Sunday, November 18, 2012

Garden Pavers / Chicago Common Brick

Status: Available
Price: $20

Sorry I don't have a picture. I have approximately 60 Chicago common bricks available; average to good condition, mostly reddish and orange in color. Must take them all, cannot sell individually. I have them in a pile and ready to go but cannot help you load your car.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Vintage Collector Barn Plates, $3 Each


Dragonware Tea Set

Status: Available
Price: $50

Vintage Dragonware tea set. We have a separate set of cups and saucers available.

 

Dragonware Teacups 5 cups and Saucers

Status: Available
Price: $25

Vintage dragonware marked "Made in Japan." Five cups and saucers in good condition.

 

Guitar, Case, Stand, and Autotuner

Status: Sold
Price: $100

I bought this guitar with every intent of learning how to play, but it has sat in the corner of my office, unloved. Sale includes the guitar, the case, which has backpack straps, the stand and a tuner. Price is firm, and a bargain.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

RCA Victor Victrola Suitcase Phonograph -- Works

 Status: Available
Price: $80

 



The phonograph does work, and I'll throw in a half dozen or so 78 rpm records to get you started.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

1950s Philco Transitone Tube Radio Model 53-560

Status: Sold
Price: $35

Vintage Philco Transitone with a gorgeous ivory-colored dial. Case in very good condition. Model 53-560. Intact labels on bottom. Untested. Part of a radio collection we're trying to downsize.

~ 200 Radio / TV Repair Booklets from 1940s and 1950s

Status: Sold
Price: $25

~200 booklets from a vintage radio and television repair correspondence course; each is different.

~ 70 Vintage Quilt Magazines

Status: SOLD!
Price: $50

We are selling these for my mother; some of the magazines date back to the 1980s, most within the last six years. Approximately seventy in all, including several recent Irish Quilting import magazines. You won't find so many at such a low price again.

Handmade St. Patrick's Day Quilt Place Mats


Status: Sold
Price: Four for $10


We'll throw in another set of place mats if you buy these.  :-)

Genuine Wood Leather and Brass Horsecollar Mirror

Status: SOLD


I love it, my husband doesn't, and in our quest to downsize we decided it can go. It needs a cleaning, but the leather is in really good shape.


Go on, you know you always wanted a horse collar mirror.

Vintage Drake Hotel Hinsdale Bell

Status: Available
Price: $30


We picked this bell up at a rural barn sale about 15 years ago. The tag on it reads Drake Hotel Hinsdale. I'm not entirely sure if the tag is part of the original bell, or if it was added later. It could be an old hotel keyring. Part of our vintage bell collection that we're trying to downsize.

Vintage Kitchen Scale

Status: Sold
Price: $25


Part of our vintage kitchen collection that we're trying to downsize.

Vintage Canfield Kitchen Mixer

Status: Available
Price: $20


Part of our vintage kitchen collection that we're trying to downsize. I think this is about fifty years old.

 

Vintage 1940s Stenotype / Stenograph Machine

Status: Available
Price: $25



We picked this one up at an estate sale a few years ago, and now it's time to pass it along to the next home. Still includes a roll of paper.

Antique Hand Truck / Dolly (Dollie)

Status: Sold
Price: $150


We used this for years as a coffee table and then as a plant stand. We love it, we just don't have room for it in the current house.

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Vintage Stoneware Mineral Water Bottle G. W. Waugh Sheffield England

Status: Available
Price: $15


Vintage Wooden Retki Karhu Skis from Finland

Status: Available
Price: $50

We originally purchased these at an estate sale in the 80s and had them hanging in our stairwell ever since. Unfortunately, they don't work as well in the new place and it's time to find them a new home.


Noritake Cheramy 87197 China Dishes Service for 12, Japan, $795


Status: SOLD!
Price: $795

This set of antique Noritake Cheramy 87197 dishes were a wedding gift to my parents. They are about 80 years old and are in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks, or crazing. Hand painted and made in Japan.

Service for 12. Pieces include:

12 dinner places
12 salad/bread plates
12 bread n butter plates
12 soup bowls
12 dessert/sauce bowls
12 cups with matching saucers
1 large platter 16 1/4 inches
1 small platter 11 3/4
Sugar bowl with lid
Creamer
Gravy boat with attached plate
2 vegetable bowls
1 round, covered vegetable bowl

To buy these pieces individually would cost well over $2000. You can have the entire set for $795.00. Write me at editor(a)compassrose.com for more information, or post your questions here and I'll answer them as soon as I can. Thanks!








Verona 2 Light Flush Mount Ceiling Fixture, Brand New in Box

Status: Available
Price: $50.00

We bought this light fixture a while back, but it's a little too big for the spot we were considering. Features aged golden copper finish with copper vintage scavo glass shade. Uses 2-60 watt (fan) bulbs. Originally $220.00.

Brand New in Box!


Weight: 25 lbs
Size: 6 inches high, 15 inches wide

1918 Vintage Catalog of Patriotic Victor Records / Phonograph, Victrola

Status: Available
Price: $25

Overall good condition. Light crease in middle. Four-page list of Patriotic records from the First World War, published in 1918. Bottom edge uneven (see photo) as if trimmed.

1916 Photograph of Two Women Playing a Victrola

 Status: Available!
 Price: $85



The women are identified as Flossie Sanders and Mamie Goff on the back, along with the date 1916. Very crisp, detailed, and sharp image, which my own photo of it didn't convey. Long side measures about eight inches.