Featured Finds Thread

Hi Brad,
I sold a Bissell sweeper with the logo for 55 bucks last year.
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Thanks! I found one on liveauctioneers that sold for $50 that was about in the same shape as mine but missing the handle. I imagine I will stick this on ebay but haven't really decided yet.

 

Hi Guys, I use a paper plate and photograph jewelry in slight shade on my porch . Can be done under a tree, too. The only thing that I have issues with is gold jewelry that curves, can't do that too well. All my jewelry is photographed this way. Hope that tip helps!

 

Brad, I would love to go to your auction house and sweep up all the midcentury for a steal! Wow! It goes for a lot of money where I'm at.

 

I am loving all the jewelry, Brad! And Nuffsaid, the purple piece is lovely.

 

@Marko, thank you!

@Cheryl, this piece appears to have some age. I was able to find its twin here: http://www.koblenzestatejewelry.com/detail.php?itm=421

@Brad, nice finds as always.

 

It's a classic Alaskan Tlingit pole design.
They were all the rage at one time in the early 1900's, but they made zillions of em. Some better....like yours & some worse like mine.
Still, I wouldn't put any stock in the jewelers price of $115

 

Ran across this Griswold 701 frying pan and lid in the basement today. I bought this a few weeks ago and promptly forgot about it. It was $6.00 at the thrift store. Looks like it is a $100.00 + item on ebay. It always kills me how this kind of stuff can garner such interest. I knew it had some value but really didn't know to what extent.

 

I've heard Griswold is very collectible - good luck with it!

 

Brad, I don't if you have the space to do this but it works great. Cleaning cast iron with electrolysis. It makes the pans look like new and they sell much higher.

I use the small charger that I use for my deep cell marine battery, tinfoil and clamps from the dollars store and a broom handle to hang over a 5 gallon bucket with florist wire and an S hook.

In this video the guy was using a piece of steel but tinfoil works great and it was so cheap, I lined the entire bucket so I didn't have to turn the pan around for another two hours.

 

My late Stepmom was Aleut/French and born and raised in Ak. Thats where my Dad met her. ANyway she gave me a totempole pin and lots of sterling and hemitite jewelry,also my Dad gave me a beautiful ring. I had them in a jewelry box on my dresser with costume stuff.

When I had my home invasion the crooks took it all My expensive stuff was in a hidden safe but the items stolen meant more to me and very sentimental.

 

Thanks for the tip. I've heard of this but have never tried it. I don't have a battery charger that works any more or would give it a try. I think I'll just list it as-is and see what happens.

I don't care enough about old cast iron cookware to get in to the ins and outs of selling it. I pick up Griswold when I can at reasonable prices and have always made money at it. It amuses me that one pan with a certain kind of lettering and a smoke ring is worth more than some other configuration. They are all just old pans to me.

I know that the details of items often make a difference in collectability and value. This is true across many fields of collectibles. However, it always seems to me that something gets lost in the intrinsic value and appreciation of the item when the focus is on the minutia.

 

The more you say the more interesting you get !!! LOL...

Aleut......Aleut??........basket weaving....ya got any baskets ???????

 

@Brad - I have a Griswold #7, but it's not in that kind of shape. It's been used so much the name is half worn off the bottom. Great-grandpa is said to have hauled that thing all over Colorado in a saddlebag. It's still rust-free and cooks just fine, so I'm still using it. The more you use cast iron, the better it gets. Maybe that's why people want the old ones.

 

I had my moms old cast iron skillet in my yard sale.
A young guy picked it up, bargained me down, an bought it for a song.
His Hottie girlfriend turned to me and said" he's a Chef, & just stole that off you !! "
Mom knew her cooking stuff !!

 

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I understand the intrinsic and useful value of these pans but does a #701 with large block letters and a smoke ring cook any better than a #701H with small letters and a flat bottom? There is about $60.00 difference in the value between these two pans ........

 

I'll have to agree with Komokwa on the totem; so many of these were made that only the exceptional ones would have a lot of value.

 

The new help at the local thrift are the type that couldn't cut it at McDonald's

They always break up sets.

Flatware sets are put in bags of five or six pieces. At the end of the week there's hundreds of bags of dinner knives only. Surely they would have done better selling complete sets.

Tea sets are always priced by individual pieces. Someone buys the coffee pot and the rest sits.

I always check backgammon cases,usually price around $15
, only to find them empty.

 

aren't those bakelite pieces ?