Some recent garage sale finds

[Delmonico]

I hit garages sales on the way to work a lot of times, I just leave an hour or so early and head off to work and just watch my time and the signs.  I now have a real place to really work on my gear, recently my wife and I bought a house, I guess it isn't quite what I wanted since it was built in 1900, so it's not a Pre-1900 house.

Anyway I'm still setting things up, but I'll have a very nice work space in the basement and a one stall garage for storage.  The only thing that has to be in there besides my gear is a lawn mower and some garden tools. 

The winter is going to be spent sorting a lot of garage sale thrift store items and building wood boxes, refinishing things and all that good stuff.  I've been also getting some nice hand tools to do wood work with.

Anyway my wife all by herself with no advice from me found me these this weekend.

Cast iron kitchen match container for the side of my new improved cupboard (still being planned)



A tin biscuit cutter maked Rumford for the brand of baking powder, my second one so now one for home use, one for camp use.



It needs a little glueing but she found this nice chair for $3:



It's not as cool as my recent $5 find but needs far less work:



And just finished this week, a box for dish towels, apronns and other assorted and related items.  This was a packing crate marked free at a garage sale plus a lot of work and some of my scrap lumber and some garage sale hinges.

[Tascosa Joe]

Your $5 chair matches our everyday dining room chairs.  We have an old house similar in age to yours with a formal dining room.  Most of the stuff in it is Eastlake.  The Eastlake chairs are too low, so we have a set similiar to your single for everyday.

[Tascosa Joe]

Forgot to say AWESOME on the match holder and biscuit cutter.

[Cliff Fendley]

Awesome finds, I especially like that match holder.

I've got a set of six chairs somewhat like the bottom one that belonged to my great, great, grandmother. My grandfather redid them when I was a kid but they are very loose again and some of the parts are broken. We use a couple of them but I wont let anyone sit it the others until I get a chance to do some repair, they are on my long to do list.

[Delmonico]

Awesome finds, I especially like that match holder.

I've got a set of six chairs somewhat like the bottom one that belonged to my great, great, grandmother. My grandfather redid them when I was a kid but they are very loose again and some of the parts are broken. We use a couple of them but I wont let anyone sit it the others until I get a chance to do some repair, they are on my long to do list.

Well there is no problem with that style being correct, this picture from 1886 by Solomon Butcher has one:

[pony express]

Interesting photo, Del...It appears that they have a left handed Hawken style rifle leaning behind him. I thought maybe the photo was reversed, but he's holding the knife in his right hand. Maybe the photo is reversed AND the man is left handed?

Also, what about the small glass sitting beside the coffee pot? It looks kind of like a modern plastic tumbler, if made of glass, it doesn't look like the glass in the lamp. Maybe tin?

[Delmonico]

Someone years ago said it is most likely a sigle-shot shotgun with a left handed lock.  I guess some were made to sell cheaper after the double barrel muzzle loaders lost out in popularity.  Single shot shotguns held on a lot longer than double barrle ones because of cost.  Seems those willing to spend extra decided on breech loaders.  The real clue to the picture not being reversed is the buttons on the shirt.

I've always guessed the glass was acid etched like those windows with pictures on them that were so popular, I've seen glasses like that.

Then we have the bed with the round head drawn nails in it, also more common on that type of nails than many of us have been lead to believe.  I've found some from that period or slightly later, the heads are not perfectly round though.

[pony express]

Probably is a shotgun, now that I look again the barrell seems round, not octaganal. Didn't think about the shirt buttons, though, that's a good way to be sure it's not reversed.

Edit: I've got a house full of the modern version of chairs like that, don't know about the old ones, but these new ones get wobbly real fast, only have 2 or 3 still fit to sit on out of 8.

[Professor Marvel]

Ah My Dear Del -

If flea markets count, Prof Marvel scored big today. I passed up a lot of overpriced wood planes, including a wood-body one, but I came across a gent who used to have a black powder shop but lost his lease well over 15 years ago and everything went into storage ... until he had time to get to it today :-)

a pair of Wahmaker rear buckle striped pants and Sculley fancy vest ( for the professor's stage show) at an obscene discount, and 4 vintage old stock GRRW  barrels at $40 each:
42" .40 cal 7/8 across the flats
42" .58 cal 1 1/8 across the flats
2 @ 30" .54 cal 1 across the flats already breached.

needless to say we exchanged phone numbers.

yhs
prof marvel

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

For $5 I just got a bronze Winchester rider statue.  Not very useful, but a great dust catcher as I own a good bunch of original Winchesters and a couple of replicas.

[Professor Marvel]

For $5 I just got a bronze Winchester rider statue.  Not very useful, but a great dust catcher as I own a good bunch of original Winchesters and a couple of replicas.

But Sir Charles if it's really Bronze, then, I mean, that's worth bronze!
(whoa that's ... um... redundant. )