"Gifted" - Brooklyn Flea - Deer Deer Me

I hope to see you all this Thanksgiving weekend at the "Gifted" pop-up shop in the old Tower Video space at Lafayette and Fourth St. NYC.

I am only doing the first weekend (Nov. 27, 28, 29) and that is probably my last big show before Christmas unless I get a second wind and book into an indoor weekend market.

I have lots of things I wouldn't mind seeing under my own tree this year, and will try to post some pics before I leave.

I also have a small selection of "craft" items and goodies made by some of my local neighbors. Mostly ladies in their 70's and 80's.

Let's say "Grannie made it" - would describe the overall look and feel.
I'll have a range of hand mades from "felt and bakelight button decorated purses" to Rice Krispie Xmas trees dipped in home made chocolate. yummy.

I love doing the fleas - but honestly it is hard work - and too cold.

So.

I am going to be posting a lot more stuff on http://www.etsy.com/shop/tincantrader before Christmas and over the winter.

My shop there is called "tincantrader".

I pretty much sold out everything I had listed - so I am going to add more items.

Check it out!!! But give me a week or so to get more things listed.

I'll also try to post here more often - as you've noticed - I am not a 24/7 blogger.

Thanks.

Halloween Weekend / "Brooklyn Flea" and Gifted Holiday Market

I've been trying to get ahead of the rain, which is becoming another standard weekend event this fall, by moving indoors whenever possible. 

At the Tincan Trading Post upstate - I will be having an indoor tag sale of Holiday Kitchen and Tablewares along with the usual array of great furniture, objects and household goods.

Lots of cool stuff for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner table settings and decorative objects.

That's this SUNDAY !!!

NOVEMBER 1, 2009  -  11 am to 4 pm

Location;

C MEYER RD.

AT THE INTERSECTION OF  RT. 97 / RT. 116

COCHECTON, NY 12726

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I'll probably do 2 days at the Brooklyn Flea the following week.

11/7 - Saturday in Ft. Greene.

11/8 - Sunday under the Brooklyn Bridge. 

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Then for 3 days over Thanksgiving weekend I'll have a booth at the Brooklyn Flea's "Gifted Holiday Market" running through Christmas.

I am only doing the opening weekend with a special collection of Holiday gift items.

NOVEMBER 27, 28, 29 - 2009

Lafayette and Fourth St.

NYC, NY 10003

(the old Tower Video space)

I hope to see you all.

Brooklyn Flea or Brooklyn Flee

I just spent a week in Brooklyn (in Bensonhurst where I grew up and spent my life trying to get away from) tending to family matters.

While there, I rented a booth at the famous Brooklyn Flea in Ft. Greene. I had resisted shleeping stuff into the city since opening the Tincan Trading Post up here, in my beautiful trailers. But after a completely rained out summer, I needed a new venue (with lots of cool people) for showcasing my "tincan" concept and actually selling some select goods.

So I gave it a shot - up at 4:30 and by 6:30 I was sitting in my over packed Jeep with a deer head on the passenger seat and squeezed into the last parking spot on Vanderbilt Ave. drinking coffee and eating a bagel.

I brought an edited selection of goods that covered only a small range of the categories I have been collecting - but very beautiful and unusual things that I thought would be better appreciated in the city than they are up here.

The hit of the day in Ft. Greene were 4 pairs of unworn Suede Spectators - probably from the 40's very Fred Astaire looking? As soon as I un-packed them a Japanese couple scooped up a pair and also a pair of leather riding boots I had. Several chic women bought the other 3 pairs of spectators.

I had a 3 piece group of original McCobb chairs and a coffee table from the Planner series. I was asking$250 a piece or $750 the set. Great price!! There was lots of interest and drooling over them but no one bit. Most people wanted just 1 chair and I didn't want to split the pair. I regretted having to load them back in the jeep. Next week I'll let them go by the piece.

I'll be in Ft. Greene again this weekend - Saturday Oct. 3, 2009.

Eric and Rob are the guys running the Flea and they generously added a blurb about me and the trading post on the Browstoner blog. http://www.brownstoner.com/brooklynflea/

Cold August too !

It was 50 degrees this morning and chilly now. I need a warm sweaty night.

With the rain and cool weather - this has been a rough summer.It is still super pretty up here - but foggy mornings and wet wet weekends loose their charm after a while.

