Treasure Hunting at an Estate Sale! | Uncovering Vintage Finds in a 1940s Home
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- A surprise trip to a northern city results in an invitation to comb an entire house for treasures! Join me as I go in cold to a house I’ve never seen and ferret out antique and vintage to buy and sell.
You see how I approach a fresh house, and what catches my eye as we play find and seek through its two stories and basement. It’s a typical 1940s home with a 40-year accumulation, so I highlight everything I see that stands out for its age, then wrap up with a short “haul video” of my selections! Since this video is about resale shopping at an estate, I talk more extensively about what I spend and hope to make on what I’m buying and reselling.
Greeted with a buy-worthy mirror just inside the door, I get excited about the prospects, ultimately spending $500 (and hoping to at least double my money)! A 1920s tiled table, painted French dresser jars and a hard-to-find original 1930s Fiesta console set leap out from the assorted and unsorted.
How do you tell a Mexican table from American? Should I buy Florence figurines, or Studio Nova? Which cute dogs are the ones worth buying? What makes one yellow step stool better than the next? I try to inform as I shop, explaining what I see in the marketplace that makes me take one item over the next (and why I’m passing up great reselling opportunities on newer items). I also give a grave warning to the wise about a particular type of antique fire extinguisher.
A spooky looking basement offers a weird medical device, sparkling shoes and a tunnel of tools, while upstairs reveals boudoir finds, barware and one of the cutest anthropomorphic dog prints ever! The cameraman has a strange encounter with piano figurines, while I play show-and-tell with my finds. We leave no stone unturned and go home happy while helping out a friend.
I hope my review of shopping an estate sale helps you learn more about antique and vintage items, inspires your own estate sale digging and educates you about how I pick for reselling! I’m happy to be sharing my real world vintage encounters with the online community, I love sharing our passion and hope we will all help each other with our antique education.
Here’s some more of what I find:
French needlepoint chairs, 1950s modernist lamps, factice, 1920s-1950s American furniture, 1940s end tables, beer tankards and steins, funky 1990s studio art pottery and glass, English applied floral ware, Italian decanter set, elegant glass, Blue Mountain fish, Stanley planes, Alaskana, mid-century modern glass, vintage lighting, Winhold Reiss indian prints, bird mirror, oscilloscope
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I really like the green fiestaware, it looks very nice on the white tier cart. Oh that was scary when you said you were in the house by yourself at night 😯😲😱💫
I'm an old hippie broad in a wheelchair and I am on RUclips most of my day. I've recently subscribed to your channel. I'm working on watching your videos. You're very knowledgeable and I enjoy them greatly. ☮️
That's great! I'm really glad you discovered my channel. I'm sorry you can't get around so well but I'm glad to bring this world to you. Hippies are awesome, by the way.
Your knowledge amazes me!
Well thanks! I am so happy to get to share it
I read that the painter of the dogs in a bar o a restorant were made to entertained someone that was ill.
that's interesting!! if you happen to recall where you saw that I'd love to read it
love the bar hound picture
Me too! I collect bar ware and haven’t let it go so far
So glad I found you. I've been following another reseller for a little while, but I find her repeating a lot of the same limited information, and she's a little too giggly for my taste. This is for sure more my cup of tea. Very informative, very no nonsense.
Well thank you, my whole reason for doing the channel is to try to inform and expand everyone's interest in these cool old things! I look forward to seeing you in future comments
Crystal Farley, I might know who you're referring to, and I couldn't agree more. This is more my cup of tea as well.
"Birds, Butterflies,... things that fly. You still got it George!!! Love you!
Oh my gosh - what fun!
Oh it was and I can't wait for more
Oh my, my! 😱 So glad you lived to tell about being shocked! Wow! Bananas!
I love the narrator/cameraman towards the end! 😆🤣 Too funny! 😆
Thanks again for an extremely noteworthy video! 👌🏽
💜Maddy
He was funny! And yes, I'm glad I lived to tell that tale as well!
Thanks for being such a WEALTH of knowledge! :) I'm learning so much from you about all things vintage and antique! I love old things and the history behind them!
You are so welcome! I feel the same way. We'll keep exploring together then!
There was a day (as a teen) I made front of my parents for watching antique road show. Then there was a day (as a mother) that I made fun of (not out loud) my daughter for watching other children opening toys and talking about them. Well here it has come full circle, sitting here watching and learning about vintage and antique and listening to you about what toys you collect like barware etc. I love watching.
