Holy sheisse! I can't believe how many people entered the giveaway for Lisa Leonard's necklace. I'll announce the big winner on Monday.
Now, for my finds this week...
The tin picnic basket was a great score because it is so hard to find them at a decent price anymore. The suitcase was on consignment at a local thrift store for $25. Re-damn-dick-u-lous! The manager of the store knew that I wanted it, and that no one was going to buy it for $25, so he talked to the consignor and he let me have it for MUCH cheaper. It pays to schmooze (and beg a little).
"Irish" ice skates...
An unused baby book with the cutest graphics and this bookmark tucked inside...
I bought a few pieces of ephemera, including this old composition book...
A 1913 order ledger from an Oleomargarine manufacturer...
I so look forward to summertime when I can use these labels for my homemade boisenberry chutney and my delectable pickled baby carrots.
Kidding. The only pickling going on in this house is of the liver variety. But these labels are damn cute...
This copy of First Year Latin brought back memories of high school, when my mom convinced me to take Latin because it would be helpful when I eventually learned other languages. I probably should have just learned the other languages instead. And, the only thing I remember from two years of studying a dead language? The Latin version of Jingle Bells. Horrible, I know. Tinnitus, tinnitus, semper tinnitus!
I also bought this handwriting workbook from 1898, "The Natural System of Vertical Handwriting"...
The student practiced writing a receipt. Six dozen eggs for a quarter! They must be feeding a shitload of people with that many eggs. But they're only buying five biscuits. I guess they were hoping for some loaves and fishes action with those biscuits.
Great finds!! It does pay to schmooze. I love the ledger book.
Have a great weekend!
Rosemary
Posted by: Rosemary | March 01, 2008 at 11:39 PM
I have that same picnic box! Mine's pretty banged up, but I love it anyway. Great finds, as usual!
Posted by: Heidi | March 02, 2008 at 12:49 AM
Great stuff. Can you feel the envy from upstate NY? The handwriting book is the best.
Posted by: Barbara | March 02, 2008 at 09:48 AM
HA!! on the egg comment, how things change over the years lol!! Nice nice finds, so glad you did well with the suitcase, always worth asking about a better price isnt it?
Alicia ~ time worn style
Posted by: Alicia | March 02, 2008 at 04:02 PM
Wow...look how perfect that handwriting is in the ledger! Some people have the prettiest writing even when it is fast...mine isn't. I remember my cousin's grandfather wrote like he had an invisible ruler beneath - taught penmanship must've gone out by the time I started school.
When I saw the title of your post I wondered why you mentioned "ringing in the ears"...that annoying disorder that afflicts many people for no reason (like moi)...aging sucks.
Posted by: tammyCA | March 02, 2008 at 05:56 PM
Love the pickling comment! lol
Wish I could go with you on these great hunting trips...you score such great stuff!
Posted by: Joy | March 02, 2008 at 06:45 PM
wow! Great finds- love all the vintage notebooks! You had me cracking up at the pickling comment!
Posted by: robin~thrifty miss priss | March 02, 2008 at 09:50 PM
Cool stuff! I think I'd have bought every single thing you did. Those tin picnic baskets are impossible to find around here. I don't think I've ever run across one "in the wild" and only a handful at shops.
Posted by: Wanda | March 03, 2008 at 09:52 AM
hey- email me- I'd love to buy the ledger from you.
Posted by: Lee W. | March 03, 2008 at 11:39 AM
i love those canning labels -- and would buy them from you! (if you're selling!)
xo Abbey
Posted by: Abbey | March 03, 2008 at 02:18 PM
Great finds, Love the baby book.
Dona
Posted by: Dona | March 03, 2008 at 07:18 PM
Don't use those labels even on your liver. If they are the real thing they take about 3 years to get off the jar once it's empty. First hand experience - sigh. Thanks for the good read. Cabin fever is high today, snowing again in Colorado...double sigh.
Posted by: Lori Wostl | March 05, 2008 at 08:18 PM
Love the baby book - what a treasure! Labels are great too!
Posted by: Brierley & Clover | March 06, 2008 at 04:36 AM
I love old tin picnic baskets! I found one at a thrift store a year or two ago for just a couple bucks. I was so worried they were going to say the price was a mistake when I checked out, but they didn't! Yay!
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