Vintage Fleas

Labor Day weekend some dear friends of ours invited us to a large flea market with them about an hour and a half north of NYC. Getting up so early on a Sunday morning was slightly painful but the drive was beautiful, the company superb, and the treasures many! Devin and I headed home with a carful!

Here is a list of our new antiques:

·         A chair from the 1920s

·         Vintage cut glass and silver pitcher

·         A telegram from the 30s

·         A pair of old spectacles

·         Dr Livingston’s – Explorations and Adventures in the Wilds of Africa

·         French Novel – 1869

·         The Complete School Algebra – 1894

·         A Bible from 1854

·         One of the first designs of combination locks

·         An old safety pin

·         Three booklets of ration stamps from the World Wars

·         An antique fire iron

·         A Newspaper – The New York Tribune from 1882

·         A page from a botanical book (Already framed for another project!) – 1880

·         A book of needles

·         Old postcards

·         A lantern

·         A 5-gallon water jug in crate – complete with 5 dead mice inside!!!!

I was so excited and have enjoyed finding places for our newfound treasures in our home. The mice were much less welcome and I have yet to take the bottle out with a hose and some bleach…sigh. Here are some close-up pictures of what we found.

The name flea mart has always given me the willies, so I opted to name it the vintage tag sale. While chattering to my mom the day before, she mixed the two and told me to enjoy the "vintage fleas!" After all of the amazing finds I am hooked…YAY for vintage fleas!!!