Thrift Shopping & Antiquing V2: the kirederf museum of unnatural deals
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What happened?
That's a vague question. Mr. NotHaus basically used all of his silver as fractional reserves so that he can issue his own hard currency. Private currency was made illegal sometime during the great depression, I think. During the great depression they seized all of the bank's fractional reserves and gave them federal reserve notes in return.
They arrested Mr. NotHaus for counterfeiting, argued that the coins kind of look like commemoratives. Argued that NotHaus was a 'domestic terrorist' trying to bring down the american economy. If there is a second great recession, the government kind of has exhausted all of its monetary tools and the dollar would probably collapse under those bonds being issued and the weight of the national deficit. Buying silver is betting against the US dollar in a way, and betting against the American economy has a cushioning effect on recessions. I'm not an economist.
I buy an ounce of silver a week and went to my usual guy, he let me look through his tubes, and I picked this out. Got home, googled details about the coin, and was pleasantly surprised. The little B in a circle in a triangle is Bernard von NotHaus' hallmark. The guy didn't make that many art coins outside of the liberty dollar, thus I personally value this coin to be at 100 bucks. The guy is a part of monetary history for trying to make his own voluntary currency. It's going to be worth as much as one of Daniel Carr's coins when Mr. NotHaus dies.
I emailed a guy who brokers liberty dollars and he said the mintage was 5,000. He said it isn't a legit NORFED liberty dollar that could've been redeemed at the liberty dollar fulfillment center for federal reserve notes, but it was a creation of Mr. NotHaus nonetheless. One sold on ebay for 100, another sold for 125.
So yeah I pretty much found the holy grail of silver coins that you would be able to find at the flea market. The next week I went to my usual silver guy for an higher-premium ounce of silver (thats what makes the coins 18 bucks instead of silver spot price, the premium on his collectibles) I told him he should pay better attention to the mint marks. He laughed.
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I bought a Crosman 760-D at the neighborhood yard sale. Can't exactly start firing off pellets in my suburb so I can't test the accuracy but the cocking/loading mechanism works and the pump works.
They made them from '75 to' 01 and then stopped making them like this. The new 760's look much more modern. I looked at the hardware inside the trigger mechanism and it looks really cheaply made.
Cost me 15 bucks.
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I'm going to use it to eat raw squirrels and bunnies and other vermin, going to be doing some real primal shit with this thing.
I got lucky and found a parking lot with fuckin' 4 antique/thrift stores and a discount furniture store. All together. And another thrift store a little further off I haven't been to.
I'd post pictures, but all I've picked up has been really generic stuff, boring. (Dresser, paintings, etc.)
You lads can see, however, the incredible $1 cat summoner 9000.
https://i.imgur.com/1TY3IpL.jpg
@Zorlok
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/429672481054261259/435246881333968897/image.jpg
Here's my little Sterling. A bit grimy but she gets the job done. Purrs like a sewing machine. I don't mind the flaking paint here and there so much.
Hey guys it's been a while since I've posted. I've just been very busy with work and my shop. Just wanted to show this though. I picked up this, what appears to be, turn of the century large industrial pedestal grinder/buffer off Facebook marketplace yesterday. At some point someone converted it to electric by adding a crude mount for a 2HP G.E. Motor (absolutely massive) and V-belts (incorrectly mounted on a flat belt pulley) but it is in actually a very nice condition. There is nearly zero rust, it has obviously been used extensively and the wheels on it are massive. The grinding wheel is a 14", while the wire wheel that is on it is 12". I plan on restoring it. Making a riser block so it sits at a much more comfortable height for me (6'3"), sandblasting and repainting everything, making a new motor mount for it with more support, a nice emergency stop paddle switch. Possibly convert it back to belt drive and get a new pulley for the motor and possibly fabricate a mobile triangular base for it. It weighs I would assume 350 pounds. The motor alone weighs nearly 100.
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Welcome back Ajacks. That is an enormous machine. I didn't parse the scale until I saw it was sitting on a furniture dolly. Christ. What'd you pay for that monster?
Yeah it's absolutely a beast in scale. I paid $100. I removed the old broken switch and enclosure and wired in a new emergency stop paddle switch and enclosure as well as a new 240 20amp plug end to test the motor. With the pulleys disconnected the motor fired right up and purred without a hiccup. Totally smooth with no bearing noise what so ever. I was pretty happy about that.
Those old motors are pretty robust, it's amazing how long they'll go without proper maintenance. Then if they're regularly maintained they essentially just run forever unless something damages the stator windings. I have a few old fans from the 1930s that still run like new, original sleeve bearings and everything.
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New Beretta knife and a dairy sign from the 50s all for 30 dollars
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Neat! Got any more pictures of that knife? Suspicous it could be a knock off becasue of the logo.
Judging by the fact it says made in Japan and theres no actual Beretta logo on there, I'd say it's probably a knock of, still, can't go wrong a nice blade!
Scored all this for just £30! Very happy.
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Can't go wrong with a Praktica! Very nice with the Helios and CZ Tessar!
So a couple months ago I found some weird, heavy cast iron door plates that I was going to use on my antique mahogany door.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/329279019075764227/442769620055621632/image.jpg
Long story short, they aren't door plates. I found out today they're actually Art Nouveau wall sconces.
https://i.imgur.com/odEkW3n.jpg
I really want to make wall sconces out of them now, but obviously finding the original parts is not realistic. I dunno what to do.
I'd go with the original plan and use them as door plates. They don't look that great as sconses imo. They'd look great on a door though.
Which museum? I think you should!
You should definitely loan it to them. I don't know about giving or selling it.
I'm going to meet them soon, they seem to have a fund to acquire stuff like this. I probably won't sell it though.
They actually know who made this! Also only two of these were made in August 1944, they never thought they would find one. So yeah it's RARE! The other one is still missing.
Quite incredible. This is their website; http://www.hbfv.be/ everything is written in Dutch though.
I would love to have some of my finds displayed in a museum, but I just wouldn't want to give anything up permanently unless I was sure it would be set out for people to enjoy and not kept in storage. If it's on loan you have full control of it and you know they'll have it out on display, so that's the way I would handle it... plus if the museum ever goes under you get it back rather than having it vanish in some auction.
Best of luck. It sounds like they'll be a good home for it whatever route you take.
Not exactly thrift BUT
I nabbed this from craigslist for 95 bucks
https://i.redd.it/tek9u5vjdgw01.jpg
it came with free spiders and old house smell
It's a dynamo hs-1 that was converted into a neo geo, It wasn't working but i got it up and running. The neo-geo is dead though so i have to fix that. It has a tekken 2 board in it now just for testing.
I'm in the process of restoring it!
Awesome! How's the monitor? Any burn-in?
I can very vaguely see the neo geo logo when its off.
other than that its in good shape, the monitor is at least.
Went back to Goodwill awhile back and found these three:
https://i.imgur.com/B5ZqxbA.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/0fRX50t.jpg
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I gave the third one to my dad.
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also i think the postal office lost my zippos in the mail wroth around 130 dollers
i want to fucking die
I was walking around Hollywood boulevard and ealked into a random book store that specializes in scripts and movie posters. Ended up asking for the Isle Of Dogs poster in the window and got it for 25 bucks. Pretty standard price, but i really wanted it. He also had an original iron giant poster that I really wanted, but i didnt ask how much. Probably too much for me.
Well... It seems like I'll be collecting vintage watches from now on This is a 50's Dreffa Chronograph I found on my local Craigslist type site. Works perfectly!
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