My estate sale Friday was actually Thursday this week as I headed out to a sale yesterday. I was #4 to get in the sale.WAHOOO! I had signed up the day before at noon when the list went out. It was one of the better sales that I had been to in quite awhile!
A whole table full of goodies to share with you.
11 packs of old playing cards with great graphics. Mostly dogs and cats, but a horse and an elephant deck sprinkled in as well. I use these in jewelry boxes that I make.
Two boxes of a game called "Game of Sentences" copyright 1940. Basically little cards with a a phrase printed on it...you try and make sentences. The colors of the cards are great and the aome of the phrases are quite peculiar.like: The lazy alligator, Peter and Mae. A cross-eyed mosquito. A Two Year Old Donut. A foolish mermaid.
I do love Halloween. This old box has great graphics and I will display it during the holiday. I also love the tiny Dennison stickers of the jack-o-lantern heads. Really cool.
A couple of old Christmas boxes (great graphics) and a bunch of vintage stickers.
The sale had alot of old boxes with great pictures. I either use them for display during the holidays or storage. I found it quite peculiar that the two candy boxes I found still had all the original chocolate papers intact.
When I eat a chocolate I take the paper as well...I've never left it in the box. Even the original wax paper liner that covered all the chocolates was in the box.
Cardboard spools of old ribbons (to use for a base for my spun figures), some teeny-tiny brown paper bags and a box of chalk. (surprise, I have a chalk box collection)
Good Christmas finds. Old bottle-brush wreaths, the really old heavy tinsel, cardboard bells with mercury glass garland, tiny ornaments and about 45 Christmas light reflectors.
Oh, and this adorable tiny tree (marked Japan on the bottom) There are mercury glass beads between each tree layer. I haven't see one like this before.
The girl blowing the noisemaker on the cover of the Party book is adorable. Also three award ribbons - will work them into a project later this week.
And last but not least this sweet little pin with the name "Ethel" on a mother of pearl back (which is cracked) I may try and add the word "Magpie" to it somehow. It seemed like a fitting last find of a very good sale.
Have a great weekend.
I can't get over how much good paper stuff you find! That Butterfinger Halloween box, + the Dennison stickers, + the Christmas stickers, + the candy boxes!!! I am so jealous. You really had a great day.
Posted by: Mary | April 24, 2009 at 06:18 PM
Ethel,
Good thing I was digging in the dirt for money today or there would have been a bitchfight on somebody's porch. I felt a little ill (trying to be happy for you) while I was reading your post. That was a freaking bonanza!
Dot
Posted by: One Gal's Trash | April 24, 2009 at 07:48 PM
I can't believe all the goodies you found...It was like you were on a treasure hunt and you hit the mother load of treasures...I love the cairn terrier playing cards...they remind me of my two little guys Toby & Wheezer...well here's to more happy hunting...have a honey of a night - sweet dreams! Marlene :O)
Posted by: Marlene Haveron | April 24, 2009 at 08:50 PM
Holy Moly!~~~You hit the jackpot, girl! The pin is just kismet!~~XXOO, Beth
Posted by: Elizabeth Holcombe | April 25, 2009 at 02:43 AM
Lucky you!! I didn't get anything:(
Posted by: April | April 25, 2009 at 05:34 AM
I love everything you bought - the candy boxes are fab, the old graphics on the Christmas items are wonderful! We share a love of a lot of things, chalk boxes only being one of a billion or so.... ;o) I am starting a birthday candle collection since I saw your big jar full. I have three or four boxes, but now I need, oh fifty more!
Posted by: Shara | April 25, 2009 at 08:01 AM
You hit the jackpot at this one! LOVE everything you invested in! I cannot pick a favorite find from your "loot". Great eye chick!
Posted by: Kelli | April 25, 2009 at 09:19 AM
Don't you feel like you were meant to be there?! It's all great stuff that you found, but that pin? You were supposed to find that. You must have had such a big grin on your face that people looked at you funny!
Posted by: Carol | April 25, 2009 at 09:52 AM
Wow - What a truly fabulous haul!! I still DREAM of finding a sale like that one day!
Posted by: HeidiAnn | April 25, 2009 at 10:32 AM
Yay!! Look at all of those goodies! I can't believe you found a pin named Ethel! Clearly meant to be! Love the old playing cards. Hopefully this will be the first of many great sales you hit this season!!
Posted by: Kim G. | April 25, 2009 at 10:52 AM
You found so many awesome things! Congrats! I once found that exact "Ethel" pin only it said Elsie! Elsie was the name of my Great Aunt who was like another Grandma too me.
Posted by: Mermaid Debbie | April 25, 2009 at 11:34 AM
I just can't believe the Ethel pin. That sale was meant to be for you- for sure! Great, great finds.
Posted by: Kim | April 27, 2009 at 10:08 AM
Oooooooooooo ~ I'm lovin' those Christmas boxes/stickers, and of course the little tree!
:)
~Becca~
Posted by: Becca | April 27, 2009 at 12:09 PM
That sale would have made me very happy, too!
Posted by: barbara | April 27, 2009 at 02:00 PM
Just remind yourself of this sale every time you go to a crappy one. Great stuff!
Posted by: Linda | April 29, 2009 at 04:14 AM
Dohhh.....that harvest made my heart swoon.....-Amy
Posted by: madjoy22 | April 30, 2009 at 08:11 PM
The Ethel pin is so awesome. I think you should just add a black magpie bird image - then turn it into one of your logos. If your blog header wasn't so cute already, I'd say photograph that pin use it! I got a pin like that when I was little at the State fair. I couldn't believe someone had the skill to create a name that way.
Posted by: monica kaul | April 30, 2009 at 10:09 PM