Even more full circle that I didn't realize I was 3 years late,lol
Mrs Doubtfire. LOL. ⭐️
Dilly Dander yes my friend has an odd sense of humor
I really enjoyed the video especially the scroll along the bottom telling us price you paid and what it sold for.
I try to do that when appropriate, it doesn't work on every video I do but I like to share info when I can
The Japanese metal vase you said is cloisonné is actually a technique called Champlevé... both enameled but different process ;) I found one in the wild!
Imma brand new subscriber, and the 900th like ‘r. Enjoyed your show with Dom tonight! Thanks for sharing your wisdom!
Welcome aboard! Really cool that you found me, I sure enjoyed talking with him too. Thanks for the sub and we'll see you in comments and chat!
Oh, oh, that crystal candlabra is gorgeous!
Thank you for adding the comp prices!!!!!
I try when I can! Sometimes it's relevant (when I'm shopping), sometimes it's more about the objects and identification
I love ❤️love ❤️ the cactus 🌵 bookends and the lamp with the lady
OMG!! Jocelyn’s video from today (2/26/23) has the jadeite bowl that goes with the beaters!! I know it’s 3 years apart but I’ve learned so much that I could put it together!! Lol!!❤️
LOL Mrs Doubtfire . My favorite movie to watch whenever I felt/feel down. Thank you for your always informative videos.
My friend is a real card lol
I found it funny that you said you needed your jewelers loop to look at the silver mirror and brush when there was one sitting on the dresser mirror!! (at 30:55)
That's so funny! I had to go back and watch it. It's amazing when you're in an estate sale you didn't prep how you can overlook things that are right there in front of you, it's like playing that old Concentration card game where you had to remember where cards were in a matrix
You're the Tim Gunn of antiques! 😍😃
I watched this entire video. It was a FUN watch...Also, I was amazed that the owner just gave you the keys to get first dibs on this Estate Sale. Lucky guy, George!.. ..Anyhow, those NESTING TABLES do sell pretty well because people like them for smaller homes or apartments. I love to cook so I would be very excited to go through that kitchen. Looks like there are some good finds in that kitchen. Also, I liked that black Scottie porcelain figurine (the larger one).PS= Loved that older GREEN Fiesta set!
I was so fortunate! The owner is a personal friend who's shopped at our estate sales for years, so she just trusts me implicitly (and vice-versa). I do love the nesting tables, they didn't last long. A reseller or cook would've done well in that kitchen, but I was especially happy to come out with the Fiesta!
New sub here.
I find you interesting..
intelligent...and very articulate! Thank you!
It's very refreshing!
That's very kind of you! I'm glad you found me, please tell your friends and we'll see you with new footage on Wednesday
Very enjoyable. Thank you for filming this. I had a nice time and never left my house!
Thank you, Scott! Perhaps someday we'll be able to go to one in your neck of the woods. I watch and enjoy your videos more than I comment, I enjoy and share a lot of your tastes and your production values are really good
Sure sure! There are some awesome antique hot spots in PA I’m sure you know! Come to the Quaker state soon!
Oh man wish I could find those cacti bookends near me. So cool. Great pieces.
They are! I'm sorry to say they sold right away, but I'll think of you if I find more
That lamp is fiberglass shade is amazing 👍🏼
I agree! HI Libby
Great video! Thanks for taking us along!
Barbie Szpila thank you for joining! Hope you get to subscribe and join us weekly
Bellevue Hospital is a large NYC general, well known teaching hospital famous all over the world. They are NOT just a mental hospital! I went to school there and also lived near by. It was the safest I ever felt having their expertise near by. Everyone thinks of it as only a psychiatric facility because "famous" criminals frequently end up there. I feel better now.
You are absolutely right, I heard about it from my nurse friend from NYC, she wasn't exactly pleased by my oversimplification either! I was using it to annoy my friends in Bellevue, WA, which was unfair to both Bellevues...or at least, the one in NYC
DANG! I really liked that modern-ish vase you picked up and moved to see the "Bar Hounds" print. I wish you would've identified it. BTW, that fireplace looks like its surround might be Claycraft tiles! A contemporary of Batchelder. (I'm wondering when the house was built?) Thanks for the tip about the fire extinguishers; when I grew up in my Grandma's homesteaded house in OKLA there were about three of those mounted on the wall in various areas. Yikes!
