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What Else Are You Finding At Thrift Stores?

Duracuir1
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We go in looking for watches, and I pick up a lot of baseball gloves. But what else are we finding?

Here, something interesting. Hair on goat skin. An area was shaved and used as canvass. Colours so vibrant that I thought it was a glued on poster.

St George slaying the dragon.
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Not hanging in the house. Sort of in semi quarantine - in the apartment above the garage.

I also found a baseball glove for watch straps, and a really nice and thick bracelet for my Bulova. It was part of a ten dollar jar of cheap watches.
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What have you found?
 
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Duracuir1 Duracuir1
We go in looking for watches, and I pick up a lot of baseball gloves. But what else are we finding?

Here, something interesting. Hair on goat skin. An area was shaved and used as canvass. Colours so vibrant that I thought it was a glued on poster.

St George slaying the dragon.
BD867417-E0DA-40A1-BCF8-0B5871FD7CCF.jpeg B95FBFE7-6D8C-412E-A317-9FC0ABC5E281.jpeg AE97EF00-D4E1-40FF-8B5C-9D7C8C2BE8D1.jpeg
Not hanging in the house. Sort of in semi quarantine - in the apartment above the garage.

I also found a baseball glove for watch straps, and a really nice and thick bracelet for my Bulova. It was part of a ten dollar jar of cheap watches.
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What have you found?
Oooo, sexy mesh on the Milships.
 
sheepdoll
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Hah.
Here the thrift stores are so picked over, there is harly anything left.
The main one Goodwill will not even sell watches in the store anymore.
Salvation army seems to be focusing on it's mission and works, not to mention the seasonal bell ringers and donation kettles(tm).
Might be a few independents, most of those call themselves consignment stores or even 'antique' stores. Usually shared space cooperatives.

The ewaste recycler next to the dump, sometimes has interesting stuff. Mostly old computers, cameras and such. Not that I need more stuff. I got carried away this year puchacing junk cameras and scrap watches from online thrift shops. (the dog though came from the Zurich airport.) The moon I have had for years.

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Duracuir1
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sheepdoll sheepdoll
Hah.
Here the thrift stores are so picked over, there is harly anything left.
The main one Goodwill will not even sell watches in the store anymore.
Salvation army seems to be focusing on it's mission and works, not to mention the seasonal bell ringers and donation kettles(tm).
Might be a few independents, most of those call themselves consignment stores or even 'antique' stores. Usually shared space cooperatives.

The ewaste recycler next to the dump, sometimes has interesting stuff. Mostly old computers, cameras and such. Not that I need more stuff. I got carried away this year puchacing junk cameras and scrap watches from online thrift shops. (the dog though came from the Zurich airport.) The moon I have had for years.

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Years ago I got my Wittnauer Polara for $2.50. Distant relative to some of your specimens.
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I was wearing it this morning. You need to press a button to see what time it is, or look at your phone!
 
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Duracuir1 Duracuir1
I also found a baseball glove for watch straps, and a really nice and thick bracelet for my Bulova. It was part of a ten dollar jar of cheap watches.
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What have you found?
Interesting it is Ecco leather. Same logo as the shoe company. And the leather company.
https://eccoleather.com/
 
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Duracuir1 Duracuir1
Years ago I got my Wittnauer Polara for $2.50. Distant relative to some of your specimens.
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I was wearing it this morning. You need to press a button to see what time it is, or look at your phone!
That is cool. Reminds me of a robot or diving bell.
 
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Around here when you do find anything it’s usually priced silly high, like Pulsars and Seikos asking $300+ for watches that are junk grade. I think the stories of thrift shop watch finds and how widely they already might have had a hand in that.
 
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Thrift shop buy earlier this year, 5 Bucks.
As I got it, no cosmetic work required just a standard service.

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My wife bought this at a charity shop recently for $30. Pity it's a redial....

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I have an absolutely fantastic thrift store near my house. Over the years, Longines Admiral 14k, Elgin 14k, Linn Speakers, ADS speakers, numerous receivers, amps, Atmos clock, computers etc etc. Love that place.
 
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I have an absolutely fantastic thrift store near my house. Over the years, Longines Admiral 14k, Elgin 14k, Linn Speakers, ADS speakers, numerous receivers, amps, Atmos clock, computers etc etc. Love that place.
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Vercingetorix Vercingetorix
I have an absolutely fantastic thrift store near my house. Over the years, Longines Admiral 14k, Elgin 14k, Linn Speakers, ADS speakers, numerous receivers, amps, Atmos clock, computers etc etc. Love that place.

Used to work at ADS during college. I worked the tower speaker line. 1090s, 1290, 1590s. Top line stuff that was $5k 40yrs ago. I have ADS bookshelf speakers and sub in my office playing right now with a Macintosh receiver. Rec room has 1290s,1090s, dual sub, and 300s as surround. My gym has 990s. My living room has Bose satellites with a big ADS 400 15" sub. My best friend at the time stayed on there when I went back to college, and later became VP of Engineering. Cutting edge tech back then. Their anechoic chamber was unbelievable. it would freak you out how dead the room was. No sound reflection screws with your senses. You actually get a little dizzy.
 
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