I had a good, if mixed bag day today, Then I had a short power nap as my head was aching behind my eyes. That helped.
Longish drive (the HS FM 26 miles away, but this has become my favorite honey hole lately...) the car shed the left front hubcap I discovered on arrival - irritating as I just had new tires mounted, so clearly they didn't get the cap on tight...
Anyway: from the Flea a slow start but cool finds:
I started at this booth with the Concho's, then some shotgun/rifle cleaning brushes, and a brass/bronze cleaning jag I haven't seen before, and 2 Long C packs of Abrasive disks, same from some other source with a lambs wool polishing bonnet (zero "Wear eye protectin" or other safety reminders; so showing their age...) $3 all!
Almost missed a pic of this on: A replacement generator for Coleman single mantle lanterns (242 and 200 series all take the same one) $7, which is cheap compared to what new or NOS cost these days.
A 4 piece very light weight bamboo "Mayflower" Fly/Spin cast rod, likely made in Postwar Japan, not stellar quality, but in great shap.e, and I was happy to hand over $6. What I really like about it is the handle can be reversed for either fly or spin cast reels..
Same place had the Brass LL Bean Candle lantern for $3 -Turned out to have a chunk of the glass "globe" broken out, but the piece is there and I have it being super glued now. SG works well on cracked Coleman Globes, so this should be fine.
The small Barcalo WP pliers were from a later YS, for a buck
My Last piece from the FM was this Stove. the guy started at $50 which wasn't bad, but I ddin't want it that bad. I got it for $30.
1920s (Working on narrowing the MFG date) Prentiss-Wabers, Model No. 4 patented Auto-Cook-Kit. Stove. Brass Tank; you lift it and the burners up, shift to the left, and stow inside. Came with the pump and original funnel, so complete. It should clean up nice!
All the yard sales planned produced; mostly the TOO's didn't:
Purple bowel/vase/Candle holders for my oldest daughter (her fave color), Hubard's Shoe Oil (near full), and the coaster (Viking ship motif) were $5, the booklet and Turquoise pendant a buck each.
A GOOD yard sale for tools, I could have picked 5X as much, but was cherry picking -all this (2 pics) for $20:
3 side grip Vise Grips - Irwin but these came late in the life of Peterson, Herbrand DOE, 2 SO Combos, an Indestro DBE, 4" Crescent, I wasn't going to take the 8" but it's marked PG&E, and no Mfg marks? had the hanger hole code: U>12>1?, Diamond WP plies (my day for smalls), Klein Dykes, and Boker made in Germany mini Electricians pliers.
Stil same place: Gunk iol can, Wrench stack Clip, Stanley No. 1220 hand drill (Mising the off side knob - No clue why it was even considered needed? takes three hands if you try to use it...), 3 Proto Drivers, 1 P&C, 1 Whia, 1 SO, and anold Log C era geometric Craftsman "professinoal" driver -My first of this style!
Later Yard sales: $2 for the Prop, cents .25 for the Pautzkes bait jar - bait was petrified and on cleanup I discovered the cap was rusted through, -OK for display - not so much for any other use... the "Bottle" socket, MAC combo, Chisel handle, and hinge handle Driver were a Buck for all.
All in al a decent day! Tools, the Stove and generator, the Bamboo rod as highlights, I'm happy