sparkling husband dude identifies a potato digger

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=403x4075

Oh my.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)       Sun Oct-23-11 01:45 AM
Original message
 
Now here's a SALE!
 
From craigslist

An honest-to-goodness real Estate Sale!

This Sunday October 23; 9-3pm or until we get sick of it.

Everything that we don't have a bid on is HALF PRICE!

Much of this stuff has not seen the light of day in several decades.

You might want to bring a friend because we're selling out of the garage and the house at the same time, and you can't be both places at once.

All manner of antiques and assorted rusty/dirty stuff, as well as pretty shiny stuff.

John Deere disc/plow. Spring tooth harrow, 8" PTO auger.

Old logging saws, hammers, picks, chisels, wrenches, carpenter saws.
Woodworking tools, mechanics tools, tractor tools.
John Deere, IHC, Ford, Plomb, Stanley, Millers Falls, Kelly Axe, Chemical Axe, etc.
A whole box full of nothing but Ford wrenches.
All sorts of "yard art" in the form of old farm machinery, plows. A tator differ.
Gigantic tree auger that will dig a 2-foot wide hole. It would a great mailbox holder.
Sears siphon feed Sandblaster, with media.
Edwards #2 Iron Worker (shear & punch).
Consetoga wagon bells (hame bells or buggy bells?).
Kerosene lamps and barn lanterns.
A small collection of old (carved) walking sticks.
Large Stanley grinder (makes my little Ryobi look sad in comparison).
Blacksmith's cast iron floor cone/mandrel (comes apart in 3 pieces).
Old brass Victorian lighting fixtures.
Small ornate floor safe from the Aurora Colony, made by the Hall Safe Company.
This one was made for Fred Will. He owned interests in the hotel and the Aurora general store.
A collection of odd jacks: Tractor jacks, Model T jacks, wagon jacks & house jacks.
Francoma pottery, white ironstone.
Grocers' meat scales.
House parts and other "salvage". Lots of doors and windows.
Lots of framed pictures. And even more frames without pictures.
Aunt Lois was a crafter and a painter, so there a bunch of that stuff.
More tea cups than any one person should own.
Several old schoolhouse doors that might be good for something.
4 slabs of soapstone that you might repurpose for something else. 24" x 24" x 1.5"
Several manganese and salt glazed crocks & stoneware. Likely also from the Aurora Colony.
Flower frogs, garden statuary.
Nice quartersawn oak furniture - 2 round oak tables, one square table, several sets of chairs, etc.
Lois used to host the garden club and other funtions, hence so many tables & chairs.
Some cool old beds and bedroom furniture. An especially nice waterfall set from the 1950s.
Old TV.
Old cast iron enameled Charter Oak cookstove in the basement. Pretty green colored. Sunday price: $225!
Bring help to load it, it's heavy.
A room full of dolls and Teddy bears,
Tables of dug bottles, milk bottles, ink bottles, whiskey bottles.
A huge porcelain powerline insulator big enough to wash a hampster in.
Household items, pots & pans, linens, (remember, this is an estate sale) .
The closets are full of woman's clothes. The bedrooms are full of blankets and bedding.
Vintage Christmas decorations. It just isn't a proper sale without a table of old Xmas stuff.
There is a wooden combine hanging in one of the barns.

Full disclosure: If you come to this sale expecting to find broken toys, baby clothes, old computers, or Ikea furniture, you will leave empty-handed.

https://picasaweb.google.com/113752589269372352186/Aunt...

Vinca  (1000+ posts)       Sun Oct-23-11 07:18 AM
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1. OMG - is it something you can go to?

A ROOM full of dolls and teddy bears? I wonder what a "tator differ" is under lawn art.

Yeah.

The anti-Christianity vindictive primitive, a notorious re-seller in New England, would like to go to it--it's in Oregon--hoping to get Nieman-Marcus goods at Dollar General prices.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)       Sun Oct-23-11 12:43 PM
Response to Reply #1
 
3. it's too far for me today

but it sure sounds F U N!

And I have no idea what a tator differ is.

Yeah, it is a little far for a little old lady wearing six coats and dragging a little red wagon behind her.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)         Sun Oct-23-11 09:53 PM
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4. A typo for "potato digger" is my guess.

after which a photograph of an antique piece of farm machinery

[Chris_]

A two-foot-square slab of soapstone.  Oh boy, sign me up.

[franksolich]

A two-foot-square slab of soapstone.  Oh boy, sign me up.

Trust me, if the vindictive primitive got a hold of that, she'd try to sell it off as the Elgin Marbles.

[zeitgeist]

Trust me, if the vindictive primitive got a hold of that, she'd try to sell it off as the Elgin Marbles.

And [more's the pitty] thanks to our public education system today few would know the difference. 

Sounds like an interesting hoard, kind of like my grandfather's farm inventory (which got sold in the sixties).

[GOBUCKS]

Yeah, it is a little far for a little old lady wearing six coats and dragging a little red wagon behind her.

But can't you just see her slowly trundling along the sidewalk, muttering to herself, with her little red wagon sagging under the weight of a huge two-foot tree auger?

[Ballygrl]

frank, why does he have f-it on his avatar at DU?

[franksolich]

frank, why does he have f-it on his avatar at DU?

Ah, but that's a question better directed at the sparkling husband dude, madam.

Notice mine, when I use it, doesn't have an obscenity on it.

The sparkling husband dude was lurking here yesterday (Saturday); maybe he'll lurk again today and answer from across the Great Divide, that vast ocean, that separates Skins's island from the bigger real world.

[ExGeeEye]

A two-foot-square slab of soapstone.  Oh boy, sign me up.

Intended to be heated in front of the fire, then put on the floor of the buggy or sleigh to warm the feet of the travelling lady(ies).

No, I'm not that old--

--but I saw one at my gt-grandparents' when I was 8, and asked about it.

Common item, back then, now abandoned in gardens and basements if kept at all...