re: A couple interesting finds in my recent garages sale hunting ***update in OP

I found a magnalite casserole dish for $10. I am going to list it today. Seems to sell for around $75. But it is the old USA one so maybe more.
My Starbucks cup is up to $15 (I paid 3) and ends today. Most sell around 25-30. I also have sold more ornaments that endedast night. Not too bad if I can ship all at one time. Gives me something to do while working from home.

I ended up flipping the magnalite piece on marketplace for $80 so a quick $70 profit and I did not have to ship. I have only sold 4 things on ebay so far and I have made $100 so no big money yet lol. But it did turn $10 into 100. I had a good weekend at my booth last weekend so I restocked there instead of listing and now I have 3 more boxes to restock there this week. I may also try mecari because a few groups have said vintage sells well there.

One of these days antiquetiger you're gonna come across that 1980 national championship trophy. Excellent finds.

that would have made for a good mantle piece. In your opinion what has been your best find?

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In your opinion what has been your best find?

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My coolest find would be the mini basketball given out at Maravich’s last home game at LSU. It was signed by Pete and his dad. I paid $1 for it. Sold it to my friend that got the trophy above for $400 (signatures were not good).

My highest dollar single item was a pair of AR-3 speakers. I paid $275, sold for $1600+.

My highest percentage dollar item would be a 1950’s (forget exact year) comic book “Thund’a” #1. I paid $2, sold for $700+.

My highest profit off a collection I bought is when I bought an entire collection of Megos and Six Million Dollar Man toys. I paid $150 (his asking price), sold for nearly $7000. This collection is what got me learning vintage toys, and become a decent vintage toy expert.

My best heart felt finds was finding the stolen Bowl watches of Pop Strange and getting them back to his family, and finding Bert Jones’s letterman jacket and getting it back to him (I did have to sell it back to him for what I paid for it, $200), and got a free dinner at Ruffino’s out of it. I had a couple people offer me $1000+ for it. The Strange family gave me one of the watches, and would not take it back when I sold my LSU collection. They told me to sell it. The had two of them. I sold it for $600. It did cost me nearly $300 to get it fixed.
The watch story ties back into the mini basketball story above. The estate sale company was forced to give the watches to the Strange family because they were stolen, and refused to give me back all of my $700 I paid for them. He only gave me back $600 because the Strange family wanted to give me $100 reward (which I would not take). So at their next sale, I find that ball (marked $1) and said thank you. I go back to the sale the next day and tell them “frick you”, and tell them what I found at their sale.

Other notables, I paid $1700 for the original pano photograph taken at the first game in Tiger Stadium. I got permission to reproduce it, sold quite a few, made a few thousand dollars, then sold the photograph and rights for quite a bit (more than I paid for it).

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wow. What pano picture specifically? The one in your avatar?

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No, that’s horseshoe shaped, so that’s 40’s probably.
I don’t have a copy any more but it was in the 1925 yearbook, and measured 9”x44”. I believe it’s in view at Roosters’ barbershop on Highland and Old Perkins.

Yeh I wouldn't think that was the photo but I wasn't sure. Only asking because I see the horseshoe photo everywhere and that would be pretty cool if you had the original.

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K&B pencils for $20.00

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That’s cool

I forgot I got this last weekend, paid $2