Thursday, June 30, 2011

Paul McCobb Planner Group Desk



Every garage sale season I find something like this and it makes all of it worth it. This is a wonderfully fabulous way cool Paul McCobb Planner Group Desk! It's had a not so good restoration done to it so I'm thinking this will be my summer project. Can I bring it back? I'm hoping so!! The real question is how did a Paul McCobb desk manufactured by Winchedon Furniture in Massachusetts go from a hotel in Shanghai, China to our little Mid-western town?

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Talking Pictures



What a great way to document the personal history of people's lives.

Paden City Pottery Dinnerware Set

This is a great old set of Paden City Pottery dinnerware in the ivy pattern.

Available for sale HERE!

Monday, June 27, 2011

Kodak Bantom RF 35mm Camera 1953 by Industrial Designer Arthur Crapsey


Woha! This is a Kodak Bantom RF 35 mm Camera designed by Arthur H. Crapsey. This bakelite camera was produced from 1953-1957 by Eastman Kodak. Crapsey was a degreed Ceramic Designer that joined the US Army Air Corps during WWII. He lost his leg and ended his flying career but began his career in industrial design. The Bantom RF makes 28 x 40mm exposures on Kodak's type 828 special 35 mm paper backed roll film. It features a non-self-cocking 300 shutter and 50 mm f/3.9 Kodak Ektanon lens. Because I am not able to verify the working condition of the camera I have it priced to sell.

The Bantom RF is available for sale HERE!

SOLD

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Elle Pottery Plate


And people wonder why I garage sale! ;) Tisk, tisk I have a Norwegian Elle Pottery Plate! Elle Studio produced pottery between 1942 and 1967 in Torkildstranda in Drobak. Elle was lead by Tor Samuelssen.

SOLD

This Elle pottery plate is available for sale HERE!

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Garage Sales on the Back Roads of Indiana

This is downtown Metz and today is the annual Metz Road Garage Sales. I pass through Metz often and have always found everyone so very nice. You know you're in a very small rural town when everyone waves at you when you drive through. The sales were great and the people just a bit better. Rural areas always yield the most interesting finds and sometimes unexpected ones. I was lucky enough to find an old record player, a funky railroad lamp and New Orleans glassware. Then it was off to the annual Crooked Lake Garage Sales where I found a cute retro set of barware glasses with golfers on them, a Staffordshire mug, Elle Pottery plate and a nice pyrex dish. There were some other goodies as you can see in the photo. Now it's time to kick back and enjoy the afternoon in the sun. I'll sort this out on Monday.





Friday, June 24, 2011

Libbey Cocktail Glassware 1962 "Jewels"

I found these two glasses and thought I'd never in a million years be able to identify them. The only thing I was hoping for was maybe a manufacturer. Sometimes it's just about going to the right place and that place was MODish. This morning I posted this image on my blog there and by this evening I had a great lead.


Their post lead me to Libbey's historical section of their website and I just guessed a year and ta da it's on page 20 of this catalog.