Today Dave and I went to a yard sale / flea market. They had stuff from multiple estate sales on wagons and in pole barns out in the country; the only “yard” part of it was that you parked on the grass. There was a lot of junk – of course – and some good stuff, although most of the good stuff was expensive.
Depression Glass
One of the estates must have enjoyed creamers and sugars because they had a lot of them, mostly pink depression – Dogwood, Royal Lace, Mayfair – plus Mayfair. I got this pretty Dogwood sugar bowl and a Royal Lace one that’s not photographed yet.
Dogwood Pink Depression Glass Footed Sugar
I was tempted by several pieces of green Florentine #2 Poppy – love that pattern – but Dave pointed out a lot of wear so it stayed behind. They had Iris in iridescent too, and Mayfair. The Mayfair was a little costly, especially to buy for reselling.
Cherry Blossom Real and Repro
Since they had stuff scattered over 20 flat bed wagons, glass was scattered with bigger groupings in maybe 5 different wagons. One wagon had Cherry Blossom and Madrid obvious reproductions; another had real Madrid and a third had an excellent selection of real Cherry Blossom. It’s was not badly priced, $150 for 11 Cherry Blossom pink dinner plates, but that was more than I wanted to spend today.
I haven’t memorized the Cherry Blossom reproduction tell-tales for all the pieces, just the couple that we’ve sadly bought, dinner plates and tumblers. The dinner plates were light, had nice smooth rims and finely detailed cherries and leaves, very pretty pieces and real depression glass!
Box Lots and Fostoria
One thing this sale had that I liked was box lots. They grouped stuff – and I do mean stuff! into a box and sold the whole box for a few bucks. One box had 4 Fostoria Wedding Ring goblets, a Candlewick creamer, Petalware creamer, Cube creamer and sugar, Fostoria American little bowl, a rolled rim console bowl , plus umpteen other pieces that got washed and are going to Salvation Army. When we got the box home one goblet turned out to be dinged on the side so it went in the trash, but the other three are beautiful.
Fostoria Wedding Ring Goblet
Lucky Noritake Find
As we were walking back to the check out two things happened. I saw a piece of china peeking out of a big box (that had a stepladder and folding chair leaning on it) and decided to check it out. The china turned out to be Noritake Andrea from the late 1950s.
The set included dinner, salad, bread and butter plates, sauce dishes, and a few serving pieces plus cups and saucers. It was grimy! Just filthy. When we got home I hand washed it and culled pieces with chips or any wear whatsoever. Chipped pieces got trashed and the plates with a little gold loss plus cups and saucers got packed for donating.
The other thing that happened was I brushed something off my face and didn’t think much of it. When we got home something was on my neck and I brushed it off and happened to look in the mirror. Yikes! I looked like a refugee from a bad vampire movie with a big bloody spot on my neck. That’s the downside of a rural sale, you do get bugs!