant. I usually see clocks like this selling in the $150 range these days. What's nice about the Ansonia clock is that this one the porcelain maker actually took credit for their work. This is Bonn porcelain from Germany. Le Var is the pattern. Bonn had porcelain makers long before it was the capital of West Germany. But the clock I really like is General Electric Youth Electronics the circus wagon with the leopard. Now it seems to me like the wheels maybe had covers of some sort that are missing. I'm not really sure what's going on there but that is a really cute piece. I just get the feeling that some things are missing on the wheel covers and the knob. Otherwise I would be very interested in that. Ellie Smith Goose Girl and then next to it a Heise Goose. In the old days the Heise Goose would have sold for $40 or $50. Nowadays it's the Ellie Smith piece that is in higher demand especially this one because the orange where you see the light coming through and it goes to more of an amberina color that is where you will get the cadmium glow. So this one should glow really well under a black light. They've turned over a lot of merchandise but I see they still have the Charlie Tuna phone. I liked this last time that their price was more than I was willing to pay. They're made in Hong Kong. There's something from about 1987 actually as it says on it and they still have the Globe transistor radio too. I love that piece. I would love to buy it from them. They were higher than I was willing to pay last time so we'll ask about that. When people have had things a while they're more negotiable. Love the Tonalos squirrel there as well. Well I like all those things but their prices are still close to retail and the Globe they are listening to not selling they've decided so that lets me out. Now when I say near retail part of the reason for that is that Mexican peso has gained 15 percent value against the U.S. dollar since the war began. So we're going to go down the side streets and see if we find someone who's a little less expensive today. But I don't blame them. They're not asking unfair prices. Gene Simmons with blood exclusive. No wonder parents didn't want their kids listening to Kiss Back In My Day. I don't eat the street food because well I don't have the stomach for it but I do buy the vegetables because wow they have full cep and a lot of it's organic and grown right down the road in Valle de Guadalupe. Occasionally find things in these places that are just sort of random. I do see a little baby planter over there on that table. The choo-choo train and a couple of dishes next to it that look like they're vintage but they go to a Lazy Susan set. Another jewelry table. Let's see if we find anything vintage. This looks older here. I like the baguettes the emerald shaped stones. It is missing a stone. That's a pretty easy one to replace. It's gold filled. I am seeing some people starting to buy gold filled just because the price of gold is so high now. This one looks like a JJ to me. The artist's hat with the bird. Very cute but it does not have a JJ signature and I really only buy them if they do. Now this one is square but I believe it's check the way it's stamped and that's actually cute enough to buy if the price is not high. Notice when you get to the far end that the deals get better. That was only 50 pesos which is about $3.50. Barlow knife. This is a pretty common pocket knife. They weren't very well finished on the handle. Some nice tendons and lavaliers but mostly contemporary. Contemporary means made within the last 30 years. OK plushes. This one seems to have glass eyes but he's not a steif. Not the right material for that. Duck dynasty figures. That'll be a thing eventually. Squeeze my belly and I think I'll take a pass. Coin dealer has vintage Mexican and a set of American pennies. The 1941 on book. Of course pennies are no more. He also has some Morgan and feast dollars. Fairly common dates in the upper left corner and in the middle from the 1968 Olympics in Mexico. Indian pennies. The Franklin dollar. So some stuff. White clad. These are simulations of old oak ice boxes that were done in the 1970s when the originals became very popular. It has the white clad Simmons hardware sign on it. These folks actually bring a whole bunch of furniture. Everything including the kitchen or bathroom sink. OK is this a Turvis tubbler? No it's metal. Yeah. I'm sure your wife is impressed but her friends are not. In many places succulents are houseplants. Here they're just plants. But we've made it to the on-ramp to Rosarito so we are at the end of Playas and now we have the other side to see. That is one angry chicken. And muscular. Visitors to the Californias often wonder why the bottom of the trees are painted. That is to prevent pests. Now this trunk would also serve as a table although it's not completely flat. It is slightly domed. This is from about 1910 with the slats. This one is definitely in better condition than the first one. The straps are gone. You can get replacements for those though. The last time I was in this I found an Orifor's decanter for $5 US. Here are a bunch of the Metlox Red Rooster pattern. This was popular in the 1960s in particular. You see the poppy trail label. That was their brand name. And they also have the rose pattern by the same company. You can see these rivets in the design. That was part of their provincial line of blanks. The big bullseye punch set was $40 somewhere in the states. But these prices are not the they're charging here. They often go to auctions and get large lots of things. Now you can all say you saw Mr. Beast at the flea market. I like the tapestry with