Found One Heck of A Deal In The Marion, SC MARKET Antique Mall!

Don, what are you doing? I've had people give me so much about these ducks Donnie. I had uh one of our buddies said he's gonna mail you one. How much is that one? 90 dollars. The thing is we don't know nothing about the ducks so uh but Donnie wants a duck for some reason. That one's 75. So we are in an antique mall in Marion. Is it Marion? Yeah I'm in Marion. Marion, South Carolina. So that's a nice place we've been in before. So we're going to walk around a little bit and we'll show you some of the stuff that's in here. There's another duck. What is that for though? That one's a little different. Donnie's looking for a porch duck to put in on his porch. What about this little one? 40. 40. Yeah so we don't know which ones are worth money. He just wants one to sit out on the porch I think. A big one. All right we'll see what we can find. Check this out. It's purple glass. It says purple glass history. Sun purple glass starts out completely clear. Before 1910 glass makers add a mineral called manganese to their glass mix to remove any natural green tints and make the glass look crystal clear. However when manganese faces ultraviolet uv sunlight for a very long time usually 75 years or more it triggers a slow chemical reaction. This reaction causes the clear glass to permanently turn purple. The final color can range from pale lavender to deep amethyst depending on how much manganese is inside and how long it sits in the sun. Today collectors can find this beautiful purple glass in antique soda bottles old medicine jars and vintage dentists wear. But look at this. They've got the whole setup of it. That's pretty cool Donnie. Well yeah we've never seen that before but now we know. So now it's another thing to look for. Donnie there's a whole shelf of ducks there. Oh it's just decoys. He's not looking for a decoy. He wants like a big duck that he can sit on the porch. Apparently though we're seeing a lot of these in these stores so apparently that's a big thing right now and the price is pretty wild. Look at this Donnie. Richard Petty the man. You know what I like about him? He had 199 races that he'd won and then he went years and years and years and then he won number 200. It took him years to do it but he just kept going. He finally won his 200th race. What a stud. I like that. Yeah that's a great sign. GE major appliance television F&H. What's F&H mean? Maybe that's yeah maybe that was the name of the company that had it. They've got a whole bunch of Pyrex in here. Oh yeah that's a that's a small one. What's up with the top? I've never seen the top like that. That's the top that goes on. Huh yeah I've never seen that. That's pretty cool. Yeah this place gets all kinds of cool stuff. First round and they've got it lit up. That's nice. Oh look Rose radio and tv service department. Chickens are still up there on the other shelf. Yeah I don't know if we showed that to them before. No I think we were just filming that for uh Tawny. Yeah they're shelf chickens. They like sit up on your shelf and look down at you. So got some little look at the old Raggedy Ann and Andy lunch box. Nine dollars and sixty cents. Batman, Mickey, the Rugrats. This is a cool place. There's a lot of stuff back here in the back. Big Sinclair oil sign has been shot at a bunch. Donnie has yet to find a duck but we're looking around. Random books, ceramics, a little bit of furniture, insulators. This used to be a big thing. You used to be able to just find those laying on the side of the uh you could find them. Old school mop. That's pretty cool. It's actually a sweeper but uh scrubbing brush it says. Look how cool this is and so it's an old projector and it's so old it's back whenever the the project the film didn't have audio on it or maybe that's just slides actually and uh it has a record player built into it so that you could play audio since the film wouldn't have audio on it. It's really cool. An autographed picture of from Kim Pearson. It says Kim Pearson Kimpson Air Show from 1987. Pretty cool and the king here has been turned into a lamp. Looks pretty good and then we've got a United Horse Clock. These are really cool. It's even got oh it's like a plastic base. It's not really marble. Looks nice though. These are kind of sad to see in these places the old yearbooks and the the sad thing is the older they are the cheaper they are because um it just gets to where people don't remember any of the people that are in there and people pass away and at the they sell at their estate sale when they just um and they're usually all in very nice shape because I've been sitting on a shelf for a long time. I've got my yearbooks and I can't even tell you the last time I looked in them. It's just one of those things that's human I guess. You need a Floyd Mayweather poster Donnie? Okay. You can find about anything in these places. Um there's a bunch of baseball cards over here too. You don't see that too much anymore. There was a time back in the 80s whenever my dad was all in the baseball cards so we uh we helped put sets together and stuff. So it's kind of cool seeing all the boxes around. The tops. Yeah they still got some of the they call these um junk wax Donnie. The junk wax era where they weren't worth anything but I don't think they're junk. I think they're cool um but I don't collect them because they take up a bunch of room. I don't collect them. Yeah and I'm not all that big in the sports so you know you kind of need to know who the players are and everything and I'm just not all that interested. I couldn't tell you 10. Yeah. So these anniversary clocks are in a lot of places. It's always they're always not set though because they those things like gain and lose all kinds of time if they're not set right and it takes you forever to figure out. Is that $30? Surely it ain't $570. No I think $570 might be the uh $570. Yeah that's the number of the place $570 and $30. I don't know everything says $300 on it. It says $30. I don't know maybe that is $30. There ain't no way. If it is we're taking it home. We got to figure out. All right we're gonna do some research. Well I didn't think we were gonna find anything in there but this clock really was $30. This is an old clock Donnie. Ronnie I don't care about the clock. Guess what I got? What'd you get? I got me some more Pyrex. The bowl was $5 and it's because it's faded but Donnie doesn't care. Guess what? They gave me a discount. Did they? Yeah out the door it was $4.80. Wow it's faded. It's supposed to be like a little darker color than that and shiny. Yeah it's the wheat. That's what everybody calls it. Yeah the wheat thing but it's not the brown one. It's like an orange not a brown. But back to this clock. How many of them? So when did they make that Pyrex bowl? This one's probably 70s maybe. Yeah