Saturdays Finds

[Kevo_DFX]

Saturday's Finds

I don't often post group shots of my finds, but your posts have helped me so much, I thought I'd post what for me is a fairly typical yardsale day. The shadowbox, books, and compass are for me. On the shadowbox there is a leather cigar case, a pair of Ray-Bans, and a Sterling Tiffany Ring. The large metal box is a drop safe from a trolley. I buy the scrabble games to sell group lots of the letters, I have 11 of them so far, lol. Should make a little over $200, spent $21. Also on the shadowbox you'll see my one dud purchase of the day, a vintage cigarette maker.

 

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[Justice70]

Nice pickins'. I have thought about trying the scrabble letters myself, they are pretty hot amongst the craft people.

 

[GibH]

That cigarette maker was a pain in the rear. You'd put a filter in one chamber and tobacco in the longer chamber, then use the slide to push them into a paper tube. Probably ruined as many as I made with it. I wasn't real fussy about where my cigarettes came from back then.

 

[vpnavy]

Nice buys. Thanks for sharing...

 

[Jayers]

Nice compass, still in the package. I have one of those myself. Get a good price on it too?

 

[diggummup]

I like the drop safe. Any mention oif a particular trolley on it? Ray Bans are always a good bet. I'm getting ready to list a pair of Olympian II's that I scored recently.

 

[Butter Hat]

Forgive my ignorance, but why is the cigarette maker a dud? No market for it or what?

 

[Kevo_DFX]

Jayers - 50 cents for the compass!

Diggum - There is a plate on the front that has an "8" on it. You can see it in the photo if you look close. It was made by the Cleveland Farebox Company.

Butter Hat - yup, no market. There was one on Ebay that didn't sell for 3 dollars.

 

[2ndisbest]

I have yet to buy a scrabble game. Every damn sale I go to everyone wants $5 for the game no matter what. Which is funny cause at a sale last week I picked up a Franklin Mint 1991 Monopoly game for $18 but she wouldn't budge on the scrabble game. I wish the monopoly game was mint, but the board is in really bad condition. Only reason I bought it was to piece out the houses, hotels, and tokens. I will do good on it.

 

[clovis97]

It is amazing how much that Scrabble tiles have dropped in value over the past few years.

We were really, really blessed to have found numerous Scrabble games, many of them very old, back when they were like finding 24K gold. IIRC, we were selling 100 tiles for $60, and couldn't keep them in stock.

 

[2ndisbest]

Found a scrabble game today and only paid a buck! Is it best to sell 100 tiles at a time or bigger lots? Also what about the blank tiles, do you pull them or keep them in?