Hi everyone. I couldn’t come up with an interesting thrifting theme for this week. So, I’m just going to say Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, and here is what we found recently while thrifting:

This Friday, I managed to squeeze two estate sales into the usual thrifting run. Didn’t come away with very much, but these funny looking Vikings with canoe was an easy pickup. I actually found another similar wood figurine… but I put it down to look at something else. When I turned back, it was gone. I’m not sure if that was sneaky fellow seller who took it, or an estate gremlin, or…

I picked up these nice mugs with the Country Village pattern on them from Nasco at the thrift. We’d found the canisters in this pattern previously. The little Roselane owl to the side almost didn’t come home from the thrift due to quite a bit of wear – and one of his plastic eyes is also a little blurry. Perhaps we’ll bill him as a “senior owl” or something…

I keep finding Ken Edwards items at the thrift every so often, and when they’re reasonable they often come home with us. The design on this one seems rather unusual for a KE piece – it almost has an Asian sort of influence to the bird and tree design.

This was the only other item I found at the estate sale – a small Edward Winter enamel dish. These enamels often fly under the radar – sometimes because the sig isn’t recognized and also because the range in prices varies considerably – anywhere from $10 to $1000. I’d really like to pick up a book on modern enamels, or perhaps an art catalogue if there isn’t a book.

We haven’t picked up too much Pyrex recently – it’s just really difficult to ship the larger items. However, I wasn’t about to let this Blue Foulard pyrex beverage server get away. How do we know this is called Foulard? Well, we already have a full set in the original box, as seen on our collector site Pyrex Love.

Last up are a pair of unknown vases. I really need to stop buying so many of these unknowns… but what keeps me picking them up is the fact that every so often, I find something really rare of valuable. These vases? Probably not. They might fall into the other 90% of the unknown vases we find – someone’s pottery project. =)

They’re still really nice – the stoneware one is signed clearly with “Takekoshi Koshi“. It has a midcentury vibe going for it, or at least I’m trying to convince myself it is. The other one has a really nice matte blue/black glaze and is signed with:

Anyone recognize it? I’m stumped, but I often find that when I really can’t figure it out it’s because I’ve been looking at it for too long. And usually, someone else comes along and IDs it right away, LOL. I thought it could be “Coulyon”, “Coulawn”, “Couleson” or “Coulevon”.

OK – hope you enjoyed this quick round up. See you all next week!

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?
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