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<p>[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9877801, member: 36"]<a href="https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Bloomfield/06002/4196772" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Bloomfield/06002/4196772" rel="nofollow">https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Bloomfield/06002/4196772</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This was the second one. Working class neighborhood, two bedroom house with outer stairs in poor repair. I wasn't holding out much hope and went there second. Spent $15 on four pieces of Indonesian batik. The homeowners were teachers at my high school. The clock was the only good thing I saw in the photos, and gone when I got there. They had over $100 on the brass flatware, but it was in scrap metal condition. Water damage. $15 on the brass hunting dog bookends (couldn't lift them - over my weight limit) ..but $40 on the Murano bowl that brings about that retail. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Farmington/06032/4191978" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Farmington/06032/4191978" rel="nofollow">https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Farmington/06032/4191978</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The advertised jewelry, so I made sure to get there early. Spent $15, so barely worth the effort. The person running the sale took out all the good stuff before the sale , I think. Spent $5 I shouldn't have on two rings that turned out to be OK costume, but that's it. It was all outside; I got there well before it started and the line was minimal. Closer to me I'd have been number 15 in line, but at this I was first...for all the good it did. The dealers all bailed on this one - all went to another town, or knew something I didn't. The sale was a fundraiser in memory of a police officer and a K9 officer, otherwise I wouldn't have been there at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>They had a little Wedgwood dish with an $8 price tag. Not horrible, but I wasn't paying it. (not after scoring a white body pitcher, absconded with by my sister, for a whole dollar I wasn't.) I think again at this sale that anything good was gone before we punters were allowed in.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="evelyb30, post: 9877801, member: 36"][URL]https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Bloomfield/06002/4196772[/URL] This was the second one. Working class neighborhood, two bedroom house with outer stairs in poor repair. I wasn't holding out much hope and went there second. Spent $15 on four pieces of Indonesian batik. The homeowners were teachers at my high school. The clock was the only good thing I saw in the photos, and gone when I got there. They had over $100 on the brass flatware, but it was in scrap metal condition. Water damage. $15 on the brass hunting dog bookends (couldn't lift them - over my weight limit) ..but $40 on the Murano bowl that brings about that retail. [URL]https://www.estatesales.net/CT/Farmington/06032/4191978[/URL] The advertised jewelry, so I made sure to get there early. Spent $15, so barely worth the effort. The person running the sale took out all the good stuff before the sale , I think. Spent $5 I shouldn't have on two rings that turned out to be OK costume, but that's it. It was all outside; I got there well before it started and the line was minimal. Closer to me I'd have been number 15 in line, but at this I was first...for all the good it did. The dealers all bailed on this one - all went to another town, or knew something I didn't. The sale was a fundraiser in memory of a police officer and a K9 officer, otherwise I wouldn't have been there at all. They had a little Wedgwood dish with an $8 price tag. Not horrible, but I wasn't paying it. (not after scoring a white body pitcher, absconded with by my sister, for a whole dollar I wasn't.) I think again at this sale that anything good was gone before we punters were allowed in.[/QUOTE]
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