Yard Sales, Flea Markets and Antique Shops 2024

[shadycon]

Next weekend Hillsville, Va. annual Labor day flea market and gun show. Venders all over town for 3 days

[Aragorn243]

Another slow weekend, just a canteen set. I have the cup and cover already but it is a really nice cover. I had intended to just buy that as it was sold separately by a second fellow but needed the canteen and the cup came with it. Set was $25.00 total so not bad.

Almost forgot, I did get a WWII gas mask cloth tin for $1.00.

[browningautorifle]

Nice clean canteen cover.

[HOOKED ON HISTORY]

Annual Labor day flea market

Happy Hunting

[Aragorn243]

Yeah, that yard sale sounds pretty awesome but it's a five-hour drive and we have a crap load of stuff going on all weekend. My one big community sale is that Saturday, the one I bought the mint No 4 Enfield at years ago. Haven't gotten anything that nice since, in fact the past couple of years has been a complete bust. Monday is the big sports auction I go too. Looking at a Jim Palmer autographed Jersey this year. It's a benefit sale so we look to spend a couple hundred at it.

If you go, post details. If it's really good, I may make the trip.

[ssgross]

I'm trying to talk the rest of my house into going. Not too far for me. Kids are sold on going, but no word yet from the one with veto authority.

[Aragorn243]

Slow again this weekend. Yesterday I bought a spoon, a 23" spoon. BICO no date so likely after the 1960's. At the big yard sale I mentioned above I found a guy with some WWII official military photos. I bought one of them. Kind of neat, would be an entire new thing to collect but they aren't exactly cheap so I'm not really going to pursue it. Average price seems to be around $10 a pop and while that is a lot less than many of the other things I buy, there are probably tens of thousands of these photos out there. So, if I find one, I like, I'll get it but otherwise, not actively pursuing. Having some photo uploading issues today so they will come later. It's a photo of a crashed Italian plane in the North African desert.

[ssgross]

I made it down to hillsville with my boy afterall. Headed over to the gunshow portion certainly. If any friends here want to grab lunch coffee etc, hit me up.

[shadycon]

I went yesterday morning; only saw 3 carbines. 1 restored $2k. 1 plainfield $1400, commercial M1a1. Good turnout .

[ssgross]

The highlight was spending a 4.5 hr road trip and a whole day with my son. He found some good Atari games to add to his vintage gaming collection, and some old baseball bats. He uses the older wood ones for pickup practice with friends. Balls don't go as far means less picking them out of the woods when they go over the fence.
The gun show part was thoroughly disappointing. I saw a field grade garand, Springfield, 50% finish on the receiver, with a new CMP stock, and a price tag of $2600, and a pre-64 winchester featherweight clearly heavily molested and refinished for much the same price range. Ammo/powder vendors haven't gotten the memo that the pandemic is over, and all the mad rush of the last 3.5 years has subsided the demand this cycle. I didn't see anything on tables that isn't regularly seen at my local cabala's.
None of the surplus vendors had anything older than 1990's. I was hoping for a couple odd 03' parts, usually easy to find at such a place in a bin among other bits, to get ready for an upcoming project. But nada.