Our Shopping List

A few of the things we're looking for:

 SPECIAL PIECES:

  • Stained or leaded glass windows
  • Trench Art
  • Tramp Art
  • Old Hudson's Bay & Timothy Eatons
  • Advertising Displays
  • Ornamental iron
  • Hutches, Hoosiers, old pioneer & homemade furniture
  • Folk art paintings, carvings, sculptures
  • Handmade hooked rugs
  • Antique & vintage native beadwork
  • Small cream cans (less than 1 gallon)
  • Salesman's samples
  • Specialty pieces of Nippon, Noritake, Limoges, Sevres, Crown Darby, etc.
  • Railroad memorabilia (specially NAR and Grand Trunk)
  • Old trade signs - wood, porcelain or tin
  • Almost anything hand crafted by your great, great grandfather
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    STOCK ITEMS: 

  • Old hats
  • Old fishing & hunting equipment (lures, decoys, oars, etc.)
  • Oil & grease cans (En-ar-co, Red Head, Red Indian, Mobil Oil, B/A, White Rose)
  • Old whirligigs
  • Old kitchen & spice, coffee, tea tins
  • Old wooden ladders, milking stools, benches
  • Old tin & metal toys, wooden carved & painted toys
  • Costume jewelry, especially rhinestones
  • Pocket tobacco tins (flat, rectangular)
  • Old food & spice tins & pails, especially Canadian manufacturers - Lard tins, peanut butter pails & honey pails
  • Stoneware crocks & jugs (Medalta, Redwing or with designs or advertising)
  • Old western spurs & straps 
  • Old bottles & sealers (embossed, light purple or aqua)
  • Washboards
  • Wood handled & hand forged tools
  • Humpback & wooden trunks
  • Old wooden crates & boxes 
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