The Scout

Sarah and I have been super lazy bloggers, but luckily our disciple Zach has been much more proactive. Husband Zach collects and resells vintage watches, so lately he has been scoping out estate and garage sales in hopes of finding some.

On Sunday I got a Facetime call from him, which looked like this:

He explained that he bought this doll because it was only $1 and he thought it might be valuable. I told him I thought so too! At least more than $1 valuable! Zach also bought this crazy Knickerbocker doll because he knew we had blogged about that brand before:

This doll is amazingly weird. It is a baby and a Santa. A Santa Baby…like the song, except I don’t think the song literally meant a baby that is also Santa. Anyway, we are going to stick it on ebay and see what happens.

So while on this call, Zach explains that this sale he was at had tons of old train stuff but he didn’t know what to buy. He described this “service station” thing and I convinced him to go back and buy it. It sounded like something we should take a chance on.

It turned out to be way cooler than I imagined while talking to Zach on the phone:

I could tell this was crazy old because it was wood and not tin. It was in great shape. After doing some research, we figured out it was made in 1949 and sold at Sears. It is up on ebay now and already has a $50 bid. It has 18 watchers too, so hopefully it will go a little higher.

So then flash forward to today and Zach gets home later than usual after work. Turns out he had stopped at an estate sale. I was just about to nap with Everett when Zach informed me that I REALLY needed to get up and go to the sale he was just at. “It was like a hoarder and there was all this stuff and I know we could resell some of it and blah blah…”

Well, his assessment was right on. This place was packed. And the stuff was good. The prices seemed fair. I had apparently taught Grasshopper well.

They even had a doll of Sarah’s future child there:

Check out those teefers.

I ended up buying the following:

An Ohio Art tin buggy which seems like it should be an easy resell:

A cool old ice bucket by Hazel Atlas Glass company:

And this hilarious watch which was only $1. People like Duran Duran don’t they?!

(Zach seemed very skeptical of this purchase.)

I will probably go back tomorrow with Sarah because there were other things I was interested in but wanted to wait and barter over. Prices today were pretty firm.

When Zach was at the sale, he got this cool toy wagon for $15. It was really dirty and he cleaned it all up. It is all wood and super cute.