Any luck at antique shops/flea markets anyone??

Columbus Market NJ Mid 1990's $5.00 per coin

[Michael B]

If you don't expect to find a treasure each time you enter an antique shop you will usually do okay. I find that antique co-ops are usually the best place to find items. Yes, the dealers with space will usually get first crack as the other dealers will approach them with new items. However, if you are persistent you will find great items every now and then. Along the way you will have fun exploring. Some good places to search out are Route 30 between Gettyburg, PA and Chambersburg, PA. I recall there being one area that had 5 or 6 co-ops. Route 95 and Route 85 in North Carolina, lots of large antique co-ops just of the highways and large billboards advertising them.

My best flea market/antique shop finds:

Late 1920's NFL program, possibly Frankford vs Pittsburgh. Found in a drawer among other papers. Sturbridge, MA antique co-op - $5.

John J. Evers signed 1939 Baseball first day cover - $10 Brimfield Flea Market

Lot of items from a track athlete who attended the University of Kansas in the 1920's. Photos of him in WWI and later and two letterman certificates and a letter all originally signed by Forrest "Phog' Allen, baskeball hall of famer - $100 or less DC Big Flea Chantilly, VA.

My Civil War autograph finds have been much greater, but that is not for this forum.

[slidekellyslide]

Persistence pays off...I hit the antique stores in my area weekly, but rarely find anything, but I make at least one big score per year. It also helps to have your brother looking for you as well, he found this for me a year or so back.




Les Nunamaker on there!

[bwbc917]

Beautiful Reach baseball. Nunamaker and Cecil Eash played on the 1930 Lincoln, Neb. team. That would certainly help date the ball.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by bwbc917

Beautiful Reach baseball. Nunamaker and Cecil Eash played on the 1930 Lincoln, Neb. team. That would certainly help date the ball.

Yep, it's the 1930 Lincoln team...a centerpiece of my collection.

[brianp-beme]

I've mentioned it a couple times before on this board but I think it is worth a repeat. My only antique store find was back in the late 1990's in Northern California. A co-op type antique store had plastic sheets of what was described as 'black and white' cards in a display case. I checked them out, and decided to make an offer on them. The person at the front counter called the owner, and I was able to get the price down from $3.00 a card to $2.00 a card.

They were mid-1920 Zeenut cards, about 100, and overall in above normal Zeenut condition, with the position of the player written on their backs. It kickstarted me into collecting Zeenuts, starting with the 1925 year, and I haven't looked back (or given up) since.

Brian