Oh yeah! It's the start of GARAGE SALE season!!

[PassingFair]

My first sale of the season...found a wonderful enamel dish on copper,
signed and numbered...got it home...it was made by a San Francisco artist
named Win Ng....

He's a famous dead artist!

It looks like this: (only red and yellow and green)



Copper & Enamel Dish, Price : Twenty-five cents

Joy of looking up the artist on the internets: Priceless!

http://rehistoricizing.org/win-ng/

[bigwillq]

1. Cool!

:hi:

I find some cool things once and awhile. Don't go too often but have found some bargains! :bounce:

[PassingFair]

2. I drive all day for work, between meetings all across 2 counties...

I love garage sales. They break up my day and allow me to
get out and walk around. I've found some real treasures and
lots of everyday use stuff.

I particularly love mid-century modern finds.

[stuntcat]

3. oooo yeah

I just remembered this the other day too! I was out walking, I thought how it's about time to look out for the homemade signs telling where the sales are coming up on the weekends.

That is a great find. I usually find some funny books or records. I can't stand those yard sales that are almost all baby clothes.

[PassingFair]

7. You never know WHAT you're going to find...but I avoid the baby clothes too.

No babies in my current scenario!

I'm looking for 2 items, which are the combined
Holy Grail of garage sale finds for me...

A Conant Ball China Cabinet and
an older model Gaggia (or other Italian-made)
all metal espresso maker.

One of these days, I'm going to go into someone's
garage or basement, and they'll be there!

[backwoodsbob]

4. i scored the buy of the century last summer

1953 era rogers bothers complete silverware set including all the accessories in the original cherry wood case PLUS 8 pieces of united pure silver...$20.00

[PassingFair]

5. Cripes! Sell that silver!

It's like treasure hunting!

[grasswire]

6. I love enamel on copper things

I collect the bowls and have some reallllly pretty ones.

Did you find a value on this?

And do you know we have a collecting and antiques forum here on DU?

[PassingFair]

8. Looks like they go anywhere from $50 to $250...

Worthpoint has 11 of them archived as sold, but I'm
not a member....

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. That is BEAUTIFUL!!

[grasswire]

10. for the same artist?

or for various artists?

[PassingFair]

11. Same artist. His name is Win Ng.

He co-founded the Taylor & Ng stores in SanFrancisco,
so I was hoping some California DUer would recognize
the name...

[auntAgonist]

12. awesome find!! I love garage sales. Unfortunately

most of them here are pretty much always baby and children's clothing. I'm not in the market for either.


aA
:hi:

[PassingFair]

13. Oh I hear you. But sometime, even at those sales...way in the back...

somebody is selling something of Grandma's that they
just don't appreciate.

Last summer, my husband and I found these GIGANTIC
Waterford goblets, new and in the box, for $10.00.



The lady selling them got them as a wedding present when she
married "that jerk" and she didn't want them anymore.

Luke and I feel like the Lord and Lady of the Manor when
we use them!

[auntAgonist]

14. Love Waterford Crystal. Those are gorgeous.

I might venture out again one of these days.

aA
kesha

[PassingFair]

15. The stories behind the "finds" are part of the fun.

I always want to puke when I hear, in business meetings,
that "people only appreciate something when it COSTS them
something"...

Really?

I only REALLY appreciate the stuff I get a "deal" on.
Or that I get for free.

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. I always tease PF that she's going to have a helluva garage sale

one of these days. But, she is the one who got me my first (and only) Coach purse.

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. Awesome. You would totally LOVE Houston...where the season is ALL

YEAR!!!!! We could get up enthusiastically early each day even.

[PassingFair]

18. You know we would only get in fights over the vintage tea-towels...

Is there anything to BUY in Texas made before
1982?

:P

[Kat45]

19. Next week is the local senior center's annual yard sale.

My mother was involved with it when she was alive and I always see some of her old friends there. It's a great yard sale because they sell things so cheap. Sometimes THEY try to talk YOU down because they're afraid it's too much! lol I've never found anything worth a lot of money there, though I tend to get there late after valuable stuff would have been found. I did once get a barely-used stationery bike for $10.

Since they have no room to store anything, they have to get rid of everything that day, and toward the end of the day, they'll let you fill a supermarket bag up with whatever and pay just $1.00 for it! I always feel bad because this is their big annual fundraiser and they could probably make more than they do, but they're having fun and still do ok money-wise so I guess it's ok. I usually get a lot of books, maybe some CDs, some costume jewelry. Many of the books are frivolous paperbacks, but you can find some good old books as well. I got a copy of "Lyndon Johnson & the American Dream" by Doris Kearns (yup, before the Goodwin). I also got a couple of books in a Harvard Classics series: Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" and a collection of American historical documents, Barack Obama's "Dreams from My Father," a book by Ted Kennedy,