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Meister Markt

22 April 2011 • Garage Sale Goodies, Must See • by
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THE 2nd ANNUAL MEISTER MARKT SPRING ANTIQUES AND COLLECTABLES SHOW AND CAR BOOT SALE
MARKHAM FAIRGROUNDS – SATURDAY, APRIL 23
10801 McCowan Road (NE Corner of McCowan and Elgin Mills)
8am-4pm rain or shine (if the weather is bad ALL vendors will move inside)
Admission is $5 (kids 12 & under are FREE with an adult), with lots of FREE parking. Visit
the Meister Markt show office and fill out a voucher to receive a coupon worth 25% off
multiple purchases. For additional information, visit www.meistermarkt.com

Tommorow morning (Saturday April 23) Mum and I are going to be participating in our first ever antiques market… the Meister Markt at the Markham Faigrounds. We’ve put together a very respectible booth full of glass, ceramics, procelain dolls, vintage textiles and miscellany. We’ve thoroughly enjoyed collecting and displaying these pieces, but we’re hopeful to find new loving homes for them all.

Here’s a snippet from the show’s press release describing what the show has to offer

With over 150 vendors selling all types of cool and unique antiques and collectables in over 43,000 square feet of indoor space and 150,000 square feet of outdoor space, there’s sure to be something for everyone at the Meister Markt. Find vintage advertising for a loft space, rustic Canadiana items for the cottage, a beautiful mid-century lighting fixture for a condo or perhaps a solid oak bookcase for a home office. This show offers the ultimate in green living and recycling.

The vendors set up earlier today (from 3pm to 7pm) and once Mum and I were finished putting up our booth I had a chance to walk around & I can tell you that if you do have time to come to the fair tomorrow you will not be disappointed. There is truly something for everyone. I spied a couple of deco lamps that might just have to come home with me… and there was a fellow with a booth full of hooked rugs that I’m going to have to peruse tomorrow.

Now I only thought to take some photos after we had covered everything up for the night, but here’s a sneak peek of a little bit of the booth. The photo on the right showing our linen rack also features some of Mum’s pillows which she has made to re-use and display re-purposed lace. I will post updated photos to my twitter account throughout the sale tomorrow and following the sale I will recap the show on this website.

Hope to see you all tomorrow. Rain or shine it promises to be a great show!

 

Knit to “Do Your Bit”

17 April 2011 • Craft Tools and Ideas, Garage Sale Goodies • by
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This weekend I was up to Barrie visiting a friend & didn’t have the chance to get out Garage Sale-ing. Instead I stopped at one of my fave local antique malls – Roadshow 400 Antiques.

Normally I have a really tough time getting out of the mall for under $50, but since I’m effectively between jobs I challenged myself to keep it cheap. I saw tons of things that made me drool including these two beautiful Wades…

The pitcher was selling for $295.00 and “Peg” was priced at $40.00… a fair price for either item, but out of my range for this particular trip.

What I did come away with was the little booklet in the image at the top of this page – The Canadian Red Cross Society: Knitting Instructions for War Work.

Published some time during the Second World War, this booklet contains patterns for all the knit goods required by the Canadian Army, Navy and Air Force including the following;

  • Socks
  • Knee Caps
  • Gloves
  • Half Mitts
  • Broadcast Wristlets
  • Rifle Mitts
  • Whole Mitts
  • Two-way Mitts
  • Plain Knitted Scarves
  • V-neck Sleeveless Sweater
  • High Neck Sleeveless Sweater
  • Plain Helmet
  • Steel Helmet Cap
  • Turtle Neck Tuck-in
  • Balaclava (with chest and back piece)
  • Ribbed Helmet
  • Quebec Helmet
  • Pullover with Turtle Neck and Sleeves
  • Men’s Convalescent Jackets
  • Lightweight Amputation Covers
  • Seaman’s Stockings
  • Sea Boot Stockings
  • Areo Cap & Helmet

 

There are no illustrations of what these patterns work up to look like. When I get a chance I shall have to work through them to see how they all work up.

If you’d like to see the patterns & try them yourself, I have scanned the booklet as a PDF. Be forewarned, its a huge file. With 18 pages its approximately 31 MB. If you try any of these patterns, please send me a photo so that I can add it to this site (with appropriate credit given and reciprocal links where requested).

So how much did this little gem cost? $3.15

Happy Knitting!

Grace Anglican Rummage

9 April 2011 • Garage Sale Goodies • by
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Once again it’s Garage Sale season in Markham. Today Mum and I hit the first sale of the year… the Grace Anglican Church Rummage Sale!

Grace Anglican has bar none the best sales of the year. In the sring they put on a rummage sale & in the fall they have an antiques and collectibles sale that is to die for… great picks, better prices & all funds going to fund church work. Who can argue with that?

Today I came away with a tidy little haul of early 20th C. sheet music, a french ivory dresser box, two cute aprons and 7 books.

I love early to mid 20th C. sheet music.I’m not a musician, but the cover art is always great and it shows well on display. The photo above shows a sampling of my sheet music collection – only the sheet on the right was new to me today.  These sheets are for a Scottish Waltz and Two Fox Trots. “Billets Doux” c. 1921 (centre) was purchased in France and is stamped with distribution restrictions (could not be sold in Belgium, Switzerland, Holland or Luxembourg) and the suggested retail price (3 fr 50 – wholesale price was 1 fr 75). On the bottom of this sheet is a photo of the original chanteuse, Nina Myral, and see is wearing a tel beau chapeau!

As mentionned previously, “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue Has Anybody Seen My Girl” was newly acquired today. I wish I could sight read because I can’t picture for the life of me what a Fox Trot with Ukulele Accompaniment would sound like.  If you’re curious to flip thought it, I’ve scanned it as a PDF.

Here’s a pic of one of the little aprons I picked up. I simply can’t resist a vintage apron… especially one with rhinestones. I’m sort of wishing that I was back at the museum because they’ve got a building they call the Honey House and on event days I’ve spent more than just a little bit of time in there. Would have loved to wear this with my uniform!

The other apron is likely a old kit from Mary Maxim. The apron is made of muslin and is printed with an embroidery pattern of roses, daisies, lily of the valley and either foxglove or canterbury bells. The person who did the embroidery was either very young or a novice as the stitching isn’t particularly good, but the apron is still sweet nonetheless. I simply adore vintage aprons & it is my plan to have a rack of them in my kitchen one day (each with its own strand of pearls).

My next little find was this French ivory dresser box. For those who aren’t familiar with the term French ivory is actually a celluloid plastic. This particular box has two marks Imperial Brand and Ivory Pyraline. Having searched a few auction sites and found some vintage advertizing pieces my best guess would be that this piece is from the 1920s.

I have quite a bit of French ivory in my collection, but mostly just button hooks. I was really quite happy to come across this box and it was only marked $0.25. I have an antiques market coming up in a few weeks time and I’m tempted to try to flip this one for $8 – $10. If it doesn’t sell I’ll be glad to put it back in my cabinet.

Finally, the books that I picked up…. I found two collections of essays on women’s history and gender studies, the History of Scarborough, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and the Wake of the Great Sealers. I know that not everyone is on the same page re: the seal hunt, but this is really a phenomenal book which details the 1914 Sealing Disaster which had resulted in the loss of 78 men from crew of the S.S. Newfoundland. The illustrations by David Blackwood are beautifully executed and seem to move aas they evoke a sense of the inhospitable environment in a way that photographs fail to capture.

Finally the question I’ve been dying to answer since the top of this page… How much did all of this fun cost? All together $3.50!