Featured Finds Thread

The finds this weekend were dolls. I found many single Barbies, modern, and Disney items, deboxed and played with, that do well online. I also found too very nice Barbies in boxes for just $2, should have bought more. My best finds were these.

The dolls in the case have a short story. The guy had the case out, all beat up, and the Tina Cassini brunette along with the TNT Barbie head/Francie body doll. All of that was $15. I asked him if he had any more dolls, and he rooted around and found my Truly Scrumptious. She had blue all over her face, and I didn't know if it would come off, so he gave her to me for $8. The blue did come off with just water.

I have always wanted a Truly Scrumptious doll. My mother said I was too old to play with dolls at age 11 and I never got her. She is from 1969.

Her face paint is very good. I love how her one eyebrow is different.

Then I walked down a row where hardly anyone was set up. I picked up the little redhead doll and saw the words American Girl, and then I saw the blonde. The guy only wanted $5 for both. These are American Girl Well Wishes dolls, and on their website they go for $60 each NIB. The little redhead is limited, and the blonde is on back order now. I guess they are something new in the line; they are smaller, maybe for little girls because they are easier to handle and play with.


Oops. These are Wellie Wishers. The redhead is not limited. Link for reference in case you see them around.
https://www.americangirl.com/shop/c/welliewishers

And as I was leaving, I saw a box on the ground. It had this silver plate set in it. Even though it has issues, I thought it was too beautiful to leave behind for $10.

 

As a native (born in Cincinnati) Ohioan, this makes me happy!

 

Glad you liked it!

It is a beautiful city with a lot of history. Here is another of my Cincinnati OH postcards.

 

WKRP broadcast from that, right? (there's no emoji for dropped turkeys)

That would be a bit of a ...bear ... or a ... sticky wicket.... (ducking now)

 

OMG!!!!! I thought that I was the only one who remembered the WKRP turkey giveaway

 

Yep. Both Cincinnati's early television and radio stations used to be a big deal, largely due to Powel Crosley Jr. and his Crosley Radio Corporation. Not many people know the name these days but he was an important industrialist in his time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powel_Crosley_Jr.

 

Added some more postcards over the weekend in addition to the baseball stadium card I posted on Sunday. See the latest post in the below thread for additional new additions.

Share Your Vintage Postcards Here!
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/share-your-vintage-postcards-here.14260/page-18

 

To me it's an old car manufacturer, but I seem to remember hearing it associated with radios too.

 

$avers gave it up today. The candle holders on the right are Randahl Shop, the ones on the left are German 800 and the hammered bowl is Alvin, all for under $16.

 

They gotta change their name to...Annunds Honey Hole !!!!!

Good eye !!

 

Amazing!

 

Sounds like a shop on Christopher St., Manhattan.

 

SCORE!!!! I love it when a thrift shop has no clue, or the guy who did was asleep at the switch.

 

Thrift find for me this week, creamer, sugar, tea and coffee pots, all 800 silver for $7.00, 1959 grams

 

Yes, at the corner of Gay st.

 

Nice Haul!

 

wow, greats scores anund and Marie

lol komokwa

 

AMAZING!

 

WOWZER!

 

Picked up a piece of a Havdalah set yesterday. I had to go past the Ill WIll again today after dropping something off for a friend... and there sat another piece. Silver over glass. Two bucks. A friend is getting it sooner or later.