We went to our first carboot sale of the season on Sunday. It started raining but we still set off because their indoor stalls in a hall in a West Cork village.
The carboot sales are not on a big scale like they are in Blighty but it was good to have a run out and change of scenery.
The wife bought some wool for her knitting projects. Every time a family member or friend is expecting J knits cardigan presents for the new arrivals.
Here's what I bought:
An old antique collecting book. I Googled it and it's for sale for nine Pounds on Abe Books site. I paid one Euros for it.
Old Killarney jaunting car posy vase.
A buffalo made of cast iron I think. He's heavy. What's the difference between a buffalo and a bison? You wash your hands in a bison/basin😊.
Empire State Building plate and cup. I paid 5 Euros for it. I Googled it and found one for 35 Euros.
Writing on underside of plate.
What someone had wrote in the antique collecting book
Irish Ghosts book for a Euro. That should make good reading. Maybe it will be the subject for a blog post?
Have you been car booting recently?
More treasures for the warehouse at Northsider Castle. My favourite is the iron buffalo.Do you think it was manufactured in North America where the buffalo once roamed in their thousands?
ReplyDelete"Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam and you'll get big piles on your carpet". I like the jaunting car posy vase in Killarney and the writing in the antique collectors book. To think it was given during ww2. I like the Irish ghost stories book to. It was a good days Wombling.
ReplyDeleteTat or Treasure it doesn't matter which. You like it so it falls within the treasure category I would think.
ReplyDeleteIt's rather nice to have that inscription in the book. A little piece of personal history.
I agree JayCee. I said it to a lady carbooter seller" You either collect or you sell." I am never going to pass a bargain. West Cork Hoards coming to Rte 1.
Delete..Hoarders even.
DeleteKeeps blinkin' raining here - one site waterlogged!
ReplyDeleteIt's monsoon season here at the moment. Luckily the carboot was in a building yesterday.
ReplyDeleteI keep F away from carboot sales. She furnished her home from places like that years ago and we still live with the evidence. She calls it treasure. The rest of the world would see a mismatched collection of cast-offs. Mind you solid oak furniture had gone out of fashion due to the style and marketing of a certain Swedish brand so we are sitting on a pile of worm-eaten old oak. Should make better firewood than the Swedish stuff when my household have all shuffled off....
ReplyDeleteI think its treasure when you find something you like or a looking for Tigger. I love sauntering around large carboot sales on a glorious summers day. I often walk round them 3 or four times. Your eyes sees something and you miss something else. Any one moving into a flat or house and need stuff to furnish it make attractive or maybe a gardening book or some gardening tools? I agree that old furniture is much better than the modern laminated chipboard that we see in so many stores.
ReplyDeleteOld Furniture! I saw some recently, a youngish couple a couple of blocks over were clearing out "the shed" and they had beautiful pieces loaded into a truck and some were still on the footpath and I almost cried at the thought of someone just getting rid of it. I mentioned to the woman that if I had a house and enough money I would have bought the lot. Most of it looked like solid oak.
DeleteYou sound like me River. It's awful to see something that's quality being thrown away. I don't think there will be antique shops in twenty years time. Everything is for what's in fashion and when it's not to the landfill site with it. I'll keep collecting!
DeleteI'm not an envious person but sad to say I do envy you going to the car boots. They were the highlight of my week and I LOVED them. I doubt I shall ever get to one again. oh well, I shall just have to enjoy seeing your finds. I think I agree with YP, the buffalo is my favourite.
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I'm sorry that you can not go to the carboot sales any more Briony. I think my late parents would have liked the Killarney jaunting car vase and the Empire State Building cup and saucer. Car boot sales are a social occasion if not institution. You never know what you will find or what people you will meet and chat to. I miss the big car boot sales in England. They are like a small second hand stall village. Roll on Summer!
ReplyDeleteIt's great fun going to car boot sales...and to find the gems among the tat!
ReplyDeleteYou never know what you're going to find do you GZ?
ReplyDeleteI'd love to hear about the Irish Ghosts. I haven't been "car-booting" or to thrift shops for a long while. Some things I've seen in the past here have been so highly priced I might as well buy new. Other things are never what I want at the time. Sometimes I've been lucky and found just the thing I want at the right price.
ReplyDeleteThe Irish Ghosts book is right up my street River. It's amazing how many incidences of ghosts have been recorded yet people are still sceptical that they exist. I often buy something and then find it advertised cheaper somewhere else a couple of weeks later.
DeleteNever tat always your treasures. Good haul
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda. A good start to the carboot fishing season. All we need now is some dry weather.
DeleteWhat an eclectic batch of treasure you have found! Do you resell ever?
ReplyDeleteEclectic Dave that's me Debby. I probably will sell some stuff this summer along with the plants I propagate all the time.
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