They have everything, not just antiques, across huge grass fields. If you like haggling with vendors and unique goods. The May sale is usually the best of the year as vendors unload their winter finds.
United States railroad date nails ranging from 1921 to 1950. Date nails were used on utility poles & railroad crossties (not every crosstie) from about 1900 into the 1970s. They have an embossed 2-digit year designation (e.g. "41" = 1941). #archaeology#antiques#History
In news unrelated to anything important, I scored this possibly Adams Pearlware Blue Willow antique plate yesterday. It has pudgy asterisk shapes for the little creek but it’s lovely. #blueWillow#antiques#plates#ThingsILike#score
Okay, I know I left my small blue notebook in one of these drawers... #HardwickHall Derbyshire. Amazing collection of old filing drawers! #antiques#countryhouses
Some of us remark about the speed at which consumer devices become “ancient,” but we spotted these in an actual antique store just yesterday!
This could easily be one of these new screen and software driven cars sold today, but a scant 6-7 years. I’m quite happy with my 18+ year old car. I have no faith car companies understand software or can magically maintain and support it properly.
Thinking about the difference between #memorabilia and #antiques. At the moment, rare items of 1980s popular culture are catching wild prices from nostalgic 50-y-os. I got $40 for a pewter miniature the other day. But 50 years from now, I don't really see anyone caring that much about an unopened 1979 Han Solo action figure. While exclusive 18th century furniture just keeps getting more expensive.
I love black-and-white photography. This is one of my black-and-white closeups of vintage things (which I tend to love). This is a Corona Four typewriter, which is now nearly 100 years old. I love the patina of age that appears in this photo. Find it here: https://jon-woodhams.pixels.com/featured/t-is-for-typewriter-jon-woodhams.html
In November while in upstate New York, we took a small afternoon trip to Saratoga Springs, a small, relatively affluent college town near where @seanbala grew up. We made two stops. One was Lyrical Ballad Bookstore. It was an amazing warren of shelves and lots of old books, maps, newspapers, and pictures. Funny thing is that even though he grew up here, this was Sean's first time going!
I have an old #mirror that came with the house I bought. I had the mirror in the lobby and moved it today to be able to put some furniture I bought. Right behind it I found some "liquid beads" I believe to be #mercury even if I'm not 100% sure. I wonder what could have caused this and if it's in anyway dangerous due to the toxicity of mercury. If you've got any clue about this, let me know. #Antiques#OldFurniture#MercuryMirror
Funny thing to find in a grocery store … for $2.
Kidding. It was an antique shop in Pomona - which is still open for business 40 years later.
I have a few Be Bop Deluxe albums and some Python; not sure why I would have bought Joan Baez at that time, but there it is in my stacks.
Inside the double sleeve was the receipt, and stuck way in the back was the promised 7" 33 1/3 RPM single that I never noticed in all these years. It has a Woody Guthrie track on it with lyrics that bite. That man knew what was what - in 1961.
[A Campbell River landmark during the town’s early years, the Willows Hotel served both an international sportsfishing clientele and the rough and ready loggers from isolated camps. This permanent exhibit shows the Willows’ façade and entrance through which visitors step into the hotel lobby as it would have appeared c. 1914]