Treasure! Treasure!
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sister_raphaelMy friend and I (trash-panda buddy) had a fabulous time kerbside collecting today. The suburb was a very affluent one, and we know from past experience that some of the stuff that gets put out for collection can be extremely valuable, and today it did not disappoint.
One house had bags and bags of crystal tableware, which I recognised the brands of and yoinked into the car as fast as I could. Edinburgh crystal. Thompson Webb Crystal. Waterford. A quick google showed the decanters selling for almost a thousand dollars for the rare and vintage ones, and I could tell these were all from around the 1970s so I had the thought that perhaps I had been very lucky indeed. There were three wine decanters too, two of which are valuable.
Sadly the whisky decanter was not the $1000 one, but a more modest $400 one, but that's still money I could use. Some of the glasses were selling for a few hundred dollars each.
Anyway, I spent quite a bit of time taking photos to help with identification, which is still an ongoing job, but I have found a few things. It will all be sold, for extra dollars which won't hurt the bank, what with petrol prices for a few events coming up the way they are.
Other fun goodies from different places included a vintage 1940's Australian tobacco tin and a small chest full of vintage high-end woodworking tools, some of which have sold already. A Bluey bike still unopened in its box and a rather lovely crystal chandelier-style candelabra with big glass flowers where the candles go which my niece has claimed already. My friend collected a new-in-box Yamaha electric piano. Along with the better stuff, I usually find garden stakes, pots and garden stuff and old books. I love old books. The best of today was a lovely gilded book from the year 1900, which is just wonderful.
Anyway, that was half a day completely taken up with that.
One house had bags and bags of crystal tableware, which I recognised the brands of and yoinked into the car as fast as I could. Edinburgh crystal. Thompson Webb Crystal. Waterford. A quick google showed the decanters selling for almost a thousand dollars for the rare and vintage ones, and I could tell these were all from around the 1970s so I had the thought that perhaps I had been very lucky indeed. There were three wine decanters too, two of which are valuable.
Sadly the whisky decanter was not the $1000 one, but a more modest $400 one, but that's still money I could use. Some of the glasses were selling for a few hundred dollars each.
Anyway, I spent quite a bit of time taking photos to help with identification, which is still an ongoing job, but I have found a few things. It will all be sold, for extra dollars which won't hurt the bank, what with petrol prices for a few events coming up the way they are.
Other fun goodies from different places included a vintage 1940's Australian tobacco tin and a small chest full of vintage high-end woodworking tools, some of which have sold already. A Bluey bike still unopened in its box and a rather lovely crystal chandelier-style candelabra with big glass flowers where the candles go which my niece has claimed already. My friend collected a new-in-box Yamaha electric piano. Along with the better stuff, I usually find garden stakes, pots and garden stuff and old books. I love old books. The best of today was a lovely gilded book from the year 1900, which is just wonderful.
Anyway, that was half a day completely taken up with that.
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