look what i got: day 1

  
  

look for wheat and avocado, they were popular 70s colors.

HEISEY PLATE: I also was looking at dishes. a good tip is to look for avocado or wheat colored things. that means its 70s.  i saw an amber colored plate and thought it could be depression glass. a lot of it is amber, it seems like. always look for hallmarks. i turned the plate over and the tiny hallmarks was a the letter H inside a diamond <h> like that. i googled it on my smart phone and found out its HEISEY GLASS. semi-valuable. further research i discovered its not depression glass, its called ELEGANT GLASS and is slightly more valuable. i couldn't find an exact match but here is a close match of the plate. it cost me 1$ and eBay values it around 12$.

Hoosier & Co. vase next to 

blue Keramos Pitcher.

KERAMOS PITCHER: I saw this cerulean pot for sale for a few weeks and i liked it but it was priced at 22$ which was too much,then after a while it got reduced to half off. so for 11$ i took a risk. its worth 15$.
HOOSIER & CO. VASE: My green Hoosier & Co. vase cost only .25 cents. i think its ugly-pretty. its worth about 10$.

The moon-phase and planting-time 
features make this clock interesting.

BURPEE CLOCK:  Burpee seed planting clock from the 1970s when it was a promotional item. It's box'ey like a stereo speaker. Not flat. it tells the time, phase of the moon, and what seeds are plant-able that month. i paid 3$. I've had offers to sell it for 50$ but I'm keeping it.

This lamp is 
wired to
accept 
3-way bulbs.

1950s FLOOR LAMP: Ive had good luck finding furniture. i found a floor lamp for only 10$. it works.. kind of. the light comes on.. but then starts flickering and buzzing. so i have not been using it. i am near a lamp store that sells kits to rewire lamps. I've done it before. it only costs 15$. that is my plan with this lamp. i think its from the 1950s. the shade is really cool glass.

The removable glass insert makes this easy to clean..

1950S BUTTER DISH: i don't eat butter but i like butter dishes here is a tip make sure you get a butter dish with a handle on the top. i got a glass butter dish was all glass and had no handle and after using it a few times it would get greasy and you could not lift the lid off. your hands slid off with no handle to grasp. greasy glass with no handle doesn't work. i found this butter dish its stainless steel and has a glass insert inside the butter rests on. its from the 50s i think and i paid 1$

Wire bail cheese crock next to Nyform troll.

NYFORM TROLL: I was at a thrift store and i picked up a troll figurine. some woman descended upon me and politely tried to get it off me. never do that to someone. it will make them want it if they didn't want it before. just follow them around the store till they put what you want back down. if you act like its good, you will lose it to them. so this lady wanted my troll and i said no sorry. with smart phone research i discovered it is called NYFORM TROLL DOLL from Norway.  I paid 12$ for this;  they retail around 50-75$. mine is #171 model.
70's WIRE CROCK SET: today i got 2 crocks or canisters. i hadn't known the name of them but a search on eBay showed they are cheese crocks with a wire bail. i had a set in the 1970s and broke them. i paid 1$ for the small one and 2$ for the larger one. these sell for about what i paid for them on eBay. i think ill keep them. ill use them to keep fish food in. it will look better than a plastic bottle of fish food sitting out. the larger one ill use to keep my sage sticks that i burn to drive evil spirits away.

TOURIST COIN PURSE: I collect coin purses.

In this, I keep bus coins and an extra battery for my cellphone.

Here is one i bought for .25 cents at a thrift shop.







ALIEN NECKLACE: I'm into the Sid & Marty Croft tv series land of the lost. from the 70s. it was my ambition to make an alien concept necklace that enic the friendly sleestak altrusian- would have been proud of-. good for opening dimension doors or summoning the mother-ship. it has real quartz crystals, one herkimer diamond, and a citrine.

The gemstones are real

For only .50 cents its worry-free to use.

MISMATCH PLATE: here is a plate i got for .50 cents. it has no hallmark but i liked it. i prefer to eat and drink with mismatch plates,cups,and glasses of patterns that i like rather than have one uniform matching set.


ZOMBIE AUTOMATON: my main interest in life are zombies CVS pharmacy has a zombie automaton for sale for 20$ my local CVS was out so i ordered it online it cost 30$ after shipping. i have an extra one still in the box unopened if you want to buy it from me. i got a 2nd one by mistake. Here is the one i have opened and am keeping its eyes light up and it waves its arms around and groans.

 

FEDERAL CO. PEPPER SHAKER: I bought a brown-capped FEDERAL CO. pepper shaker for 1$. its from the 1970s. a matching set with a salt shaker would be worth 30$. i don't know the value of a single pepper shaker. maybe 10$? I'm keeping this one because i use a lot of different kinds of pepper. this one holds nicely in the hand and is good for peppering a large area while-cooking.

Large pepper shakers in glass are nice

70s GEMCO ORANGE JUICER: I bought this for 1$. its a 1970s GemCo. orange reamer-juicer. it works really well. can you see the pointy dimple at the top? newer juicers dont have that. its important because it kind of "stabs" the orange in the center and the juice flows forth much more readily. its these type of little details in products that can change the value and usefulness dramatically. the glass is that heavy thick glass like old milk bottles. the top unscrews so you can drink the juice right from there, our you can pour it into another glass using the spout.

VINTAGE GE CLOCK:  Model #2163
Its avocado green so I would say 1970s?
I can not find any information on it, despite
knowing the Maker and Model #.
I paid $2 for it. I found a similar but not identical clock on ebay going for $35
Mine is nicer. I'm keeping it. I's marvelous.