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My find of this week was this pair of vintage game worn baseball cleats for $30 as part of a larger order. From the auction details, I believe these were worn by longtime MLB player and coach Red Kress but I’ll need to do a little more research to make sure. If I’m right, these should sell in the $200 range, maybe even a little higher.
I have some confidence in buying items like this because of a similar sale from March of this year. I sold a game worn undershirt from 1930s Phillies player Dick Bartell for $200, purchased for $20 on eBay. Before I stumbled on that gem of a listing, some previous buyer bought it from an auction house for $1000. I found the sold listing on their website and provided a link to that page in the description of my listing. Maybe it would have sold without all that work, but it felt like the right amount of provenance. I’d love to find that info for this item, too.
But it might be difficult. These cleats still have an auction tag from 1997! So even the auction tag is vintage. Don’t worry, I won’t use that in my listing.
What did you find this week?
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I bought a bunch of shoes that are just bread n butter $40-80 list price. Nothing of special note.
After I had finished going through the shoes I was waiting on my wife to finish up in the women’s clothes. 2 items caught my eye in that section.
The first was a plaid jacket that had an unusual cut. It was a vintage Brittany Riding Apparel riding coat. Worth $150. Score!
Then as I rounded the corner an unusual color and fabric dress caught my eye. It was gold velvet. It is a Anthropologie Jenny Yoo Deep V Gown. Also worth about $150.
One other real interesting item I bought was a train very similar to this:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/166391745987
Mine is in original box, all cars say RC. The track is missing. I paid up at $40 but I think it will be a fairly quick sale for $125-150. The individual cars sell quite well.
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I did less sourcing as I intended last week. I just went to the flea market with a very small haul and an elementary school sale. The elementary school sale did not have any dealers. Most of it was clothes and kids stuff. However, it was associated with a church and they had at least one old lady donate. The best score was a Roseville (my first time ever finding in the wild) bud vase set from the 1930s. https://justartpottery.com/products/roseville-ferella-1930-vintage-art-deco-pottery-tan-handled-ceramic-vase-497-5 One of them was lying in the grass and I paid a dollar each.
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Spent a fair amount this last week at auctions. Bidding was crazy fierce and I ended up losing the majority of the items I was bidding on, but still ended up with a fair amount of cool items. My favorite is a Depression-era lamp made by a company named Fairies. Couldn’t find anything like it prior to bidding and stuck my neck out with a $60 bid because I thought something so cool had to be worth a bit. Have since found 4 on sale ranging in price from $850 – $2400. I’m going to have to re-wire it but will hopefully have something special when I’m done.
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I should be focused on getting my death piles listed, but scavenging is too much fun. I wanted to buy something for myself on GoodwillFinds, so I went through their clearance to see if I found something I wanted to resell. I did find two things. Their price was not bad, but the shipping was very high. Seems like many of the Goodwill’s that post there are on the West Coast, and I’m on the other side. I decided to go for it anyway. The shipping will just go to COGS.
This “German labeling system” is actually for drafting. I enjoy vintage engineering tools. I should get at least $150 for it.
These old ’60s hubcaps are just cool looking. I believe that I can get $40 – $50 each. I think this is the main expense in the high shipping cost.
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