photo credit: cometstarmoon It’s funny how seeing something can bring back a really old memory of something you completely forgot about. I was doing my usual skimming and scanning of eBay auctions when I came upon some auctions for vintage matchbooks. I looked at the old matchbook covers and suddenly I had a flash of [...]
Leather bound books are a wonderful collectible that celebrate an art that is quickly disappearing.
Vintage catalogs are one of my favorite things to find at estate sales but they don’t turn up all that often. I think they are one of those collectibles that were treated as ephemera and were often thrown away. I know there are a lot of people out there who collect the old Sears Christmas [...]
In one corner of my game room I’ve got a box filled with someone’s memories. Vintage Valentines Cards, Christmas greetings signed with love from someone long since gone to their reward. Bundled up in that plain old box are hundreds of long kept greetings and well wishes dating back to the 1930′s or so. // [...]
There are many people who are still quite taken by the idea of a visit to the theater (theatre). I guess I’ve just never really been exposed to it very much. I imagine this 1933 edition of The Playgoer might be of interest to someone. It was published in Pittsburgh, PA and has quite a [...]
One of the things I come across on a semi-regular basis is old hunting and fishing memorabilia. This is a Summary of Laws Relating to Fish and Fishing in the Inland Waters of Pennsylvania from 1939. Earlier editions I’ve found have included laws pertaining to both hunting and fishing. This particular booklet is fishing only. [...]
Among a very large bunch of estate sale ephemera, I found a neat little booklet telling of The Christ of the Andes, The Great Peace Monument in South America. Written for children in 1927 by the Committee on Peace and Service, it is an interesting little story book. The one I found was the ninth [...]
I’ve got a lot of vintage playing cards sitting around in one box or another. For some reason, if I see an interesting vintage card deck when I go out to estate sales, I end up snagging it. Sometimes, I pick them up by the box full. Since I am on a bit of a [...]
When I came across some vintage railroad maps, I was surprised at how huge they were (at least the ones I had). I guess they’d make a pretty neat framed display in a train room. One buyer told me that he is actually using them to build true to life scale models of steel mills [...]
Among the many very old books I acquired when I purchased one particular estate lot, was this very nice 1887 edition of Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey by Samuel S. Cox. Mr. Cox was a United States Minister to Turkey who wrote not so much about his political work, but the diversions he found [...]
Second Hand Sale Online presents… This is a program distributed to professional teachers who attended the 1929 Fayette County Teachers’ Institute. This is definitely a niche item, so we’ll have to see if anyone out there is collecting old materials related to teachers and/or education. This might also interest people who collect prgrams from various [...]
I occasionally come across World War II Aviation Memorabilia and books. One of my best finds to date was an original P-51 Mustang flight manual that was in great shape. I don’t know if the original owner was a collector or a pilot, but it was fascinating to read it. It felt like holding a [...]
Second Hand Sale presents… 1926 McKeesport High School Yearbook This is a very nice old find that I came across at an estate sale. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I run across old yearbooks on a fairly regular basis. This example however is in exceptional shape for such an old book. It also [...]
Second Hand Sale presents… A very nice 1945 Vintage McKeesport High School Yearbook. One of the things I enjoy finding at estate sales is old yearbooks. Looking at them is like looking back at life during another generation’s glory days. All of the young faces filled with dreams of the future! I generally could have [...]
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