Wishing You A Happy Holiday Season

[rcrawford34]

To You and Yours . Best wishes For a Nice and Safe Holiday Season . weavers

[tyler@ebay]

Thanks @rcrawford34! I hope your holiday was a fun and peaceful one, and that you had at least one or two nice splurges. 🎄❄❄

[rcrawford34]

tyler@ebay 

Ours was quiet but very nice Thanks.   I hope yours was Nice Too.  Taking a few days at home then will be out Picking again. A busy time Picking  there are some  great items becoming available.

The Vintage Feather Tree in the Picture we picked up a week ago.  (We got a Pet with this one.  One of the ugliest spider I  have  seen)  It was running around the branches and feathers. What a production 5 of us there all hate spiders close up and personal.   Took about 10 minutes to get it off the tree. It was terrified we were freaked. Reminds me of the Joke "How many Antique Dealers  does it take to catch A Spider"?

 We are keeping this tree  Have another one we have had for a few years that this one will replace.

In the week before Christmas picked 3 Vintage Feather Trees.   Walked into a Antique Mall about 3 hours from here not expecting to see one   we found 5.  Bought 2  that day then about home that day  decided we needed that one so back we went a few days later and got the 4 Ft one.  We are still considering the other 2.  Lots of travelling,  we should have just bought all of them at the same time

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[tyler@ebay]

@rcrawford34 - a surprise spider is definitely not what I would want either, lol. 

What a string of great finds! My rule is always 'If I can't stop thinking about it the next day I should just get it'. The only time it has let me down was with a store closing sale - I picked up one mannequin but wanted to get another and talked myself out of it. When I went back to pick it up the next day (couldn't stop thinking about it) they had closed forever. It was definitely a sad day. 

The tree looks lovely!

[rcrawford34]

I  deal in Vintage Mannequins when I can find them. One of the most interesting ones I had was about 6 feet tall and looked like the Oscar Statuette. It was Art Deco  from the 1930's

Used to sell them at shows. Came back from a show I had 2 female ones in the back seat of my car in pieces.  There was a parking lot beside my place and was unloading the car. Coming out of the door I saw 2 Older Ladies waist deep in my car  As I got close to the Car I could hear them chittering and they were not happy. Asked if I could help them  one Turned and angrily asked what I was doing with Naked Ladies in my Car? I replied they were Mannequins. A humph from both they both said FINE!! and left chittering the whole way .   Hmm  If they thought they were real my first question would have been "Why are they in pieces"?????

One of my fav responses to a Mannequin was at a show I was doing. I had a 50's Child's Mannequin. A Woman fell in love with it and bought it. When the transaction ended she gave me a huge hug and a big kiss thanking me.  Not a reaction  I usually get

Awhile later a friend came up to me and said "Do You Know who that woman was"? I had no idea. He said she has a TV Show . An Adult Entertainer in *blush "Adult Movies"  her show  discussed different aspects of Adult Entertainment  (It was rated 18 plus) and shown late at night

"chuckle,  All I could think of was How was I going to splain that one to my other half ????

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[rcrawford34]

Also had a 30's Partial Female Mannequin.  Called her Madge. This was From The Shoulders up.   We went a way for awhile and my Sister came into to look after our Budgie (Feathers)  I had it on a washstand near the door. My Sister came in turned on the light  and let out a Scream and ran out the door. The Light was trained on Madge 

I phoned her and she started giving me HECK!!!!! Big TIME!!!!  Told me what happened and how scared she was.  I did not help matters at all I started laughing and could not stop.   She still lets me know about that one

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[tyler@ebay]

That Oscar mannequin sounds magnificent! I laughed out loud at the Madge story and have now had to explain it to a few people in the office, so thank you for sharing! I have won the 'best member story of the day' so far. 😄

[rcrawford34]

even though I got in big Doo Doo from my sister

was thinking 

"What's The Use of Having a Sister If You can't do things like that to her" :>)-

[rcrawford34]

One more Mannequin Story

I moved here to go to University. For 4 years lived in a University Building for Married Couples that was  in the downtown section.   This house was at the corner of a major street We lived on the ground floor the last year there and the west  windows were close to the road and sidewalk. The front had a  porch and 2 windows

We bought a Mannequin that we placed in the Living Room in Front of a window near the sidewalk

One afternoon during final exams I was on the couch studying.  Had been there for hours and was right into it to the point I was bug-eyed.  Heard a noise outside looked up and nearly jumped off the couch.  There were about 25 pairs of small eyes staring into my Living Room they were at all the windows.   A class from a Local Elementary School near me was out on a walk. They had spotted The Mannequin in passing and of course needed to see it up close. Went out on the porch  the Teacher apologized. While it shocked me at first I was okay with it and we discussed the Mannequin and why I had it in my Living Room.  Gave the Kidlets something to talk about when they got back to school.

Little did  I know a few  years later I would become a Antique Dealer dealing in Old Toys and many unusual items.  Many we have kept in our place over the years between shows and markets. We never know what we we will have in here on display

The mannequin is sort of dull compared to some of the things we have had in  our place

My Favorite piece and has been with me about 18 years is Gerome.  A 6 foot by 3 foot Paper Mache Giraffe   Made in 1950  Gerome  (named after The Puppet from The Friendly Giant TV Show) was Used as a Store Window Display in a Larger Department Store for 10 years

I bought him for resale but he grew on me  and has been here since

He is such a Good Giraffe  I brought him in here  said "Stay"  and he has not moved since

He blends in well with the Vintage Christmas  old toys and many  varied items we display in here 

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