A new favorite...so many wonderful things...I really loved their taste and all the things...being from Montana I loved the education on those prints for Glacier. I lived glass when more expensive so goof thought just pick a pattern you like more affordable now.
The Glacier park prints are really cool and much more authentic than anything else in their time. I remember glass being much more costly but times change
@@TheAntiqueNomad Yes they sure do (ie things prices and popularity) and that was a real joy for me to to see those prints..special..local..etc. thank you.
Wow! Great haul. I learn so much where, when, why, & worth. It’s so cool. Thank you for sharing.
You are so welcome! Please watch this Monday and Wednesday's videos, they're a little different take on a vintage haul but the result is similar
Wonderful video again. I learn so much
Holy mackerel: 80s is vintage now! I was born in 1965, so it's difficult for me to see 80s stuff as vintage.
So was I, and yes but it's true!
That crane mirror is so cool
I can't wait to get it out to sell! I had to leave it in Seattle and haven't been back because of the virus
@@TheAntiqueNomad I live in Seattle, hopefully the covid cases die down soon because I'll definitely come to your sale next time you're in town!
Fascinating. Thanks George.
Very interesting video. I’m amazed at your knowledge of all the different types of vintage and antique items. You probably get tired of hearing this but you must have a photographic memory to hold so much information. Thank you for making this amazing video. I’ve learned so much from watching your videos and appreciate your absolute wealth of knowledge. 😎
I'm so pleased, that's the idea! Thanks for watching, please subscribe and tell your friends
Seattle ? I grew up on Queen Anne Hill, blocks up from the Space Needle. Happy 60th Birthday Space Needle ! 🤗🥳👍🤙
Hey George, my son is an electrician and has told .e many tines that those old lamps with the old wires Re good to go asong as the plug part isn't cracked nor the wire frayed. I have a very, very old heavy floor lamp. Either iron or brass with holes for crystals. Has its original cord.
I agree with him! They were made properly and should work fine. I'm glad you left yours original
Lamp is gorgeous!
George don't be shy. You try on fabulous hats for us, I was waiting on you to Model the heels. 👠
Love the bar stuff
omg I love listening to your knowledge about everything!
Just watching this now. It made me smile when you mentioned the mirror you had seen at the Golden Star in Bremerton which is minutes from me and newly reopened for take out. You do get around, enjoying all your informative videos. Trying to find the videos from Poulsbo and Port Townsend.
How cool! I haven't gotten to Poulsbo and Pt. Townsend to film yet, but they are high up my list. I always liked the pork strips at Golden Star
Great information.
Glad it was helpful!
The geisha print is exactly what I want!
Well I think that's great! There are a lot of really neat Geisha and they should be more appreciated, they all have originality
This was so fun and interesting. Could listen to you and your sense of humor for ever. Oh, and Blue Mountain? I live about an hour from there. Thks for all of this!
Blue Mountain was a great pottery that sprang from humble sources!
Great video George! ❤
Love jadeite. Have a small collection. It is expensive on ebay. Not many dealers around me gave it.
I really like Jadeite as well. It's been discovered by the Japanese, American glass collectors and Martha Stewart, so there's a lot of competition
It’s a suction machine! The wrapped cardboard piece is the collection container.
Yes, that's right! I ended up selling a complete set with the lab cart for a professor of marine science who explained it all to me
Wow that "Gomco" machine really brought me back to when I first started my nursing career on a med/surg floor. It was actually a suction machine that was connected to a nasal gastric tube that continually suctioned the contents from a patient's stomach when they had a blockage in their intestines or bowel.
Interesting! I got one from a guy who used it for similar purposes at a marine biology lab. I already had the stainless lab table it went with... The set sold already though.
That was cool. Very informative.
I really enjoy your videos,thanks for teaching us all the ends and outs,happy hunting.You really got some nice treasures.
I really had fun doing this video and hope to get more opportunities like this soon
Thanks! Loved this😊
Thank you! I appreciate you coming in to watch. Please join us again, it was nice having you in chat too
Bunches of cool stuff.
Lots of great info for searching out treasures..go George !
Thanks, will do! I really have fun with it and am glad to share the experience
My fav are the cacti bookends 👍
Gerry Picker I have to admit they were a good last minute find!
I would’ve checked inside the steins for any pics in the bottom😀
You're right to check steins for secret lithophanes! Unfortunately these 1950s types didn't seem to have those
Oh thank you! That’s why I’m watching your channel and learning. Thanks so much🧚🏽♂️❤️
Green Fairy you will find them in tea sets of that era though
In your haul, I'm surprised you didn't have the Blue Glass, unless it was damaged. I've been looking for Blue Glass just because it Screams Vintage. Thnx for the great blog.
