Cast Iron Trivet with Rooster

Where: Random NJ Yard Sale
Paid: 50¢

Old, missing the colorful tile in the center. I like this better as a iron picture Frame.

Vintage 1920's Leather Welder's Goggles

Where: Estate Sale, NJ
Paid, about $2

Nice find in the bottom of a toolbox in the Basement of the Estate. These can also be used to view an eclipse, whenever the next one happens I'll be the one wearing these.  Excellent accessory for Steampunk couture.  

Wacky vintage Japanese Analog Calculator

Where: Salvation Army
Paid, about $1

Division was implemented on later models

Interesting calculator for the late 1960's made in Japan.  Use the brass stylus to drag down the toothed rails and count away.  Like an abacus, with numbers. Sure, adding is a cinch, good luck doing multiplication or any type of division on this.

Two wrongs make 93.315

Vintage humorous Giant Postcards

Where: Uncle Raul's in Jersey City
Paid: about 2 dollars for the pile

...about 40 humorous "King Size Gooney Cards" from the 1940's 1950's, where sending a postcard was a measly 4¢

 

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Where : The Salvation Army, Kennedy Blvd, Jersey City, N.J

Paid : 50 cents

What a dapper gent !!!!

 

6 Stamps

Where : Uncle Raul's Bargain Basement Halladay St, Jersey City

Paid : $5

I looked them up and it seems they're worth about $2.35, not my best deal !!

I don't collect stamps- I chose them by subject matter & colors,

The nursing is my favorite, so of course, it's the only used one !!

Armour's Beef Extract Promotional Measuring Cup

Where: Random Yard Sale
Paid: $1.oo

Nice Glass measuring cup with embossed 'Use Armour's extract of beef' promotional language. Measures to 1 cup. Unknown Manufactured Date

"One Cup of beef extract, coming right up!"

Rush band Novelty Mirror

Where: Random Yard Sale
Paid: $1.oo

Neat 5"x5" Rush "Man in the Pentagram" mirror with wood frame, for all the progressive rock freaks to get their Rush on.  Dated 1981

Vintage Metal 6-Egg Boiler with Sand Timer.

Where: Estate Sale
Paid: 50¢

Neat Metal Egg Timer.  Holds up to 6 eggs.  Cool Sand hourglass-style timer. Submerge, flip Timer, boil, done!

"Like sands through the Hourglass..."

"...so are the Eggs of our Lives"

Swimming Cats postcard

Where : From my Great Aunt, when I was a kid

On the back it says : Alfred Mainzer Inc
39-33 29th Street Long Island City, NY
Printed in Belgium
4888

I found it on cardcow.com for $14.95
and of course, saw another I want, the Barbershop !!

Vintage Get Well Cards

Where : Pequannock, NJ town wide garage sale

Paid $2 for a big box of cards
 

 

 

 

What does a Lady with a parasol have to do with getting well ?

 

So you can go hunting ????!!!!!!!!!!

Blue Whirl - 1950's Egg Beater

I've always had a small fascination of egg-beaters.  My grandmother always let me play with the beater, I would be spinning and giggling away. 

Even though a little rusty, it still has character.   You can usually find these at some good sales, and especially online. I think Blue Whirl has been making these since the 19-teens..

Arrow 201 Stapler

I like old staplers. I like that they were made of the heavy feel of steel.  I like that these and other office supplies came in this drab Green and of course, chrome.....

This 1960's Stapler comes from good ol' Brooklyn, New York by the Arrow Fastener Company. The best thing anyone will say about this, and was the first thing I noticed, was the 3-way staple setting. Can be pivoted to set for closed, open, and 'temporary' stapling. This one is exceptionally clean, works, and still had old staples in it.

1920's Fitzgerald "Star-Rite" Waffle Maker

Where: Estate Sale in Pequanock NJ.
Paid: $7

Someone's Aunt passed and had the house open for a nice sale. There was a lot of old stuff there, this was the first piece I seen when I walked through the back door to the kitchen.

   

This one was the Fitzgerald company's top-of-the-liner in the late 1920's. There's a green jewel on the dome knob, and an interesting temperature gauge that wants you to "Wait for total eclipse." 

 
..well I don't know, but the only total eclipse visible in the US at that time was after the 20's, so that must have been one well-done waffle.
 
The Eclipse gauge is great, but seems the original owner used some metal putty on one side to keep it together. Some research
revealed the design for the gauge was flawed and fell apart (p.72) after much waffle madness.

Chrome Paper Towel/Wax Paper Bin

Where purchased: Probably a Salvation Army
Paid: I think about $4

 Everyone's Grandma had one of these in the kitchen. Chrome Bin with tabs to keep the rolls inside. Cursive stamp "Paper Towels" and "Waxed Paper" because you always needed waxed paper for all that baking going on back then. Now with Global Warming upon us, baking has slowed wax paper sales to a screeching halt.

Toastmaster Model 2D2 Waffle Iron

Where: Probably the Salvation Army by The Holland Tunnel, NJ.
Paid: I think about $8

 To continue with the "Chromed Kitchen" era, here's an awesome Waffle Iron. A Toastmaster model 2D2. 

Manufactured  between 1939 and 1959, this one is a nice specimen. Some pitting of the chrome is evident.