Tuesday Treasures - April 15, 2025

 A friend and I went to the Goodwill Bins a few weeks ago, and spent ages rummaging around for treasures!  That's the way to find the good stuff.  And good stuff I did find!  

I was heavy on the breakable finds, 10¢lb. 

There was a plastic bag for four sets of salt and pepper shakers.  Two are breakable (so in the breakables bin), the pinecones are chalkware with huge cork stoppers.  The colorful geometric are red clay, Jemez Pueblo.  I don't think the paint is sealed, so I haven't cleaned them up.  

The cutest souvenir set I think I've seen!  The tops screw off for the salt and pepper.

There is also a side for the Empire State Building.

My friend found this vintage ceramic Japanese made French Bulldog in the regular salvage bins.  I say "French Bulldog" because that's how it's categorized on this site, a very extensive list with photos of ceramic dog breeds.  It would be a good thing for the breed to have noses this long again.

A marked Wedgwood 4 1/2" Jasperware plate.  It's Aurora and the Chariot of Dawn from the 1970s.

This small wood carved Indonesian Wayang Golek puppet wasn't in the breakables, so was $1.89lb.  We have two larger ones, a man and a woman, already.  The little Japanese cat with a ball of yarn, and the porcelain ring box with a "gem" stone were in the breakables.  I've not been able to identify the ring box.  It's only mark is "NOV" on the bottom for November, as the "gem" is topaz or citrine.    

There's even more breakables!

A stone egg.

A vintage bonsai planter embossed

Japan" and a 14" plater made by Buffalo China restaurant ware. I didn't have a heavy duty platter, and this is super heavy duty.  I now see they have resale value, and they had a pile of them!  Oh, well, I don't like shipping things that break. 

Lovely, uncracked, unchipped, pair of ivory candlestick holders, in the shape of cornucopias, made in Japan.  Have you noticed cornucopias are often referred to as "seashells" now?  Perhaps the younger people aren't familiar with the Horn of Plenty. 

I may have saved the best breakable for last!  

A bookend.  A clay bookend of what I thought was a boy looking at, or picking, his foot!  Then I decided he was missing a book he originally held.  Nope.  Get home, my son mentions the boy is naked, so I Google Lens it, and find that he is a naked boy, and he is a version of Spinario, or Boy with Thorn!  So, he IS picking his foot, to get out a thorn!  I don't mind only having one bookend.  My books aren't in the middle of a shelf needing support at both ends, they nestle up against the end of the bookcases or bookshelves, so I only need one anyway.   I almost left him, but he was so unusual I change my mind.  Even if he'd been resin he would be unique.  But, there is a chip in the corner of the base, so I could tell he was pottery.  Heavy too, so a deal for 10¢lb!

Done with the breakables.  Guess how much ALL of the above was (less the little wooden Indonesian puppet)?

 Did you guess under $1.00?  I had just over 7lbs., so all for 71¢!  

I also got Mickey a toy, my son a drafting compass, 3 books, a pair of new Puma sport socks, a vintage plush for my son to sell, a new package of Halloween treat bags, a wooden pant hanger (I always pick those up), clothes for myself (they all fit this trip!), and this cute little lipstick purse my friend found. I don't wear lipstick, but know someone who does.

Whew... that was an amazing Goodwill Bins trip!