Day one, second stop: March 1st, 2008.

Much better.

The previous occupant was an artists. Lots of drawings and paintings of the occupants hand. I thought he might be a New Yorker cartoonist; looking back I doubt it, but he was proficient and talented. We scored two pieces of Wedgwood 'Jesper' ware thingies; we like them.





Wedgwood(two pieces): paid 35 dollars.
Insurance Value: 125 dollars
Net: 95 dollars


Xoga [?] pottery: paid 5 dollars
Insurance Value: Unknown
Note: Vicky, please feel free to drop some knowledge in the comments if you know who this potter is. If not, then, just nod in agreement that it's probably really valuable.




Bridge table with one matching chair: paid 20 dollars
Insurance Value: 150 dollars
Net: 130 dollars
Comments: Who even knew there was such a thing. It's made by "Stakmore. Aristocrats of folding furniture." It's got all the labels, but only one of the four original chairs. We think it's quite fine with it's leather playing surface, super neat folding mechanism and the overall coolness of it.





Box 'O yarn and needles: paid 15 dollars
Insurance Value: 250 dollars
Net: 235 dollars
Comment: This was a total score. Most of the hand-spun, hand-dyed yarn even has tags with prices; price tags, as it were. And each one was like 12-16 bucks. Needles, nub cotton (small yellow stuff; mmm...so texturey), there were lots of nice yarn--all in skeins of 4 or 5 so we can use them in significant quantities for projects. We were hoping we'd get the 1 male out of the three checkout people, and we did. He was totally like, "yarn, meh, 15 bucks." Dumbass!



6000ml pyrex beaker: paid 15 dollars
Insurance value: 50 bucks [?]
Comments: This thing is huge. Huge I tell you. I'm sure it's worth more than 50. C broke a lot of this stuff in lab in college. What a dork, but she says it's expensive. We put nice flowers in it.

Wine bottle for scale included at no charge.

Update: We've located a retail value of 149.99 on the "Pyrex Florence flat-bottom, 6000 ml flask."

Some Records: paid 2 dollars
Insurance Value: Would you really insure records? Maybe.
Comments: Pink Floyd, Atom Heart Mother; The Yiddish are Coming. The Yiddish are Coming.

We made(in our "minds"):

510 dollars plus an invaluable piece of pottery we can't even put a value on and some records! We'll call it 525 dollars profit on the day. Please note, as my father pointed out, it's only worth that much if someone is willing to pay you that much for it. It's all about finding the right market. Our hearts are our market. Awwwww.