Great weekend show!

Sorry for the lack of posts.  We've been very busy lately - not too much in the realm of picking but we did a great show this past weekend!  We set up a table at the "Best in Show" Animal Rescue Car, Truck, and Motorcycle fundraising event.  Met some great people, awesome dogs, and saw some great cars!  We brought a bunch of gas/oil stuff and got some beautiful pictures thanks to photographers Peter Marzano and Russ Vandermeir!

In other news, we've done some major re-arranging at our booth in Palatine.  Come by and visit!  Also, we are really looking forward to getting back to the outdoor market at Allstate arena so rain or shine, we will be there!

One other thing, we are trying to make some more room and have decided to move away from furniture (too big of a task for us apartment dwellers) so we listed a few great mid century pieces on craigslist.  We have 3 Salton hotray wood warming/tea carts with acrylic domes (asking $80 each obo), an orange eames style plycraft lounge chair (asking $100 obo), a beautiful orange vinyl baumritter chair (asking $250 obo), a pair of tiki cane/bamboo swivel chairs (asking $75 for the pair obo, and a pair of redwood folding aluminum lawn chairs (asking $50 obo).  If anyone is interested, let us know!

Full load in indiana!

Lots of cool stuff today! A trunk load of a few different styles of tiller wheels, a load of deer antler mounts, a nifty car radio display which should clean up nicely, tins, michelob beer clock lamp, box of postcards, coca cola smalls, just some all around interesting stuff! Wolff's outdoor at Allstate arena is closed for the next two weekends so be sure to come visit us at the indoor market in palatine!

Pick of the day!

We found this amazing Masonic piece dated 1929. Its a very unique ashtray.. but better yet its a brazier, ember bowl, komfoor, or also known as an antique pipe lighter. Embers would be held in the top chamber and used to light a cigar or pipe. It could be removed and easily passed around. Too cool!

Heading west

Tried a little something different today and went out west.  Ended up with a couple cool finds, definitely worth the trip.  We picked up a couple of turn of the century funeral and memorial pictures, wrought iron cross grave floral markers, a great industrial drafting chair, couple of cans, nifty lamps, sods crate turned into a basket, early sewing patterns (30's-50's), and a few other bits and bobs. Quality over quantity today.  Cool stuff!

Neat stuff this week!

Traveled a bit this week and came across some killer stuff! Picked up 11 gas pump nozzles, some new old stock.   A few light up signs, a crap ton of vintage/antique tools, lots of advertising tins and cans, an old drawer pull hardware display, a stack of pin up photography magazines, more lamps, industrial stools, a couple old school clocks... lots more! I took some crappy pictures but enough go get the jist of it all. Visit us this weekend to sift through all the new loot!

Finally made it back to indiana!

Sorry for the hiatus in posts. We've been busy working on fixing and listing all the stuff we have and not buying as much.

But today we made the trek to Indiana and got quite the haul!  A whole trunk full of nifty metal spiked tiller wheels, industrial stool, neat articulating floor lamp, a Napa display, tools, dairy box, and a whole lot of other odds and ends.  We will take some better pictures later.

Busy busy busy

What a past few days we've had! Spent yesterday up north and found a lot of great stuff. Lots and lots of primitives and tools.
Today we had the opportunity to pick a warehouse.  Lots of automotive, old hardware store stuff, antiques, and just, stuff!  Today was more of a "surface pick" than anything.  There were Saran wrapped pallets of boxes of stuff - a whole room full!  Really looking forward to going back and seeing what else gets uncovered!  We ended up with some beautiful antique tin ceiling tiles (super rusty crusty - but thats the way we like it), Pepsi crate, some industrial stools, really tall oilers, and more!
One of the most interesting things we found today was a tub full of old wooden molds.  The owner said that they were antique engine molds.  We didn't buy them, but if anyone knows anything about such things or has any interest, let us know! 

We bought so much this week that it will probably be coming into our booth over the next two weekends.  Were planning to sell outdoor on Sunday, too!  Sunday is scotts birthday, so discounts given for those who bring donuts. Or coffee.