well this clock I think is from 1865. Oh yeah. I got to make sure my Pyrex don't break. Here we go again. All right so here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to end the video by looking this thing up. Now I can't completely look it up but um it's a Seth Thomas. I can cut you can this is loose on the side. I got a brad nail. I'll take care of it Donnie. Okay um so this is an old one day clock. So I'm gonna pull these out because if they leave them in there they roll around and they mess up the the paper on the back. There should be a little thing in the door. Yeah that'd be perfect. So that's maybe the one for the time and this is the one for the the uh strike and then it had the pendulum. I think that pendulum the little wires out like that Donnie's talking about. And the winding key. I don't know what that's for. That yeah I don't know what that's for but we'll get that out there so it doesn't scratch up my my label here. Yeah and that's the piece that was missing for the pendulum. Yeah it might be a little nut. Donnie can see it from his side. Uh that might be for the door. You turn the handle on the door. A little something there. All right you you folks are in for a treat. Oh it won't work because it doesn't have the weights in it. Never mind it's not a spring Sometimes if it's driven by a spring there's a little lever in here you can push up which will make it start chiming. But this is what it would have sounded like. You can adjust it a little bit. It's hitting it a little too hard. Like it shouldn't sit on it should be off a little bit. Does that sound a little better? All right so anyway I think this is from about 1865. Really old but the the thing is since they only you have to do their 30 hour clocks you have to pull those weights back up every 30 hours. So like noon each day they give you a couple extra hours just in case you don't make it. So they're even though they're old and they're beautiful and they're cool people just don't really they're not that into them because they're not going to remember to rewind them and so they just sit around and look pretty and nobody wants to throw them away because they're so cool. This particular one though is really ornate. They don't usually look like this. They're a lot more plain. So this one's pretty cool. So I will see if I can figure out what year this one was made. I might be able to tell by the way the cabinet looks. So I'll put that on the end of the video here but tell them what to do Donnie. Y'all give us a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you hadn't already and we'll catch you on the next one. Okay so I'm looking this clock up trying to figure out when it was made or just some information. I'm just trying to find somebody else that's got a similar one. The only thing on it that's throwing me for a loop is that it's two-tone. There's two different finishes on it. I don't know that I've ever seen a Seth Thomas clock like that so but at the top of these posts it's kind of gilded and then it's like a marbleized looking thing and then on the dial you've got the decorations on the corner and you've got the lines for the minutes and all that stuff kind of helps date it. If I took the face off I could look and see if there's a date on the movement but we're within like 10 years so we don't really need that and then this is what the glass looks like. If you let the light hit it, this glass is wavy which tells you that it's pretty old. It could be that the two-tone part is somebody just refinished it really nice. Somebody stripped it all down and refinished it but I don't think that they did because it's not perfect. Everything's not perfect. It just looks like it's in nice original shape. It also says Thomaston, Connecticut. They named the town after Seth Thomas in 1865 so it means it's from 1865 or newer. Hard to tell exactly when but it would have been they stopped making them probably 1890 or something like that so it'll have been sometime between 1865 and 1890. Okay so here's a picture of one on eBay that's similar but just doesn't have the gilded parts and it does look like it may have been two-tone if you look at the bottom of the door there and then the base so maybe they did make some of them like that. This is an earlier Seth Thomas you know completely different design of course but they used two different tones of wood on that. Here's one that's pretty much our clock but it's not two-tone but it's got the same pillars. It's got the gold gild on the top and the bottom. It's got the same painting in the bottom, exact same painting. It's got the same dial and it shows the same label inside where it was made and then here is another one in a darker finish but with the same pillars same painting same dial and they're all good you know everybody's kind of guessing dates that are saying between 1865 and this one says late 19th century so they don't quite know exactly when if you look at their catalogs you see things like this this is from 1865 and it's a little different the painting's not the same so that might mean ours is a little a little later. Ours has to be after 1865 because it says Thomaston but I'm sorry this is from 1878 so maybe ours was between 65 and 78 but they were still making the basic design with the same columns and it says gilt columns there are some online where the whole column is gold and of course it's just like a paint it's not it's not actual gold and it says 30 hour or small eight day strike and wait so it does the time strike like ours does and it's still weight so even though they had invented spring clocks by this point they were still making these weight driven clocks it looks like up to about 1900 so it could really be anytime between 1865 and 1900 and this is a nice one that they made basic same design basically so there you go that's a pretty good deal I think 30 bucks they and it was 30 bucks and it had everything with it in pretty nice shape it needs that one part of the door attached back properly that won't be no big deal had everything with it now these clocks they're not real super valuable although that is a pretty nice example of one so that's probably if I got it working and everything and you know it could sit there and tick and talk and do what it's supposed to do I would say top dollar on it's probably like 150 bucks but so pretty cool so if you like that kind of stuff I work on clocks radios old record players all kinds of old stuff on my other channel this is Donnie's channel of course but on my channel amateur repair time go check that out I think it's listed at the bottom of Donnie's channel where you can find us and subscribe over there and watch me work on some of this stuff I'm working on an old tv right now and an old record player so we will see you then and Donnie will be back here in a couple days hope you enjoyed the video