When collectors and craftspeople sell their stuff at a garage sale, It's worth making the effort to get there on time!
Today's sale in Shrewsbury Street was one of the best ever. Their sheds were full of treasure and 'priced to go'.
I brought home:A working brass padlock of ingenious design, a tin trunk that once served as a toy 'box', 100 thick slate tiles, a tin of linen buttons, a copper bucket, a John Bull bicycle puncture repair outfit, a 4-paned window, a two man saw, 4 brown glass preserving jars, 3 old door keys, a brass plumb bob, a wooden laundry 'dolly' and a whole lot of other interesting things.
Of more interest probably, are the things I was tempted to buy, but didn't, based on the criteria that that needed to be genuinely useful: a powder horn, hames for heavy horses, scythes (I have plenty) and hundreds of other 'collectible' things.
Good fun, glad I went.
3 comments:
I hope you paid the people accordingly!
By "getting there early" you didn't mean 'under cover of darkness', did you?
Are you just redefining your terms? Garage sale/robbery, it's all good!
Perish the thought Shunda.
I haggled fair and square for every treasure.
He was a 'black powder' frontiers man, maker of knives and buckskin and she was a leather worker and spinster who collected padlocks.
Sneaking around in the early morning darkness would have spelled my demise.
Not now that you have his power-horn
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