Post your Garage Sale/Flea Market/Antique Mall Finds Here 59 59

[Aweandlorder]

[kpaqu1]

Yea what's the point of mass producing a negative glass slide?

 

To make photographic prints for books, postcards, souvenirs, etc...

[Buzzetta]

The Lincoln negative is one of the best finds I have seen in this thread.

[Junkdrawer]

Here is my and I hope the best and this plate turns out big bucks, but this is a military photo and glass plates were very fragile, even for a baby photographer, so to have them out in the field well...

Another point is that in 1850 when these became first used in the USA, the emulsion was applied by hand and left a wavy edge. As you can see from the plate the straight black lines on the right side? Machine applied emulsion. Brings us to 1880. you do the math

Edited July 9, 2015 by Junkdrawer

[followtheleader]

High hopes for a collection tonight.

All 70s comics. Few Spider-mans and tons of military.

Tons of Kubert.

But stuff was SUPER beat-up.

 

I picked up a DC Super Heroes Light Up Drawing Desk from 1976. Has Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Shazam, and Robin on it.

Board game called Lost Gold by Parker.

 

Probably will pitch both! AHAHAHAH

It's been so much tougher to find stuff I want this year.

 

Patrick

[originalisbest]

In all likelihood, I will keep it. It will go well with the other Lincoln collectibles I own. I would love to find out its value though.

 

Well Ankur, let's just ask 291fifth -- I'm sure he'll give his usual generous estimate!

 

Anyway -- hope you enjoy owning it, and are able to find out more about it. I suspect it would likely turn out to be from the 1880's, as a WAG.

[jcjames]

 

Picked this out of a small stack of drek at an antiques store today for $2:

 

 

If it wasn't for my wife having to use the restroom, I would not have been standing around the back of the store and I would not have found that small stack of books to look through while waiting for her to return.

 

I'm posting it in PGM also.

 

 

 

[flikhype]

holy......any chance to share your luck? (keching)

[Chip Cataldo]

I picked up a DC Super Heroes Light Up Drawing Desk from 1976. Has Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Shazam, and Robin on it.

That's an awesome piece. Here's the one I used to have :

 

[uchiha101]

Picked this out of a small stack of drek at an antiques store today for $2:

 

 

If it wasn't for my wife having to use the restroom, I would not have been standing around the back of the store and I would not have found that small stack of books to look through while waiting for her to return.

 

I'm posting it in PGM also.

 

 

 

good thing your wife had to use the bathroom

[iggy]

Here's the pic

 

 

 

 

 

Here's info on the pic

 

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002713085/

AllPosters.com

 

 

 

I did some messing around with the pics.

 

The top pic is Ankur's photo reversed from negative to positive.

The 2nd is Davenport's pic sized to Ankur's and made 40% transparent.

The 3rd shows Davenport's pic at 100% transparency.

Then it gets interesting: notice jsilverjanet's pic has an extra figure in the pic.

Both pics have more image to the left, but Ankur's has more image to the right (notice the table far right, under the tree).

 

[01TheDude]

[blue808]

[jsilverjanet]

[iggy]

Oh, yeah I forgot about the 1880's version of Photoshop that allowed people to edit their glass negs.

[AnkurJ]

Iggy, I appreciate the research you have done. I think its time to move this discussion elsewhere as others no longer seem very enthusiastic about it. I have tried multiple times to scan it, but the image keep coming out very dark. It need to have a good backlight in order to capture the details.

[jcjames]

Picked this out of a small stack of drek at an antiques store today for $2:

 

 

If it wasn't for my wife having to use the restroom, I would not have been standing around the back of the store and I would not have found that small stack of books to look through while waiting for her to return.

 

I'm posting it in PGM also.

 

 

 

good thing your wife had to use the bathroom

 

I know! That's exactly what I told her!

 

Finally a potty-break pays off!

 

 

[followtheleader]

I picked up a DC Super Heroes Light Up Drawing Desk from 1976. Has Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Shazam, and Robin on it.

That's an awesome piece. Here's the one I used to have :

 

 

That was it brother.

You say, "was"?

Off to the recycler this morning.

 

Only thing I kept was an old Zingo handheld by Tandy. Never used, original box, bagging, Styrofoam, etc.

 

Patrick

[The Kaptain]

what is a tag sale? is that the same as yard/garage sale but with a foreign slang? never heard the term before

 

In CT, a tag sale is the same as a yard or garage sale.

[The Kaptain]

Went looking for comics. Found this.

Still looking for information on it, but one major dealer has told me its from the 1880's.

 

Its a glass negative of Lincoln at Antietam.

 

If it is truly a negative (which I believe would imply it is an original?) of Lincoln, then it can't be from the 1880's. Lincoln died in 1865 and he was at Antietam in 1862. So wouldn't the negative be from 1862?