La Vergne de Guadalupe. These are not vergins. Let's see what we have here. This looks like pretty good quality. Although I do see a seam mark down the back. Ah, Czech Republic. So not brand new. I like this. This reminds me of pieces I got in Gdansk. It may be sterling. I'd be curious to know their price on that one. It is amber. Most of the jewelry is newer. But I will ask about that piece and when this does not have a maker name. And it does have a chit. Well that was my favorite find of the day so far. I paid the equivalent of $29.41 for a sterling and I have typically sold those in the $60 to $70 range and that was before silver went up. So I think that was a good buy for me and they seemed happy too. A little more jewelry. For some reason the older jewelry seems to always be on this end of this market. This one, ah yes it is Trefari. Is it crown mark? No it is not. So it's after 1969 when they took the crown off. It's just a choker size but it's nice with the gold tone and the faux curls and if the price is right I would get it. I haven't been buying a lot of that sort of look but I know there are collectors for it and it all just depends where you're selling and I have several shows in other parts of the country coming up and it was 50 pesos. Subscribe and we will take you to infinity and beyond or at least everywhere that we go in the antique and vintage world and we go a lot of places. A zero fan hiding under there. I have one of those in stock though and it looks like it needs new wiring. I need a haircut and they have lots of great choices but I don't think I'm ready for this. Okay this place has a lot of stuff and a lot of people and things in boxes. Are any of them vintage? We're going to see. Shot glasses look is sort of a boring color though. 1968. Genuine knoll knack. People like these because they can use them as jewelry sorters, coin sorters, and obviously for food. We are looking for things that are aged to perfection. Is this one of them? I like the look. Lots of filigree. It's the fish. Today yes. How are you? She's working today yes. Well that was Betty's aunt's friend and she had this very pretty fish necklace made of filigrina or filigree as we call it that she obtained when she was in Chiapas and she sold it to me for 100 pesos and I thought that was a fine deal. 70s era crockpot with the great graphics. It looks like it's a really clean shape but that's a big thing for me to cherry. Mitty spent a long time putting that shoe to slay together. Up the old narimba. This is definitely a surfing area right around the Tlapanesu area on both sides of the border. So this could be useful but I never learned how. Okay some more brass. Oh this one says Iraq. A lot of brass made in that part of the world of course. This is alabaster. Now a lot of times these are dyed as you can see here and if it gets wet it will come off so I try to avoid those. This one's blowing blasts but not significant and that is not really well done so it's not one of our favorite masers. You see there's a bubble here. Yes you can even bring your dogs. Very expensive. This is noritake. 200 for all. That's a great price. But I have so much china right now. These are capa gumonte from the 1970s and they have the problems we usually associate with capa gumonte from the 1970s because these are very fragile. Hard to move without touching the flowers. Hard to move without breaking the flowers. Unfortunate that this is broken because these are in neat hair. They look like Gregorian copper. Late 40s early 50s. They don't have a signature. Two generations of clocks. I like the one on Mop. That's actually a pretty good model and people like the see-through ones where you see the movement. Old mandolins can be worth buying. Particularly certain brands. This one hasn't been strung in many years and it's slightly warped on the surface. That can be a problem. It's missing a little of its trim. It does not have a maker name that I can see. Just a patent fit mark on the bottom. Likely to be 1920s or 30s when mandolin playing was really popular. The elephant standing on the rotary phone. Was that a phone originally? Maybe a phone was kept in there. Some nice little coffer pieces. The one on the right has a monogram and that's actually a conturence unfortunately. Twinplex glottostropper. That is from about 1930 when people were sharpening their own blades. This is interesting to me because they cooked this off at a Chrysler Imperial. So it's actually a car emblem. Coca-Cola Star X. Let's see where this was made. Yeah this is still made in Virginia so it's one of the older ones. But fairly common and I have several that are actually more obscure companies. The brass mailbox is cute. It's not as old as it looks. Probably a 1960s production. Little mesh purse but it's missing color. Wainsboro. I don't see anything silver but a lot of times when you see these that there's a whole flank that's worth going through because a lot of the other countries make things in silver that people don't recognize. Someone has put a new quartz movement in this old marble clock. It's a great clock and a lot of people will replace with quartz. But you didn't tell right away it's not original. Oh wow I could be the president. Zeus has one of those really cool Mexican furs to sit in. There is a Mennonite community here in Tijuana. A lot of folks come to medical purposes. Yes they indeed sell anything here. If this works this would be a great thing to have. It's a 1930s Hamilton B Shake Mixer in the classic jadeite green. They redid the top in the 50s. So this is the first version the number 18 and they're worth about $130. Someone found a new version of