Hi everyone. For this post around we have a smaller roundup of thrift finds. In this business of thrifting (or just plain thrifting, if you’re doing it for fun), it just comes with the territory. Some days it seems like every single thrift store you visit has multiple items you’re interested in. Other days, we come home without a single thing.

I think when you’re first starting out thrifting, a lot of people are looking for a particular item or type of items. And if you don’t find it in that first couple of times at the thrift, it’s really easy to get discouraged. The trick is you have to go very frequently. It doesn’t matter so much what time of the day or week, but the frequency. It also greatly helps to expand the range of items that you look for.

I still get discouraged after getting skunked, but have learned to try and focus on times when you DO find things – even if it’s only a small haul of goodies.

We found another De Simone vase at the thrift – this one is a lot more colorful and detailed than the floral vase we have up in the shop. This one also exhibits more of the characteristic “Picasso”-ey look than the other one we found (Giovanni De Simone studied under Picasso for a bit).

To the right of the vase is a wonderful Arabia of Finland tureen that’s unfortunately missing its cover. This is the popular Anemone design that was designed by Ulla Procope. Keep in mind that you might be able to score these sometimes at the thrift from under the noses of the usual pickers – the marking on the older Anemone pieces is handwritten and it’s sometimes difficult to make out the word “Arabia” or “Finland”.

The funny Swedish wooden figurines in the front were made by a company called Butticki. I have to admit that name sounded kind of humorous and was the main reason I picked it up at the thrift…

The glass decanter or flask in the back is something I’m very curious about. It has a sticker which identifies it as Dansk Designs made in Sweden along with the “GC” mark. GC is of course Gunnar Cyren. However, I haven’t been able to find this exact shape anywhere online. I’ve found a Dansk GC glass wine carafe that seems to have made up until recently (it has a Malaysia marked teak stopper). However, that shape is very different than this one. I’m also not sure if this originally had some sort of stopper. Anyone know more about this piece?

OK, I almost forgot – speaking of small hauls, I picked up this little white pottery tumbler the other day without knowing who made it. It had a really nice satin matte glaze, three stilt marks on bottom and just looked to be of high quality. I’ve been wrong many times about these items, but it just goes to show that it’s worth picking up things if you’re cheap enough. I also ended up having to wait in line about 15 minutes just to pay the 99 cents – it was the only thing I bought at the store.

When I got home and looked at the base under better light, I saw it just had the word “Catalina” on it. That was pretty exciting, since it’s only the 2nd time we’ve found any Catalina Pottery in the thrift. And this is true Catalina – not the Gladding McBean remakes (confusingly, those are often labeled “Catalina Pottery” but were made by Gladding).

It’s not worth a ton. But it really made the thrift run, which had been somewhat unproductive up until that point, seem much more fruitful.

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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