I made another trip to visit Scott and Anna from Midcentury Misfits. I was able to get these two awesome hardware store displays from them (along with a few other items). The displays cleaned up really well and are going to make an awesome addition to my garage! The Jorgensen Clamps display has NOS tools still on it! The Vise Grips display is cool and I have just about all the vintage models listed on the board.
I headed out to rural area near Harvard IL for my most recent pick. I met a real nice guy named Tom that had a barn packed full of old oil cans and other cool stuff. He works for a large farming outfit and often has to clean out old barns. He comes across quite a few interesting finds and has squirreled away a massive collection in his barn.
I managed to buy quite a few cans from him but I barely made a dent in what he has in his barn. I picked up a couple nice five gallon cans with great graphics. Not to mention a very cool 1930's Harley Davidson oil can that I had to twist his arm for! It took me good hour of scrubbing these cans with hot water and vinegar to get all the grime off of them. The brutal winter weather in Chicago continues and I have not been to a flea market since last fall. I was itching to get out and hunt for some "junk" so I headed out to Wolff's Indoor Flea Market in Palatine IL. They also run the largest outdoor Flea Market in the Chicago area during the summer months. That market operates out of the Allstate Arena parking lot and you can see the vendors fill the parking lot from I90 each Sunday over the summer. Their indoor market is inside of what appears to be an old grocery or big box store. It is filled with a wide variety of vendors but overall it was not really the type of stuff I was looking for. It could have been that I got there a little later in the morning and it was picked over pretty good. I did end up finding a booth that had a couple pickers with a great eye. Scott and Anna from Midcentury Misfits had a booth packed with great items. Virtually everything in their booth was stuff I would collect or pick myself. I ended buying some mid-century Dazor lights from them as well as a vintage Thermometer and some oil cans. |
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