Great picks, George.
Your range of knowledge is amazing!
Well I like a lot of stuff
Great video. Just found your site. Love that lamp. Thanks for all the great information on antiques. I'm here to learn more.
Oh good! Please like, subscribe and tell your friends, I promise to try to keep showing fun and interesting things
Just found your channel. I love your voice. And this content. Love!
I really love the Fiesta wear you got! There was alot of cool stuff there. TFS Hugs!
Me too!! It's all awaiting me in my Washington state storage locker, I haven't gone back because of the virus but hope to get there in Fall
Great intro with great design at the beginning of the video!
treasures galore!! 😍
There’s plenty to go around for sure
Beautiful finds. 🦋💗🦋
Thank you! 🤗
Had to share with you what I found in the wild, today. Two bright orange vintage chalkware wall cats. $17.99 for the pair, minus 30%, because it’s “old bag” day at Value Village in Toronto, GTA.
Nice! I"m now officially able to get the old bag discount at some places too.
Love the Bewitched commentary. Lol
The Native American art is beautiful.
Enjoyed
Me too I look forward to doing more estates (and estate videos)
Halloween and Valentine's Day sometimes go together. Love your videos. I learn much from you sharing your knowledge. I love bookends too. Have colected many. Thanks!
Thanks for joining! If you're a subscriber you're bound to see more bookends. I'm sure I'm in trouble with someone over that Halloween comment!
We were at a flea market and they had those type of fire ext on a shelf. We told them exactly what you said and they didn’t give a crap. We didn’t think they were safe n a public area. Sort of scary.
Yes, there are two types, one with water and one with the bad chemical, they look similar so people think they're just water and they don't believe it. I hope nothing happens.
Glad to see you with the crew, excellent information! Blessed and safe days!
Thenk you, and you as well! I look forward to showing you more and seeing your response
They sure had stuff in their house. Enjoyed vid. Thank you. Glenda. Australia 🦘⭐️
Yes that one was packed! Thanks for watching it was fun to have you along
Love going along with you & I love the history lessons. What a great memory.👍
I’m so glad I get to have you along with me!
Lots of stuff there and some pretty cool things too. Happy digging and have a great day
I love the first tall lamp I don't collect I buy what I like
That is what all collectors should do! If you like it, you'll keep it and have pleasant things to use and enjoy
This estate had some beautiful stuff.
Lottie Ward it wasa pretty good one!!
You always make me chuckle!
Thanks
Fun and informative!
Love the lubricant can !❤
My husband said the all metal plane is called a circular and or compass plane. The gears adjust to either make a convex or concave arc in the wood. He said it is worth around $100 depending the type study. (He does wood working and collects planes) He also said it is a number 113 not 118
Thank him for that info!!i appreciate it. I did misread the number when I picked it but he was right and it did sell for $95
Had a friend recommend your channel. So glad to find this and I've subscribed. This is honestly the first "antique/vintage items video" I've seen on RUclips I've enjoyed and even learned a few things. Now on the look out for Stanley planes! As a fellow picker, we have very similar tastes, everything you considered I would have as well. Love your descriptions, What a treasure trove to be able to shop this one at night on your own! (A picker's fantasy, especially these days...) You have a great engaging way of describing things, hope you continue to post these videos.
Thank you so much! I don't often get the chance. I'm really glad you found this little Antique community and I'll try to keep finding fun content. Tell your friend thank you too
I found you from John at Nevermore Antiques. Your knowledge is amazing! I wish I had that kind of recall. I subbed and will be doing a lot of binge-watching and learning. Thanks!
Thank you!! I love speaking the language of vintage and antiques with people and I’m glad you joined
I just bought a clear glass fire extinguisher like the red comet ones. An the estate sale i bought it from had it sitting with glasses. An they were going ro put it in a plastic bag for me to take after purchase. I ran an got a small rubbermaid tub an then got bubble wrap an then took it after i wrapped it up. I got it for my brother that is a fire chief. I gave it to him for Christmas. He had the biggest grin an was so excited. Oh i only paid 18.00 for it an ut had original sticker on it.
Very cool! You were smart to wrap it so well
Great tour of a fresh estate sale. As always, an informative video. You’re on a roll!
