It's a Bank Holiday here in Ireland giving everyone a day off after Saint Patrick's Day.
The weather forecast was not good but we still got up earlier and drove for over an hour to a carboot sale on a dairy farm.
Here's some photos for your perusal dear readers:
Here are some of our finds. I am sure my American blog friend (Life's Funny Like That) Debby will like our boot finds?
It was a good run out and we satisfied our hoarding addiction. Have you been to any good carboot sales lately?
Would any tv companies like to film an Irish Hoarders programme?
A vegetable post tomorrow again. I bet you can't wait?
I would be more interested in the milk churns in the top photo, but not the price, Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteI have some milk churns Marlene. Two for garden ornaments and one for water.
ReplyDeleteIf I can get one, mine would be used to store all my garden canes, hubby would drill a hole to allow water to drain and put some wire in the bottom, so the canes don't touch the bottom.
DeleteGood idea. I am sure you will find some at a carboot sale, online or at a farm machinery auction. Over here there's a internet buying and selling site called Done Deal.
DeleteDon't know about the milk churns but I would definitely be hanging about considering my options on those Dutch ovens lingering beside them
DeleteAre Dtch ovens good Tigger's Mum? I am not familiar with them.
DeleteThe to y jug is lovely . Well worth whatever you paid for it I'm sure. You and your brother are both collectors then
ReplyDeleteThe Toby Jug is Beswick and I would say quite old Linda. I am always collecting stuff and I only buy things I like myself or for someone who I know what they like. You never know what you will find. Yesterday we went to a carboot sale and didn't buy anything.
ReplyDeleteDo you know what a Toby is, Dave?
ReplyDeleteIs it a beer drinking jug GZ? I know that you will know with you being a potter. I once owned a Jack Russell terrier called Toby.
ReplyDeleteNo, far from it...it is the official person running a market. Taking the bookings, organising the stalls, a coordinator between stallholders and local council and a great help. So a Toby jug is a portrait of the man in the hat!
DeleteThanks GZ for the heads up. I read that the Toby jug is based on a character from Twelth Night. The Shakespeare play not the English Prog Rock band.
DeleteThat's a cool bit of trivia, gz. I've always known them to be named after "Toby the Tippler". It seems to have started off as one thing and then morphed into something completely different as Staffordshire and Royal Doulton began creating them.
DeleteWill you be building a new extension to house all your treasures?
ReplyDeleteWe have more than one dwelling JayCee.
ReplyDeleteI like the toby jug. He looks like a farmer or small allotment holder and he has just emerged from his poly-tunnel yelling, "GET OFF MY LAND! THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY!"
ReplyDeleteHe does look nowty YP. I think he's been on the top shelf.
ReplyDeleteI think he's been bartering for Jerusalem artichokes and putting disposable nappies on piglets.
DeleteMaybe YP. He's not an happy bunny is he?
DeleteLooks like he could do with a night in "The Red Lion" supping Newcastle Brown Ale before chomping on a doner kebab while swaying homewards.
DeleteI would buy him a bottle of dog. She's a right one that Donna Kebab.
DeleteI like your finds. I am trying to stay away from sales and thrift stores, there's so much stuff here already that is just "stuff" and not at all useful. I have actually begun getting rid of some of it.
ReplyDeleteI like finding old pottery River and they will make a profit when I sell them one day if I want ro make some money and space for new finds.
ReplyDeleteValuable finds at your boot sale. I just find dross!
ReplyDeleteThe biggest carboot sales have the best finds Jabblog. We found nothing on Sunday and yesterday we found nice stuff. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteYes, Dave, it goes without saying that you should absolutely give us the prices on your finds. Then the custom is that I respond with an intake of breath, and reply, "Luckyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!" The next report must be how much you sold them for. We all then raise a toast to Dave and Mrs. Dave, who know how to play the game!
ReplyDeleteSharp intake of breath Debby. I spent fifty Euros for everything. Five Wedgewood trinkets= ten Euros. I have seen them online start at 18 Euros each. Toby Jug = twenty Euros. Seen the same on antique sites for fifty Euros/Pounds. Cottage ware teapot and biscuit barrel = 20 Euros for both. They sell for 40 each in Antiques shops and online. Not a bad haul really.
ReplyDeleteLUCK-YYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
DeleteYes there are bargains to find Debby if you're prepared to get up early and travel and walk around the carboot sale at least three times. You always miss something and you see more when there are two of you searching. We spent 20 Euros on diesel and bought hamburgers at McDonald's for 5 Euros each. It was a good day unlike Sunday when we found nothing.
DeleteI love wandering about and looking. Not all who wander are lost. Some of you are winning!
DeleteWandering about and looking is like fishing Debby. Sometimes the fish aren't biting and then one day they are.
Delete"Beswick Toby Jug"
ReplyDeleteAh, is that what it's called! My grandmother collected jugs and I have three similar to what you show here, but I think smaller and they are little men dressed up fancy. I'll post a photo on my blog once I find the cord I've misplaced to transfer pics on my phone. Here (Saskatchewan, Canada) we don't call these sales "boot" sales but they're either auctions or garage sales or yard sales. I love the two latter and have never attended the former. And am running out of places to keep things! -Kate
Beswick made the Toby jug Kate. We are always collecting. Thanks for your comment. I'm a great fan of Rush, Saga and April Wine. Great Canadian bands.
ReplyDeleteI have two Toby jugs and neither is a Beswick.
ReplyDeleteAny chance of a post about them River?
ReplyDeleteThat would be interesting. I've just posted pics of the three I have, but apparently (according to River) have misnamed them. So they are just Toby jugs, period; not Beswick jugs. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThanks Stubblejumpers Cafe. I will pop over to your blog.
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