Thrift Store Scores
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Holy shit how could I forget this gem that I picked up at the weekend as well?
It’s a lunchbox from the 1950s designed by a Canadian miner. The story goes that he was waiting for the train to take him down into the mine and didn’t have a seat so he used his lunchbox which promptly collapsed. He went home and took it upon himself to design a lunchbox that you can sit on. I picked it up for $3!
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@Inorganic that’s beautiful
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@steelworker RIGHT!!! I Have come to learn that they have a bit of a following. It’s one motherfucker of a lunchbox. I can tell you that.
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@steelworker ha!!! When I saw it at the market that is what I thought too!! If you look at their website they make it with the simplest of tools: shear, brake & riveter. Gotta love it
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If that's the lunchbox, I can only dream of the lunch
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Cold weather camping gear completed. I scored these A-10 trousers which were used by WWII pilots before pressurized cabins were a thing. Alpaca lining from the waist to the knee and wool below that. These appear to be unworn and were made in 1944!! I’m just so stunned by their quality.
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@GraemeE haha!! From one thrift hound to another, your comment means the world to me! I often joke with my buddies that at my funeral mourners will be given a leaflet at the door. It will be a catalog of all of my thrifts, a table summarizing what I paid versus MSRP. The total at the end will be the summation of my life.
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No images, But Mark my antique dealer mate (Mad Mark is what me and P call him), went into a thrift store just north of here a couple of weeks ago. Came out with a small Chippendale era cupboard which he gave £108 for.
Sold it over the phone before he got home for £2,500.....
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Time to change his name to Shrewd Mark
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Mental Mark
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@twin The one from the lunch box story?! That's rad - is there a sign giving any info about it?
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@Inorganic Look up big nickel. There were lots of mines here.
