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The bottles, insulators, and mason jar thread and other cool finds (even bunnys fans)
February 4, 2012 at
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Well it was an estate sale but kind of like a hoarders place. The lady and guy running it said there was about 1/4 of what had originally been in there. I got a big industrial westinghouse fan for $3 and an assortment of telegraph insulators an old glass clorox bottle for $4. My wife got an antique mirror they had priced at $25 for $10. she said she could tell by the glass it was old.
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I was looking through the 18 mason jars i bought the other week and some are really small ones. I originally got the whole lot because he said there were 3 half gallon size.
One of these small blue mason jars is square.
Id love some book recommendations on mason jar collecting and insulator collecting. This one i saw on Amazon was like $300 a paper thing published in 1975. Im not spending $300 on something i cant see inside.
I was looking through the 18 mason jars i bought the other week and some are really small ones. I originally got the whole lot because he said there were 3 half gallon size.
One of these small blue mason jars is square.
Id love some book recommendations on mason jar collecting and insulator collecting. This one i saw on Amazon was like $300 a paper thing published in 1975. Im not spending $300 on something i cant see inside.
Here's some info on jars.
http://www.av.qnet.com/~glassman/info/jarfaq.htm
http://www.masonjars.o
more links...
https://www.google.com/search?hl=...00
A good way to get an idea of the value of a jar would be to look for ones on sale online and completed ebay auctions to see how much that particular jar sold for in the past.
Here's some info on jars.
http://www.av.qnet.com/~glassman/info/jarfaq.htm
http://www.masonjars.o
more links...
https://www.google.com/search?hl=...00
A good way to get an idea of the value of a jar would be to look for ones on sale online and completed ebay auctions to see how much that particular jar sold for in the past.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayIS...true&r
They were made by Owens Illinois Glass Company thats is still making glassware these days. Usually my wife tells me to ignore the clear glass ones because they are probably modern but I mainly got them for the zinc lids. Infact some of them had regular screw caps and there were mayonaise jars full of screws and bolts and stuff so i swapped out a few of the zinc lids on those for the mason jars that had mayonaise lids.
Everything washed well in the dishwasher and now alot of my blue ball mason jars are happy with their new zinc lids
That ebay listing has some nice closeups and zoom which with my lacking photography skills id never be able to do.
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/PINT-CLEA...97329579
http://www.ehow.com/how_4896816_i..
There are a couple of estate sales this next weekend that seem to have jars of marbles in them. One had a blue mason jar full. As with all of these estate sales you never know how much they are asking for them or wether it will even still be there when i show up.
http://www.ehow.com/how_4896816_identify-antique-marbles.html
There are a couple of estate sales this next weekend that seem to have jars of marbles in them. One had a blue mason jar full. As with all of these estate sales you never know how much they are asking for them or wether it will even still be there when i show up.
Was at an estate auction one time when a jar full of marbles came up for auction. Two guys were bidding on it and the price kept going up really fast with both of them scowling at the other. Finally one guy dropped out and the other guy went over to the jar, opened it, pulled out one marble, put it in his pocket then walked away. Don't know what it looked like, couldn't see it from that far away but it must have been some marble as it sold for several hundred dollars, don't recall the exact amount.
Was at an estate auction one time when a jar full of marbles came up for auction. Two guys were bidding on it and the price kept going up really fast with both of them scowling at the other. Finally one guy dropped out and the other guy went over to the jar, opened it, pulled out one marble, put it in his pocket then walked away. Don't know what it looked like, couldn't see it from that far away but it must have been some marble as it sold for several hundred dollars, don't recall the exact amount.
Clear marbles with a figure/object inside it are worth quite a bit but beware of repros.
Aggies are always valuable, especially if they're in good condition.
Large or unusual sized marbles (especially with the twisted swirl in them) are usually worth quite a bit. These too could be repros but I don't think there are as many fakes of them, could be wrong.
Clay marbles with a fired glaze that are in good shape are worth money. Rare glaze colors are more valuable, like green, yellow, etc. Brown and blue are more common.
Nicks (aka: flea bites) hurt the value of most marbles unless it's a really rare one.
Don't ever clean or try to polish a marble, you'll ruin the value of it. Patina is everything when you're trying to resell marbles.
There, that's all I can recall off the top of my head about marbles. There's a lot more to them than just that.
I thought this old brass ship's bulkhead light was awesome. I'm going to rewire it and use it to replace the cheap light in my sauna.
I also picked up a couple of these vintage Swing-A-Way can openers. We had one of these when I was growing up and I always think they are cool when I see them. We still have one at hunting camp that gets used regularly I'm seriously thinking about finding a place to hang one of these in my kitchen. It will fit right in since the house was built in 1965 and doesn't appear to have been changed much since then.
This is my recent favorite. An old compression gauge for checking engine compression. I plan to change the fitting on the end and use it for a pressure gauge for the air compressor in my shop.
Beats the heck out of the standard pressure gauge
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I thought this old brass ship's bulkhead light was awesome. I'm going to rewire it and use it to replace the cheap light in my sauna.