Covered bridge in West Dover Vermont
Saturday morning we headed out for tag sales. This is one of 3 big weekends in the season. We hadn’t selected a lot of sales, we had 9 planned ones. I check the Franklin County paper because it has the BEST listings. Once I’ve selected the promising ones, I make a route, usually a big circle. We also stop for any that look promising on the route.
Our first stop was an estate sale in Deerfield. My husband found this building jack for $5. We also saw a shovel like this. Of course, I didn’t have my camera. It’s an old coal shovel. We were both taken with how unique it was, but as my husband says, we don’t need more decoration…
I found more garden fencing, 2 big rolls for $5 and some odds and ends. We didn’t find a lot of great stuff at the rest of them, just odds and ends and had finished by 10AM. Most of the sales we wanted to go to had started on Friday, and my husband was out fishing. (He got 7 haddock and yes, it was VERY rough.)
On Sunday we decided to go to the Newfane, VT flea market. We’d not been in 15 – 20 years. My husband checked online and one place said it was open still, had been for 50 years. So we headed out.
On the way we stopped at a tag sale in town and she had a perfect cast iron folding screen. We were going to need something like that for the new bedroom, but my husband didn’t want to spend $15 for it as it needed little repairs. So he decided to see if it was still there when we came home.
But alas, while a big OPEN flag was hanging at the entrance, the Newfane Flea Market was not open and was for sale. So we headed over to the one on Rt. 30 in Vermont. That had been a much smaller one way back. We went the back way and through the covered bridge.
And it was open, and much larger than when we’d last been there. Lots of antique dealers still, but a lot of flea market people too. Some must have moved from Newfane. We didn’t find much, just a few household items.
Wilmington, Vermont
I had made a post a couple weeks ago about how the trees appeared really red, almost like autumn, this spring. But I never got a photo. But we saw the same thing in Vermont this weekend and I did get some.
Wilmington, Vermont
We decided to go to the Flea Market and Engine Show in Bernardston, Mass. We got there at noon and people were already closing down their tables. I found odds and ends but my husband was looking at the tools. He’s in search of a rugged vise for his tool bench. One dealer had one marked $75. We got him down to $65 but my husband decided no. So we left it.
On the way out he commented it was a good price for it. I said well why didn’t you get it?!? Cardinal rule at tag sales, buy it NOW if you want it! I can see it’s going to take a while to work into our old tag sale methods….
I did get this heavy duty stair basket for $2. I use the lighter duty one all the time. Now I will have one for the cellar stairs.
As we headed for home, we came to a tag sale and they had a large bowl I could use for my bird bath. I’ve needed one for years and got this for $5.
When we came through our town, we stopped at the tag sale, but she’d sold the cast iron screen. Oh, well….
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Shovel: https://www.michigan-sportsman.com/forum/threads/antique-shovel-id.553416/
