Your treasures from a jumble sale / boot fair / flea market

We had a trip to the local carboot a couple of weeks ago (Corbridge NE45, wednesdays during the summer), it seems to be a mix of traders (same ones every week) and "normal" folk" just spring-cleaning.
Some weird and lovely items, some bargains, some would be cheaper to buy new   

SHMBO spotted (and got me to pay for  ) an accordion in a case.
A lovely bit of engineering, working fine, for £20 ( I had a look when we got back what they normally sell for   )
Aplogies for the pic quailty, I was playing with the new toy not operating the camera !

Since ive been showing this to people to try and find out something about it ive had a number of people say it must be trench art, but ive got no closer to finding out what it might be worth, so ive taken my chances and chucked it in auction at 99p start. If anything it'll be interesting to see what it does on its own without having a stab in the dark and putting a price on it.

You are just too fussy, you need to buy stuff for a project or two that you are never going to start, once the shed etc is full then you can attend the car boot as a seller and turn your treasure back to cash.

I drove 45 mins this morning it was rubbish, bough a small anvil

£.1.00

Bad Taste Bear.



20p buys a cat.



Total of under £16.00

I thought he was pretty cool for the price, would have paid up to £1.00 for him.

Some stuff just hooks into your head.


Over at Katy's for the weekend.

She does not do bootfairs, bit of a snob........

But yesterday afternoon we went to a bootfair about 5 miles from her place.

Not massive, and no traders, which is a good thing.

Loads of random stuff, mostly older people selling stuff they paid too much for 20 years ago when it was in vogue.

First item, not photographed is a large, read efficient, hairdryer for £3.00 to replace the one that she had at my place for her visits, as the old one blew up. Happy with that.
Katy got a paperback for 50p for her holiday in Greece.
And she got a pack of thermal socks for her brother.

Found this sign in French, which I do not read, for £1.00 but perfect for a random wall on the shed.

£1.00 bargain in my world, ally backed as well and great condition.



Same lady had this plate..... for £2.00

Why?? I hear you ask.

Dennis' partner Debbie collects Christmas stuff amongst others, and this is outside of her remit, but last year I found her a very collectible side plate that I posted out, badly wrapped and it got broken, so his one is to "replace" that one, it is of Sandringham which to her, as a Royal watcher, may have some value.
Just need to pack it more securely before I post it out this time.



Another ornament, this time for Katy at cost of £1.00
She has three that I bought before for £5.00 and has them hanging around her house.
Happy girl.



Lastly, at 50p a piggy getting sick the morning after.

This is for her younger daughter, who like many youngsters, has not realised that alcohol will always win if you over do it.

Katy always makes her a little parcel of stuff when she heads back to Uni, so this will be included.

I doubt that she will get the message, but worth the laugh.



No bootfairs today though.

Off to take little princess to lunch.

My local bootfairs have changed.

The bigger one has shut down, so as a result the smaller one has got bigger and lost its character.

Loads of buyers and sellers.

But it sucked......

Got a small metal sign, Oil paining, and some clothes pegs for Christmas cards.

But I have had a good weekend.

Someone would give you at least £50 for that on ebay . Old seperates are great , my brother has our dads old silver chrome JVC amp from about 1983 . Still going strong and no matter what speakers we have put on it , it still only ever operates at about 60% capacity .

Cant believe someone would chuck that !

Cant grumble at the Sony stacker! Good reliable units, nice score! Had a similer deal a while back, my aunts neighbour had bought a new mini unit because their old Technics stacker unit with wharfdale speakers had started sounding naff, so aunt suggested id give them something for it. They refused my offer and just gave it to me. First thing I tried was new wire, and that was all it needed, great sound, cant see a reason to change it. I returned with chocolate and beer.

Today, carbooting. No plans to go until I woke up at 7.30, so off i trotted.



Some rough Hotwheels for chopping up, a Monster Jam Grave Digger for the nephew (until i decided to keep it), 2 friction drive monster trucks for the nephew, and a Scalextric sierra for 50p which is mint.



Alien Legacy Mini Maglite, mint unused, batteries still work and are dated 2003. And some CDs.





2 nice large mugs. Cant have enough large mugs, and a Snap on mug. And a red glass union jack candle holder that caught the sun and looked nice.



Some Teacs. Mint and sound amazing as my neighbours will probably tell me sooner or later. The CD's have been tested.

plus a burger, drink, and entry fee. Still trying to work out how I only spent £30

Also bought some 6.5in speakers for the car, fitted them and removed them, already in the bin, they are poo. But i got them free with the Teacs.