Hi everyone. Even with the crazy winds, fallen trees and power outages - I decided to hit the thrifts anyhow. I steered clear of some of the harder hit areas, but still got stuck at a few traffic signals that had no power. Nevertheless, still found a few interesting things on thriftbreak.

I came across another Berggren Trayner piece. This one is a wooden plaque or cutting board with the motto on front "Egen hard ar guld vard". Near as I can tell, that translates to "Self-Hardening is worth gold." Or at least that's what Google Translate says...

I've seriously tried to cut down on any new Pyrex acquistitions. It has to be a really rare promo pattern, or something smaller I know we can sell like this New Dots yellow #402 mixing bowl. I think this is the 3rd or 4th one we've found. We have a complete set of 4 bowls, and part of another one we're trying to complete.

I didn't know which company these were from originally, but I knew it was likely a California pottery. From the glaze, I sort of narrowed it to Bauer, Metlox, Gladding or Pacific. It turns out they're Gladding McBean "El Patio" shakers. Strange that there are two sets of salt pepper shakers, and the glaze seems to be "Golden Glow", although they look slightly different.

This is a lovely dark navy blue Dansk Kobenstyle baker, that was unusual because it had so few enamel chips. To be honest, I've been really careful buying Kobenstyle lately. I've probably passed up 10-15 pieces over the past year. The reason is, many thrift stores have "caught on" to their desirability and price them QUITE unreasonably. Boo on them.

The other reason is that they tend to have a lot of damage to the enamel. And lastly, most pieces don't sell for THAT much. All of that adds up to us being quite picky lately with it. In addition, this is not one of the original "4 ducks" pans. It's a Dansk International France version, with exposed cast iron base. I still had to pick it up because of the lack of damage.

Lastly, I ended up coming home with this interesting Creative Playthings kid's chair. This was a New Jersey company that produced a lot of interesting wooden and other toys, some of which are quite in demand. Other than that, I knew nothing about the chair. I know we've been trying to cut down on single chairs, and this one had some damage to the plywood, but I just couldn't pass it up at the thrift store price.

I was wondering if anyone might have information as to what set this chair belongs to, and when it might've been produced. I'm guessing from the construction it might be late 60s to early 70s.

Ok, happy thrifting!

Happy thrifting!