What was your best find?

I've never been a professional picker, as seen on TV, but I did stop at a yard sale once, and buy a Classics Illustrated comic book that was a half-century old. That was fun. And I moved into a house that had in the garage attic, a nearly hundred year old Frigidaire sign, which I was able to sell to a real picker, for a thousand bucks. That was even nicer.

You don't have to be a professional picker to respond here.
The best thing I ever found and resold was a toy machine gun.

Some of best things I ever found. I kept. Like my Fuso racing bike.

30 yrs. ago I found a 40yr old set of auto alignment gauges...still have them.
estimate value about $1500...pd.$25

The other day. I felt like I shopped all day. I was looking for some auto repair manuals at a local thrift store. They didn't have any.

I turned and looked and there was this old church book. It wasn't a bible. It was all in Latin I bought it for $3.

I wanted a quick sale so I sold it for a hundred dollars in two hours it took.

A recent national news item here in the UK regarding a ring bought at a car boot sale for £10.00 approximately 30 years ago and thought to be costume jewellery, turned out to be genuine. The lady bought it because she liked it and had worn it often, sometimes during house cleaning. She thought the ring setting paste but maybe the ring itself was gold so she took it in recently for a valuation intending to sell, turns out the ring is well over 100 - 150 years old and it's a real diamond, apparently diamonds were cut differently then so had much less sparkle. Value £350,000. for the diamond alone, over a third of a million pounds! I don't search myself, but it shows what you can find at car boot sales.

I know a guy who looks at jewelry. He has found several diamonds at goodwill. I don't know jewelry. I like Hard Rock Café Pins.

I found an Elvis doll. Brand new still in the box. I gave it to my niece who is crazy about Elvis

Use to hit the garage sales all the time.. Mainly to furnish my house with knick knacks decorative items..

I have never sold anything I have found for a profit due I use the items even antique ones...

But I have been able to score some really kewl items well they are to me anyway...

A friend of mine curbed this Antique Grand fathers Clock type cabinet. I told him if he ever moved and did not want it that I did. He was known just to pick up and move and leave stuff for he curbed a lot of stuff...Sure enough less then a year later it was mine and have had it for at least 15 years myself..

It has a clock at the top that is on it's on you can pull it out and there is a space to hide stuff..Lol (Use to hide my Crown back there when my kids were growing up) just below the pictures is a pull out it is the Radio if you look right below that I have the next one pulled down it is a turn table.... it came with wireless speakers two of them the main box actually has the old glass tubes in it and it all still works..

This pic was taken before I re-did my living room several years ago.. Still have it and fixing to re-do the extra bedroom with all antiques..

oh man...so my brutha and I were dumpster divers as kids..

we used to live in apt complex with those big ole green dumpsters

ok so this was way back in the 70's

once we found some really cool pottery

plates, coffee mugs bowls someone had made in art class but did not want

we lived on campus

my brutha found a big stack of nooody mags but ma made him throw those back

I live in a college town so every May I see stuff at edge of road

the kids were too lazy to move or ran out of room

there are people who go around and pick it all up for yard sales

I used to go to auctions, yard sales, thrift stores

and then sell stuff on ebay when I was still married

was a lot of fun actually...let's see

I paid a dollar for an old coffee grinder

and sold it for a hundred bucks

I remember watching something on the news here years ago and someone had managed to buy what looked like a worthless trinket in a car boot sale.

Turned out to be a Faberge egg. Can't remember how much it was worth but a fair few shilling.

I paid $10 for an old corner desk at an Amish sale a few years ago. It is in perfect condition but faded. While I was cleaning it I noticed Ethan Allen stamped on the underside. I wondered how much it is really worth but I love it so I'm not looking to sell.

One thing I do look for when flea marketing is those old bottles with the wired ceramic stoppers. I have some old pumpkin cider ones (a pair) that are very artistic.

I stalk the Goodwill now and then and a lot of my holiday decorations come from there, and plates & glassware. I do not know how valuable any of it was and I have never tried to resell it, but I do know what retail prices are because I am a Shopper. So I know I have outfitted Christmas at a fraction of the retail cost.....same w/ my kitchen.

My best find was a set of Currier and Ives highball glasses

Reading the topic, I thought this post was about the great guitar pickers...T-Bone Walker, Les Paul,Clapton, SRV,Atkins, Roy Clark, Jerry Reed, etc.

I got a guitar the other day a Stella Sundale.
Looks like it's going to be a hit on eBay.
It's got one bid and 17 watchers

The automotive-themed finishes they were factory-painted with makes them unique. (I play a Strat and LP myself.)