Yard Sales, Flea Markets and Antique Shops 2024

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Today is a rainy forecast so not many dealers out. I did find a Dinky Recovery Tractor for $5 which is a good price. It's in good condition other than missing it's hook. They are available, I just need to find one that they don't want an arm and a leg to ship.

Yesterday was a decent day Yard Sale Saturday at the one flea market and I found some nice items.

The first is a WWI entrenching pick. Undated with US marked on both the handle and the pick head, standard WWI markings. WWII picks are all dated with the manufacturer. $20









Same guy had what looks like an unused Vietnam era flashlight which will fit nicely with my Vietnam gear set up. The early ones have no protective ears on the switch. Starting in 1973 to the present they have the protective ears to prevent the switch from being turned on accidentally. This is a GT Price which was one of the first producers of the new flashlight. As these are undated, the ears are important for period determination. Has batteries and works. $5.





A fellow near the end of his selling who I've bought things off of for years had some WWI dog tags, $20 and a fork, $2









My big purchase of the day wasn't military related. but very nice. I have collected many things in my life, most started prior to my military collecting and these include toys obviously but one I haven't shared before is milk bottles. I've never gone crazy with them like the military stuff and for the most part kept to local dairy's where I grew up or where I live now. This one isn't far, sort of in between those two locations but the type, condition and price combined for the perfect storm of I had to have it. $40. Proper display of these is to fill them with something white. I've used cotton balls which isn't the best and white pillow stuffing which is cheaper and works great. Haven't gotten any yet which is why the logos are hard to see. I tried to take them so they were not superimposed on each other. Milk bottles in the US were heavily affected by the wars. WWII especially as there are very few surviving bottles from the pre war time period as they were all recycled. Wartime bottles all have propaganda messages on them which are pretty cool, and it makes them very expensive. I do not have any wartime bottles. Post war, they were round, like this one and then in the later years before going to cardboard mass produced cartons, they were square. This one it either late 40's or mid 50's, not sure on reading the date as 48 or 55 but I suspect it's 55. This is only my third gallon milk bottle. The other two are from my local boyhood dairy, one I dug up in a farm dump when I was much younger, the other I paid an arm and a leg for a few years ago.