World's Longest Yard Sale 2011 items up for sale now

Last Saturday, my wife & I made our annual trek to the World's Longest Yard Sale which traverses US Highway 127 from Michigan down into Georgia or Alabama (can't remember which).  We usually start over in northern Kentucky at Mainstrasses in Covington and then head south.  We generally only go about 40 to 50 miles and then call it a day, looking for things for us, the kids or for me to resell.

 Without further ado, here's what I've found and have listed in my store.

Cookbooks

I found a number of interesting cookbooks this year, all vintage, anywhere from 1943 up to the early 60's.


Searchlight Recipe Book from Household Magazine, 1943
Pillsbury Baking 100 Prize Winning Recipes, 1950 (2nd Grand National)
Pillsbury Baking 100 Grand National Recipes , 1955 (6th Grand National)
Family Fare, Food Management & Recipes, 1960 USDA publication
Vernor's Recipes, circa 1960 pamphlet for Ginger Ale recipes

Fun & Games

I picked up a few nice game items too.

Amtrak Playing Cards, 2 packs, never used (one pack is still sealed, the other's packaging came undone after I bought them.
Charles Goren AutoBridge Play Yourself Bridge game, 1950
Hondy II, The Red Book of Social Recreation, 4th Edition, 1932 with various games & puzzles for parties, the high time of the 1930's.

Beer Mugs & Steins

I found a nice beer mug at one place and have just posted a couple of German ones last week.

Oldenberg Brewery beer mug, Ft. Mitchell, KY 1993 Commemorative Edition
Dinkelacker Biere Aus Stuttgart beer stein, pre-unification, West Germany, 1.5 l
Henninger Brau Frankfurt-Main beer stein, pre-unification, West Germany, 1.5 l
Zinzinnati Oktoberfest 1994 mug, Cincinnati's annual fest.


Finally, I picked up another song sheet, this one from 1950 of the classic Christmas tune, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" written by Jimmy Boyd, sung by Tommie Connor.  Suitable for framing & would make a great Christmas decoration, I think.

Again, check out both of my stores for some great finds.

http://tsc-sales.com/
http://silverscreenbooks.com/

Parabola: Magazine of Myth & Tradition - Complete Set (1976-2009)

A friend is divesting of some of her things and has asked me to list her complete set of the quarterly magazine Parabola, the Magazine of Myth & Tradition - every issue from 1976 through 2009, 136 issues in all over the 34 years.  Here's a great chance to own the entire collection of this highly regarded magazine.

Check it out in our store!

Cincinnati Reds, National League Central Division 2010 Champions!

The Cincinnati Reds clinched their first division championship last night with an exciting game ending home run from Jay Bruce.  For those wanting to celebrate all things Reds, I have a number of items in my store, in the Baseball Emporium.

First off, we have six packs of this year's 2010 Cincinnati Reds baseball cards, handed out at a game earlier this season.  They are new and unopened.

Harking back to earlier days, I have a couple of Ken Griffey items, the 8 X 10 photo the Reds gave out commemorating Griffey's 600th home run (3 of those left), as well as the smaller 5 X 7 photo showing Griffey hitting the 600th home run on June 9, 2008. in Miami (4 of those).

In honor of the late Joe Nuxhall, the beloved Reds broadcaster, I have two different items.  The first is the replica statue of the one outside Great American Ball Park given out at a Reds game a few years ago.  The other is two Reds magnets; one with the classic Mr. Redlegs over their Wishbone C and the other, a circular Nuxy magnet.

Finally, while he's also no longer with the club, I have an Austin Kearns bobblehead, as well as a Tom Browning "Mr. Perfect" bobblehead.  Likewise I have three 8 X 10 matted photos of Reds pitcher Bronson Arroyo.

