2015 Urban Safari Hunting Hauls (Garage Sale, Antique/Thrift Stores, Auctions...)

[Nostalgiabuff]

saw an extremely beet up Dinah Mite today for .50, the body and head were so rough I passed, would have just sat in my parts box. legs and arms were so discolored they were actually yellow. head moldy, hair cut and nasty. they had some fisher price adventure people for the same price but again they were all moldy and I did feel it worth my time to clean them up

[justzeg18]

3rd appearance of Thor, 1st appearance of Loki.
Relatively rare.

Could be a $100 book in this condition to the right person.

Mostly I was stoked because I never find comics of that era and importance in the wild.

[Blue Meanie]

I am out of the loop on comics, what is special about that issue and is there any value in that condition?

3rd issue with Thor in it. He started in Journey Into Mystery 83.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I am out of the loop on comics, what is special about that issue and is there any value in that condition?

[shazam7208]

Great grabs!

[justzeg18]

Grabbed this box of comics for $16.00 after flipping through the top of the stack and seeing this (thrashed) copy of Journey Into Mystery #85

Not a huge comics guy, but this is my second best comics score yet.

[justzeg18]

What did the Blythe go for?

I put it up w/ a $850 BIN and it lasted about 15min.

[Marvelmania]

Picked this up today! very cool piece. 1977 Coleco 'The Fonz' Pinball with original box!

AAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RickD]

Picked this up today! very cool piece. 1977 Coleco 'The Fonz' Pinball with original box!

[Nostalgiabuff]

not much this weekend, but I did get some really nice vinyl for a buck a piece, Floyd, Zeppelin, The Who and Queen

also got a travel version of the Nintendo game cube, in a travel carrying case, with 7 games, and all attachments and a battery pack for $15, my son was pretty happy. now I have to see if I can plug it into our portable DVD player so he can play it in the car

[justzeg18]

This weekend was pretty solid.

Saturdays haul, all from thrift stores, about $8.00 for it all:



The GEM of that pile was the Blythe.



I cleaned her up and put her on eBay that night, and she sold in about 20min.

Sunday was also pretty good, $5.00 at an antique store:

[Marvelmania]

Love that LP cabinet. Very nice!

[Nostalgiabuff]

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this is the vinyl I got, the ones in the cabinet are just my small collection

[Nostalgiabuff]

did not find much this weekend but I did get this cool LP cabinet, which I have been looking for one like it for a while, and some great vinyl, all for $20

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[Rallygirl]

Oh I see, you drove within eyesight of my farm and a just a couple miles from my house and didn't stop to visit a fellow Mego enthusiast.

ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND, PART I

But failure was soon to be rewarded in spades... Arriving in Holland, Michigan, we encountered the treasure-packed New Wooden Shoe Antique Mall. The overly-friendly proprietor provided us with a local antiquing map which actually redirected our plans for most of the day, as it offered a list of places along Route 31 we had not previously found in our online search. I also acquired one of the best deals of the trip: a Stereoviewer (aka "Stereopticon") in its original case , along with a couple stereoview cards of relatively (for the period) racy content --

With the resource of the local antiquing map in hand, we continued along Route 31... taking us next to Harvest Antiques & Collectibles, also in Holland. In one of the display cases I found what was only the second-ever plush "Pushmi-pullyu" I had ever seen (second to the one that I already own!) --

Our next stop was the West Michigan Antique Mall in Grand Haven which, like so many stores before it, was filled with goodies. From this location I still have some "Buyer's Remorse," as I passed up a few items which, if I had not been hungry and tired and so very eager to get to the next place that had already been hyped-up, I probably would have purchased. I could not, however, pass up three three 1935 US$1 silver certificates, especially considering they were priced at only double their face value(!) -- an incredible bargain, as these things are rarely ever priced less than $7 each.

...and it is here that I must break this story in the first of three parts, for the next location was more of a museum than a store, and I took so very many photos...