So I guess a wrought iron fire pit with a Mexican type tile surround makes perfect sense, even in mid-summer. This is the perfect size for a terrace or city yard. Cozy up and warm your toes on fall evenings. Or in August of you live upstate. 

Wood Pallets. I have been finding lots of nice industrial pieces. Most are too heavy for me to manage and I have watched real beauties end up sold for scrap. I got a few nice ones lately - wood  and steel mostly. Some witrh wheels others just the wood. Most are on the small scale making them usable for the average apartment or house. The one pictured is 3 thick wood slabs bolted with heavy iron. No wheels. Just waiting for some legs to make a great table. Approx. 26" X 50" X 4".

Bi

New Merchandise / More Progress at the Trading Post

Here are a few photos of some merchandise I have going into the Trading Post this week.

Please forward this blog around to anyone that appreciates, needs and uses salvaged treasures - folks that are designers, photographers, architects, renovators, collectors, dealers, and obsessive compulsives.

I appreciate any feedback or inquiries if you are looking for specific items.

I think have something of interest for everyone - so don't be shy to ask.

tincantrader@gmail.com

I will be posting more photos regularly now that I have the trailers in place and can finally start staging them and unpacking items from storage.

I will post some new pix of the Spartan / Yellowstone and the Tool Tent in their new configuration and cleaned out landscapes - real soon. It kind of still looks like a "construction in progress" zone. But it is.

Here are some quick picks - basic but cool.

Enjoy.

Tool chest with built in cubby shelves.

I have dozens of tool bowes. I like to think that each one has an imagined "story" about the user in the markings and years of wear and tear. Were they a serious craftsman / tradesman or a tinkerer? It fascinates me.
Corner detail of tool chest
Inside tool chest. Removable drawers / all hand made.
Shipping crate / dovetail construction / advertising / I have lots of crates / boxes made of different metals and woods.
Milk box / tool cubby / storage caddy
Barn rig tools, pulleys, wrought iron hinges, latches, hooks etc...
Brass door fixtures, hinges, knobs, drawer pulls, etc...
Hand forged hooks / spikes - old wooden tools / work tables / iron forms, etc...
outdoor fire pit, wrought iron / Mexican tile
Army food storage / insulated. Ammo baxes, storage, crates with lids, shipping boxes, etc...
Tin toy car, more available, also coming great old wood / metal and homemade SLEDS
Oak dresser. Incredible simple design / beautiful patina on this one!
small doo-dads and stuff, tin oval frames / soldier photos / leather / wood fly swatters / oil paintings

Trunks, chests, folk art, tools, etc.
Stools and chairs
Maple kid's glider rocker chair / original fabric
Hour Glass lamp base w/ shade. turned wood fittings
Peacock wall hanging / part of set
Vintage medications, potions, ointments, advertising labels, tins...

MORE LATER !!

SEEING IS BELIEVING.

SO COME ON UP FOR A VISIT.

SAL

Taking it on the road.......

A slight change of plans this week.

Saturday the 18th we'll have a vendor space at the
Sullivan County Bicentennial fair and regatta on beautiful Lake Huntington.

This area is deep in history going back to early settlers and the native Indian conflicts as well as commerce and industry that grew along rivers in Colonial America.

Our home base is on the Delaware river facing Pennsylvania.

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TODAY - Go to Lake Huntington just 2 miles down the road.

Look for the TINCAN TRADING POST sign along Rt.52 near the "Our Place" bar.

We'll be bringing some special attic items if they fit in the Jeep.

There's a Victorian Body Basket / or mourning casket. A woven coffin basically.

Also have some beautiful shipping crates with local addresses from mid 1800's and a selection of vintage military books, uniform and bags. A few nice lamps and fixtures, plus a few surprises.

I hope top see you there.

FINDING GREAT STUFF

It always amazes me what's out there.

Yesterday it was a pair of Edison Mazda light bulbs (c. 1920 -30) both in exquisite wire bulb cages. Each wire cage is unique. One bulb still has a label.

And I wasn't even shopping - just stopped by a fellow trader's to say hi!

I had been craving these type bulb cages recently.

I love the combination of hand work and early ready made materials for utilitarian uses.

Nice.

JULY 4TH YARD SALE

Tincan Trading Post

Vintage Travel Trailers are also known as "tincans".

I have 2 from the 1950's and 1960's. This is the Yellowstone trailer - 1962.