Hi everyone. This was all set to be another one of those “found nothing interesting” thrift posts, but I forgot to take enough good pics of all the stuff I passed up this week. However, I ended up hitting a small estate sale on the way to the post office today. I ended up grabbing this interesting Holmegaard blue glass bowl with rattan handle.

I was happy to see it was actually signed on bottom with Per Lutken‘s mark and a date of 1962. It also has a flag with and anchor with an “O.K.” mark on the bottom… I was guessing this might’ve been a gift or purchase from upboard a cruise liner. Anybody know?

The usual Friday thrift trip yielded nothing but this yellowBauer Pottery rose bowl.

Actually, I’m a bit happier about finding this after looking it up when I got home. It’s a larger size (7 inches) so it has a bit more value. These Fred Johnson pieces are some of my favorite pieces of pottery to pick. They’re easily overlooked at thrifts, estates and garage sales – because they’re never marked in any way. So most folks don’t know about it. There are also many, many copies and similar pieces (both vintage and new). The only way to know is study the shapes and glaze colors, and then get your hands on some so you can feel the texture and heft. And still, sometimes you just take a guess! … I’m almost never 100% sure.

OK, hope you’re all having a good non-football weekend. Stuporbowl… what’s that? =) Happy Thrifting!

This post is linked up to ATG’s Thrift Share Monday and HLA’s Flea Market Finds.

Did you find something cool at a thrift or flea market lately?
Please leave a comment here if so…

Hi everyone. Found a few things this past week while thrifting. To be honest, there’s been a pickup in the number of goodies at the thrift, but we’ve been good and have avoided bring a lot of stuff home. Just too many boxes of other inventory to list. I might start posting pics of stuff we DIDN’T bring home, like a lot of the other thrifters do.

This Swedish Dala horse was actually an estate sale pickup from last weekend. These Dala items are fairly popular in our shops, and usually quick sellers. I picked it up on Sunday, listed it within a few hours and it took only a few days for it to be snapped up. Keep in mind, recently we’ve seen that there are newer knockoffs being sold by chain “import” stores.

I still pick up almost any Ken Edwards pieces I see, if they’re reasonable. I should probably cut down on these too, because while they do sell, they definitely don’t go as fast as some of the other items we have.

Lastly, I got all excited about this Dansk multi-taper candleholder from France designed by Jens Quistgaard. It actually looked horribly and blackened before I was able to clean it up using silver polish. Still a lot to clean. But I didn’t realize that this was a fairly common item. Dansk silverplate stuff is difficult to find for us, so any time we find it is exciting. May just keep this one instead of listing it.

By the way, thanks everyone for playing the Thrifting Roundup “Pop Quiz” from last week. Hope to have a few more fun things like this on the blog in future.

Happy Thrifting!

This post is linked up to ATG’s Thrift Share Monday and HLA’s Flea Market Finds.

Did you find something cool at a thrift or flea market lately?
Please leave a comment here if so…

Hi everyone. As promised, here’s a photo of some of our thrifted (mostly, about 80%) ceramics from the past 5-6 years. Actually, these weren’t meant to be in this shelf – this was originally a CD/LP storage shelf at the old house that I built awhile ago. When we were cleaning up and finding ceramics all over the old place, it made it easier to collect everything in one place for later packing.

So, I was thinking of doing a #thriftbreak quiz thingy just for fun:

How many companies / designers / manufacturers can you recognize just from looking at the photo ?

Click on the pic to zoom. Sorry, I know it’s a really cruddy picture – had a hard time w/ light in the room. And I know from the angle, some of the flatter items are impossible to identify.

Actually, this is the type of identification/knowledge problem you might have to deal with in poorly lit, crowded thrift stores and estate sales anyhow… where you don’t even get to look at the base of the item right away (or things aren’t marked at all). I’ve tried to get better over the years at recognizing things on sight without having to pick them up. It saves a TON of time… but I still struggle with remembering and recognizingthem all. And I often still need to look at the base. It’s a fun game to play while you’re thrifting – try and name everything you see.

You can answer in the comments or, better yet – you can leave notes on the Flickr picture I set up.

OK, have fun!

P.S. Hint, most of these are California potteyr. Er, also… a few I haven’t even ID-ed yet!