Thank you so much for your support! I’m glad you enjoyed something different from me
The Antique Nomad I like seeing mystery and first impressions. Great job accomplished.
Rickey Donald I’m glad! It was fun to go through something off the cuff like that
I just found your channel and subscribed, I love going to estate sales!
That's great! Thanks for subscribing. We do videos about all sorts of things, from antique shows and malls to auctions and estate sales, we'll look forward to seeing you weekly!
There are a lot of Canadian and Alaskan Snow Birds in Florida. I lived in a 50+ community there and the place was deserted in summer and popping in the winter with Alaskan and Canadian snow birds
Yes there are lots of snowbirds who come to St Pete, my condo is a ghost town in summer
Fantastic vlog George! I always learn so much. Thank you for bringing us along.
Thank you for Coming along! It’s really fun to be able to bring these to you
Thank you your awesome
You too! I really appreciate you watching and having fun with me.
Awesome treasures there, thx for sharing your knowledge
Just discovered "The Antique Nomad tonight. Really appreciate all of the info that you pass along. Subscribed!!
Thank you, Mindy! I really love the real world Antique community and am discovering the same feeling with the online version, glad to share knowledge
Same here. Just discovered this via the Bunker challenge videos. Really informative and I am seeing so many objects my parents and my grandmother had in their homes.
Mary McFarland thank you Mary! I hope you'll have fun watching my other videos and hopefully will learn a lot
The lamp is great. The inlay on that table is beautiful. The die cut is lovely. I saw so many things that I would have loved to have. I love figurines. I love Santa at 37:25.
I like the floral inlays too, they were time consuming to do well
Santa was cute btw!
The wierd ivory totemic figure is called a "billiken" and is pretty common figure in Alaska.
A billiken was also a Good Luck piece made from the 1900's - 1920's in America. It kind of looks like an elf of sorts with pointed ears and slanted eyes and a pointed head. Made in ceramic, porcelain, and metal some what creepy, but I like the appeal.
Judith and Gloria, Then there's the Saint Louis University Billikens, which has a men's soccer team that my brother & I went to see at least 25 years ago. I wondered WHAT a billiken was at that time. Now, thanks to this channel & you kind folks, I know.
American Indians watercolor art is amazing.
Yes I have such respect for their Craft
Sooo much stuff. Glad you found items to sell. Enjoyed seeing everything. I am paring way down, don’t want my children to have to do a clean out.😱
A lot of people are downsizing now, but the millennials are starting to get established and some of them are getting beyond ikea sparseness
Haha ....my daughter is also asking me to clean out for cold hard cash. She doesn't want anything she is a Millennial and likes bare, bare rooms with (all) sterile white walls. She grew up with the "stuff" so she is not impressed with any of it. I hope she changes her mind in her 30's but I doubt it.
Gloria Hanes Yeah, I don’t get it. What is so interesting about plain white walls....no thoughts?? My daughter is kind of changing, and she’s the youngest at 27. But my sons(twins @ 39) houses still have an echo in every room! Ha
Hi 👋🏾 New and subscribed Great video and Thanks for sharing these videos are so Awesome 👏🏾 👏🏾
The saguaro bookends are amazing! I lived in Tucson and learned a lot about these awesome cacti! Did you know they reach as far into the ground as what you see on the top? Pretty amazing!
The NICHE Lady I went to the monument and the desert museum one weekend when I visited Tucson to shop, great town and the cactus were a sight to see!! Hope you get to see more of my videos
@@TheAntiqueNomad I'm binge watching now! ;-)
This is why the cacti can survive through a severe drought. Arizona's drought has lasted well over 25 years and with little relief in sight. This is why the price of water has more than doubled monthly, and families are requested to have desert landscape and forego grass in their front yard. A majority of the people in Arizona just have small white stones for their front yard.
Hi George looking back at some very good videos..The seventies stereo would house a nice Bar
Yes it would that’s a good repurposing idea
Had to pop by and share some love! My mom absolutely loves you and loves all the information you give. She's learned a ton from you and is teaching it to me :) Thanks so much for sharing!
Aww that's so great! I really want to share knowledge so this vintage community can grow and share our love for this cool old stuff. Thanks for watching and please tell your friends!
The Antique Nomad dont worry, we recommended you on our channel! 🖤🖤🖤
Thrift U thank you that is so kind! I'll look for more good info on your channel too
I learn so much from you😊
I'm so glad!