I AM CLOSING THE SHOP IN CALLICOON ON OCTOBER 31, 2012. 

WE ARE RUNNING A GIANT CLEARANCE AND MOVING SALE.

PROUD TO ANNOUNCE WE ARE NOW AT 

THE HAWLEY ANTIQUE EXCHANGE 

ON ROUTE 6 IN HAWLEY PENNSYLVANIA.

LEVI SELLS OUTSIDE ON SUNDAYS. !!!!!!!!

Royal Spartanette Travel Trailer - For Sale

 

 Circa 1952 - Aircraft quality Aluminum and Birch. Built by Hughes Aircraft to highest standards.

 Exterior is in excellent condition. Needs polishing. No dents or creases. All original windows, doors.

 Ready for restoration. Needs some TLC. Interior is in great shape overall. Original birch cabinets.

Kitchen has large banquette seating, original DIXIE stove and sink. Three piece bathroom.

Though most folks think Airstream sets the standard of luxe in travel trailers. I've always preferred the more pedestrian rigs. I bought this Spartan many years ago and never fulfilled my plans to restore it fully. It was usable "as is" and I started my business in here - hence Tin Can Trading Post. 

Now I am ready to find a new owner and home for this incredible trailer.

It currently sits in a lovely field by my house in Cochecton NY. 

Located just over 100 miles from NYC - and easily transported by a towing service. 

For Sale - $5000.

Chair Seat Repair by Pam Sloan

I am proud to have Pam Sloan doing chair seat repair and upholstery at the Tin Can Trading Post. She works primarily in rush, cane, wicker and other traditional and natural materials as well as doing upholstery.

I gave Pam work space in my shop and a venue for her to exhibit her work and take commissions. She is usually here on Sundays and when the Farmer's Market is in season she works out front showing interested folks the process and procedure of traditional chair seat repair.

This lovely chair is an example of a restoration and upholstery job just completed.

I sold the client the chair frame. Pam did a complete restoration and paint job on the springs and frame, added horsehair padding, then covered the cushions with the client's fabric and colors
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The piece is now at home in a penthouse apartment in NYC.

Pam is at the Tin Can Trading Post on Sunday - December 18th at Noon doing exhibitions of works in progress and hosting a holiday cookie sampler.

She can be contacted at rushseats@yahoo.com or here at the store.

Cochecton NY - where I live now.

Cochecton was a thriving town in the 18th and 19th centuries. Sitting at the point where the bridge connects NY and Damascus PA.

It's Main St. and adjacent roads were filled with merchants and hotels all serving the rail travelers heading north or to local destinations. The original RR station is preserved but moved to a new location a few miles north.
There is still a feed mill in town adjacent to the RR. It's been there for more than a century.

This was a Standard Oil pump house until burning down in 1880. Today it stands as a Gothic brick ruin, windowless and roofless, just across the creek and the field I have my trailers sitting on. Me and my dog Bella visit it most mornings. There is a fantastic swimming hole and fishing spot too. It's as cool retreat on hot summer days - right out my front door.

The whole area was part of a commodities transport hub along the river and RR. Logs, coal, feed and all other products of 19th century life passed through. The train still occasionally runs along the Delaware river - a few hundred feet from my front porch.

Oil was pumped in ceramic pipes to Kingston NY from the pump house, for the NYC markets.

I still have lengths of pipe exposed in a wooded hill and stone ridge I own, overlooking the river, originating from the pump house.

Standard Oil employed dozens of men that would run along the pipes in relay following a small cannon ball to assure that there were no blockages. The pipes head due north to Kingston over hills and valleys.

Those guys were tough. Many died on the job. There are surely spirits in them thar hills!