Thursday, October 8, 2009

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.


Wednesday, October 7, 2009

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.


Tuesday, October 6, 2009

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!

Monday, October 5, 2009

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.