the old web chairs. I am one of the few people I think are looking for antiques and is a community here that looks for such stuff. But today I think I'm on my own. There is some interest in older Seiko spots. That's a transistor Sonola. I think that's 1980s. You know looks like 1930s. Such a design. Old squeeze box for the Germany. That's cute. I never thought of Mexico as being a place that they played rugby. So I learned something there. Something really appeals to me about that notion. I don't know enough about Pokemon cards to look at these and know automatically which ones might be the valuable ones. I know that errors are a big thing. Sometimes the errors are pretty obvious but not to me in this route. I'm not the only one who looks at the bottoms of things. Beasts seem oddly placed here. Queen Elizabeth found her coronation. I have not seen this piece before. And this one is her parents but I'm a little suspicious of these because they have no wear. I think these are reproduction. No wear. The same shape. 30 years apart. Yeah, I don't trust those. These are from the 1970s. Hupalpiddybank. Predice. Oh no this one's newer. Made in China. See they're reproducing those too. You really do have to look at things. Now that I think about it that's a little lightweight for an old one. In the nibble of Bracaya there are Pyrex bowls and their solid color with the poo bottom are starting to sell. But they have their newer face lettering and that means they're not as brand new. Some older little turtle tractors. John Deere but these are made... this one's made in China so not real old. I recognize these from my childhood. They certainly have a lot although I do prefer the ones from my childhood back in the 1960s and 70s. The DeLorean on the other hand didn't exist back then and the Back to the Future would be collectible for movie buffs as well. I need to show this because I announced Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s death prematurely. Of course it was his father who was tragically killed in an accident and has become something of legend. Some of these toy boxes ended up here. Looks like it's been pretty quick. Am I right? This is Deco Revival from the 80s. I had one of these but it was really hard to sell with that clear coating. It just doesn't look right. I could eventually sell it but it took a few years so I rushed to get another one. This is nice. This might be JJ. Yep. This is all a bit bent but that's an easy fix. We'll ask about that. That fish is having its best life. I kind of like that it's nearer than it looks. So shiny on the back. Same with the kitty but this poodle has some age. Oh yes and they have some plush here. Just a little bit. And a bunch of Simpsons toys and Hello Kitty. There might be something vintage in all of this. I don't think I'm gonna have the time to find out. This might come in handy for me. Another old trunk and some 1970s copper craft plaques that are kind of cool. But what I'm really interested in from the 70s is this very red wall phone. That is a great color and probably the most popular color in phones. Partly because of the old red hotline between the Kremlin and the White House during the Cold War. Now this one needs rewiring. It's easy enough to take the back off and put a couple of clips on and restore it but I'd need a donor phone. Nice Murano bold. A double layer from the 1960s but I have a lot of blue and a lot of that size right now so I'm gonna skip on that even though it's a nice piece. Now behind it is something that we see from the 70s a lot and that is this. This nut machine. That was a novelty then. The drunk on the lamppost lights do sell now for about 50 bucks. We assume the purple bird is Murano but actually there were a lot like that made in Mexico too. They're typically a little cloudier and have small bubbles though so I think that one is Italian. Cute 1940s ship's wheel clock by General Electric but unfortunately the condition is not great. This space has sort of a multi-ethnic feel that I like. You see wall masks from various parts of the world and a bunch of brass from India and other points from the 1970s as well as the candelabra there. I really like the gold but these are heavy and would be a little difficult for me to take. The late 40s we see a lot of interest in western design and this clock is from that time period. This would definitely sell for me in the places where I sell such things but the condition again is just a little rough. Poor zebra. This is a form of taxidermy that was popular in Victorian times when it was thought that those animals were so plentiful they would always exist. Now we don't do this sort of thing. There are collectors for it. I've seen ostrich and I've seen elephant legs. Some of them are not legal to own anymore though. So earlier costume jewelry was not always prong set and so this piece is actually old from about 1940. The Scotty pin. Very cute. Might have to get that and I get this too but it looks like it's broken and I don't want to repair. I have someone looking for a Sherlock Holmes style pipe. This almost fits the bill. Not quite. I do buy old pipes though. They are selling. Speaking of nearing extinction, a lot of shark species are now because of sport fishing and fear because of the movie Jaws which came out 50 years ago. This vase is pretty. It's art glass but let's look at the bottom because it looks new to me and yes you can see very blobby pontil polished off. It just isn't quite right to be old and it feels slick. This vase is always really heavy on metal objects. I like the cobra vase on the candlestick from the 70s. That's another Indian piece. They've got lots of bells. I