More Elvis! Official Elvis Presley Ornament Collection 1992

Last year I wrote a blog about an Elvis Presley sign I have for sale.  Nice item and it's still available, but today driving back to my office, I noticed an estate sale here in the neighborhood.  I stopped just to see what they had.  I found a nice boxed set of Elvis Presley ornaments.  The box states "The Official Elvis Presley 1992 Christmas Ornament Collection" and shows "E.P.E. c. 1992".  Inside are three of the thin brass (bronze?) style oraments of "The King".

I haven't listed the set yet as I want to do some research on them first.  Usually I'll do some searches on various sites and you find a number of the same thing and then I can set a price.  Surprisingly, I'm not finding this set listed anywhere.  The only one that comes up for 1992 Elvis ornaments is the Hallmark one and they seem to be a dime a dozen.  I'll update this post when I list them for sale.  In the meantime, if anyone has any interest, let me know.

World's Longest Yard Sale finds, Daniel Llords caricature

I picked up an interesting item today at the World's Longest Yard Sale.  It's a caricature of the late Daniel Llords, a renowned puppeteer who died in Hillsboro, Ohio last year.  The caricature was done in 1948 and is signed by "Pamela" (with the quotes) and I can't decipher the last name.  It's a wonderful piece.  If anyone knows who the caricaturist is, let me know.

Here's some pictures of the piece and a close up of the signature and the comments written in the drawing.  Likewise, what I bought included a photo, allegedly of Mr. Llords.

TSC Sales Now on Etsy.com

My sister-in-law recently told me that she is selling some of her vintage items on Etsy. I decided to check it out and will be adding items over the next few weeks. You can check it out at
http://www.etsy.com/shop/tscsales.

You Can Buy From Me!

The company I purchase my domain names through is celebrating their 10th anniversary. As a bonus to their users they were making available free domain names to the first customers who got a code for them. I was able to secure one yesterday and decided to get a name that worked with the extension from Montenegro, .me. So for now, the domain http://youcanbuyfrom.me is mine and I have it pointing to my TSC Sales store, but may set up a web site with my other site too (http://silverscreenbooks.com/).

We'll see if that helps drive some sales, which have been anemic to say the least. So remember, youcanbuyfrom.me!

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!

Christmas is coming, baseball fans!

With the annual Winter Meetings closing yesterday, baseball is on the minds of fans during the cold winter months. With Christmas just around the corner, fans can peruse our Baseball Emporium to find great books, along with various Cincinnati Reds items. I still have some Ken Griffey Jr. items in the store, some commemorating his 600th home run last season. I also still have a couple of the Joe Nuxhall replica bronze statuettes.

As always, we ship quickly. Remember on the books, the shipping costs reflects U.S. Media Mail, so if you need 1st class or Priority Mail, contact me directly.

Chagall's Fiddler Screenprint Reproduction

I haven't put this up for sale, but I thought I'd solicit some help from our readers. I picked up a screenprint of Marc Chagall's Fiddler this weekend at The World's Longest Yard Sale. I've tried researching who may have produce a screenprint version of the famed painting, but haven't foudn anything. There are no identifying markings on the front or back of the piece.

Any clues?

Ken Griffey Jr. Moves on - now with the White Sox

It wasn't unexpected, but the anticipated move of Ken Griffey Jr. from the Cincinnati Reds to the Chicago White Sox took place on the last day of July. For Reds fans, it was a thrill to have one of the greatest baseball players of all time on our team, even if it never turned out as expected. Griffey did hit more than 200 home runs with his hometown team. Included were home runs #400, #500 and #600 just this season.

We have quite a number of Griffey items in our store:

• KEN GRIFFEY JR 600 HOME RUN PHOTO CINCINNATI REDS W/TICKET



• KEN GRIFFEY JR 600 HOME RUN PHOTO CINCINNATI REDS



• KEN GRIFFEY JR 600 HOME RUN CARD CINCINNATI REDS



• Ken Griffey Jr. Cleo Valentines - 32 count box



• Junior: Griffey on Griffey 1st Edition