The Finest Muffins & Bagels in All the Land

My daughter is an illustrator and she's recently set up shop at Cafepress for folks to get some of her beautiful illustrations on shirts, aprons, cards, magnets, etc. Check it out at:

http://www.cafepress.com/elizabethmetz

Hey, Cleveland Browns & Cleveland Indians Fans

I thought I'd blog about three nice finds I have for Cleveland sports fans.

Last week I picked up a very nice signed, framed photo of Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Lemon.

I also have a 1947 book written by Cleveland's other Hall of Fame pitcher, Bob Feller: Bob Feller's Strikeout Story.

And finally, for the Cleveland Browns fans, I have a book about the NFL Football Hall of Fame, "NFL Hall of Fame, Their Deeds & Dogged Faith." Of special interest to Cleveland fans is that among the list of Hall of Famers are three autographs of Cleveland Browns players, Lou Groza, Paul Warfield and Dante "Gluefingers" Lavelli.

Check these great items out and snag some history! And remember, if the same person buys more than one item, I'll combine shipping.

Nice Snakeskin Shoes - Giorgio Brutini

More clearance items, a nice pair of Size 13M Giorgio Brutini snakeskin shoes. Nice cream color with a pinkish hue, although the photo makes them look whiter than they actually are.

Elvis Presley Tin Sign

I'm working on clearing out some of the items we've had around for a while. This is an item we put up on eBay back when we were still selling there and I just haven't put it up in the current store. Now it's up for sale, a great deal of this sign with a drawing of the early Elvis by Dennis Jackson. Check out the listing now to add to your Elvis collection.

More Cookbooks! Yum!!!

As I said yesterday, we went to some church rummage sales and I picked up a number of Vintage Cookbooks. I now have them up in my store in the Cookbook section here. Those newly listed cookbooks date from 1936 up to 1970 and there's some delicious recipes in each of them.

My favorite is the 1955 cookbook titled Who Says We Can't Cook! issued by the Women's National Press Club with recipes from various members of the press. There's a whole section that has recipes from some of the top names in Washington: a Beef Stew Recipe for 60 from President Eisenhower as well as recipes from 1st Lady Mamie Eisenhower, former 1st Ladies Eleanor Roosevelt, Grace Coolidge and Bess Truman and then future 1st Lady Pat Nixon. Recipes from Sam Rayburn and LBJ and Washington's "most eligible bacholor" J. Edgar Hoover.

Also interesting is a 1948 cookbook titled What's Cookin' from the Ladies Auxiliary for J.C. Blair Memorial Hospital in Huningdon, Pennsylvania. Interesting recipe? Wine Jelly!

Are you into hunting and cooking your game? Here's the 1970 cookbook How To Cook His Goose (& Other Wild Game). Lots of great tips and recipes in this one.

And another favorite: What You Can Do with Jell-o, a 1936 booklet. Other cookbooks now in stock are about Chinese Cooking, cooking Leftovers, other International Cooking by the woman who ran Menus By Mail and a 1948 volume on cooking things right.

Again, be sure to check out all of our cookbooks at TSC-Sales.com.

Bon Appetit!

U.S. Playing Card Bicycle Cards with Tax Stamps

I bought a boxed playing card set this weekend, a Bicycle Play Cards Canasta box. Bicycle is a brand of the U.S. Playing Card Co. here in the Cincinnati area. I saw the cards were still in their cellophane wrappers. When I got home and examined them closer, I saw they still had the IRS tax stamps still on the cards. They read "Play Cardds" at the top, "1 Pack" in the center and "U.S. Int. Rev." below. Likewise, each pack has a round purple U.S. Playing Card sticker showing their famed Spade symbol with the woman in the middle (Lady Liberty?). As I said earlier, both packs are still covered in cellophane, although one has a loose end. The box itself is in worn condition, a blue top showing the King riding a bike, the bottom is gold and has two of the cards glued to it. The cards are from around 1950 since the rules booklet states it is "incorporating the latest changes made for 1950."

So my question is, do I have a nice find here? Is there more worth to these with the tax stamps on them. I assume since the cards are still sealed, that's better than not.

Now on Twitter - TSCinti

I'm now highlighting items from my store on Twitter under the ID TSCSales. It's increasing hits, but hasn't translated to sales yet, but we'll see if this medium can increase sales. In the meantime, check out my stores at tsc-sales.com and silverscreenbooks.com.

[update 9/23/09: Changed sales ID to TSCSales - set it up to follow our stores on Twitter to see highlights of our items]

Ashtrays

I was looking through some items here on the shelves and found a couple of items that I'd bought but never listed (even though I had the pictures taken already). They were a couple of ashtrays and since I already had a few listed, I added a category in my store just for ashtrays.

The two items I hadn't listed were

A pale blue Jasper Wedgewood ashtray; very fancy looking and a commemorative ashtray from the 1949 Zoological Convention in Detroit. The ashtray is a metal casting featuring the Detroit Zoo logo back then that has a Wolverine on it.

The others that we have are a Nebraska Cornhuskers ashtray, an old Sheraton Hotel ashtray and finally one for Sanka Coffee (for your morning smoke).

I will combine shipping if you buy multiple ashtrays.

Cookbooks - Yum!

My wife, daughter and I hit some church rummage sales last weekend and I picked up about a dozen books. One of particular interest is a 1st printing of The Betty Furness Westinghouse Cook Book; printed in 1954 (the year I was born!). I've added to the Cookbook section of my TSC Sales store. It's not a huge collection, but there are a number of vintage editions.

Besides the Furness cookbook, I have

• 1953 El Molino Best Cookbook including allergy recipes!


• Vintage Cocktails, Authentic Recipes from 1920 to 1960 - 96 pages of great drinks!


• Aunt Sammy's Radio Recipes Revised - signed by the late Congressman John Jennings Jr. of Tennessee.


• Good Housekeeping's Cake Book - 1958 edition, they made cakes great back then!


• Favorite Recipes of America - a five volume boxed set, 1966 edition.

Lots of great food to be made from the vintage books.

Getting the Auction Bug Again

It's been nearly a year since I've listed anything on eBay following the change in their rules for Sellers. I've continued to list items in my two eCrater stores (TSCSales and Silverscreenbooks.com), plus on Amazon. Sales have been up and down over the last year.

I've been hankering for some Auction sales and decided to make my way back to Overstock.com. I've now listed a couple of items there: a nice collection of James Bond paperback books, vintage from the 1960's and a book about the Football Hall of Fame signed by three Cleveland Browns Hall of Famers (Lou Groza, "Gluefingers" Lavelli and Paul Warfield).

Check out these great items!