think this is fluorite. Whatever mineral it is it looks great on the leucite basis of sculpture but another heavy thing that I don't think I want to take back. And behind it I see an old camby scale and there's definitely interest in those but I've got one in stock already and it's big to carry. The classic metal pencil sharpener that a lot of us were raised with in elementary school even though they were a generation older than us. They all still work. In a sea of 1970s and 80s metal let's look for the old thing on the table and that's this bell. This is 75 years older than everything else on this table as a matter of fact. But I do see a painted 1970s piece above these cats here that I like and it's this. I really like Israeli brass and they could use some piece in Jerusalem. It's nicely painted and I think I'll ask about this. Banthroco that made the Banks may have also made this piece. The bottom is different but that may be because it's mounted with a cigarette lighter. These silver tone Rolls Royces were done in the 1980s and 90s. The lighter does seem to work. Another bell. This one is 1970s Japanese cloisonné and they like to leave some of the brass exposed in this era. They did that also in the 1930s but this does not have as much patina as a 1930s piece would have. It looks like the person next to me has found a heishi made of turquoise. That could be valuable. Those can sell for over a hundred dollars. It looks like there's more in that case too. Nine branch menorah are for Hanukkah so this one is for daily use. And then we have Kokopelli, a very popular ethnographic figure that became a big deal in the 1990s. I have a woman in Seattle looking for bugs and crap in leucites so I think I'll inquire about these. Hmm do I need any supplements? They're certainly a lot cheaper here at the flea market than they are in the stores. In rural places in the United States and in Mexico, gas irons were a thing from about 1910 till the 1940s when most people had electricity. The blue one is at Coleman. And I really like this shaving mirror. These are really fun. They were just very basic but they had everything you needed in one place in the 20s and hello everybody's. You have to blip the toast yourself but these 1920s toasters usually still work. And then we have several fezzes including one from the membership director of the organization. Under the old Polaroid is one of these things used for underwater cameras before they had waterproof cameras. The whole box in leucite. This is a nice small trunk for linens or perhaps for a child. It's got the original fittings with the covers and I love the lithographs in there. Very pretty. This would be a nice thing to use for display somewhere. And then there's a few spaces like this. If you're willing to dig there might be a treasure in there especially if you're a general reseller. I'm not. That looks a little more like England. Someone has just pulled up and is selling out of the trunk of their car. A boot sale they call it in England. Let's see what it's like here. There's quite a frenzy. Mostly clothes and newer housewares. But somebody got a cart full. I could take home some records if there's anything cool here. These look like 60s era and some of those can be good. So let's take a look. Cleopatra from the movie. And it looks like it's in good shape with all the information. I think I would try that. He said they're only a dollar a piece. The first family was a spoof on the Kennedys when they were in the White House. It's actually pretty funny if you're a political person who understands that time. Old time piano music and cha-cha-cha. Ooh looks fun. I'll definitely spend a dollar on this to take to Florida. Well Bill Cosby and wonderfulness don't go together anymore. I watched this show on television when I was a kid. A lot of us did. I want that music box. It's worth $1,500. They're still playing this song. Everybody knows that one. I really like swing music and I have this. It's got a great libretto that talks about the bands and the music of the time. These would have originally come with the percolator that also would have had the Cherry Bakelite handles in the 1930s. Lots of copper. I see crystal but I don't think I see any Waterford patterns. A little decorative ship's wheel. And then this is one of the beam race cars. The old time cars from the 1960s based on 1910s cars. It is not completely intact but I like it. They're modern race cars from the 60s sell better nowadays though. I never understood the yellowish cast on these 1970s pieces until I saw a home decorating magazine where the walls were bright green and then it made sense to me. They're kind of cool. Even the side streets are loaded with vendors today. We'll take one more look. I see some vintage fishing reels behind the poles here. There is a customer for these. That one's newer with the flywheel. But this one is a Penn and this is the Penn 500. One of the most common of its era though. I like the ones that are more decorative. These have color. This is also by Penn and that handle means 1970 or so. Kind of at the end date of when I picked these up. Some brands sell for a lot more though. If any of you who were kids in the 80s and grew up during the dinosaur craze can help me out here, I don't know what I'm looking at to know new from old. But I know there's collectors for some of these and they just all look the same to me. So help educate me. Leave a comment. One last jewelry stop here. I see little owls. They don't look very old. But those button covers, remember when those were a big thing back in the 80s and 90s? I think they are. 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