Reply With Quotemy uncle is absolutely mad on them!!!!!! frequents all the main ones in the South and had a display in a antiques in Lyndhurst. Has has some great finds over the years. I cant get up that early on a weekend or id be out there hawking too
Went to the bootsale this morning!
Unfortunately no watches but bought 11 sets of guitar strings for £20 with a free capo thrown in!!!
Also bought a Solar Bowie knife, I reckon the antler grip is plastic though!, Again, £20 was the price paid!
It says SOLAR on the ricasso but very shallow!!
Also bought a small quadcopter that's amazingly agile!! (£4 paid!)
Got my lad a Metabo cordless drill for £30, It came with four batteries but two are very powerful and two are weaker!!
Does anyone else still go to the Bootsales?, I've had some great bargains over the years
John
my uncle is absolutely mad on them!!!!!! frequents all the main ones in the South and had a display in a antiques in Lyndhurst. Has has some great finds over the years. I cant get up that early on a weekend or id be out there hawking too
I don't get up early these days!! 7.30 as the first I go to doesn't open the gates for cars until 8am!!Originally Posted by southerner101
my uncle is absolutely mad on them!!!!!! frequents all the main ones in the South and had a display in a antiques in Lyndhurst. Has has some great finds over the years. I cant get up that early on a weekend or id be out there hawking too
A few more things I found at the bootsales!!
John
A President? I have one that used to belong to Gordon Giltrap, featured in his book and signed by him. Didn't pay a car boot sale price for it though!A few more things I found at the bootsales!!
That's a nice catch, full set and perfectly useable.
Yep, I got it for £30
That's a nice catch, full set and perfectly useable.
It's only imperial though- No metricI think I paid two or three quid for the combination set!!
John
Brilliant catch!
it is custom that, on The King's Day (coming Thursday!), everybody is allowed to sell his/her stuff on the street in the city center. We call it Kleedjesmarkt, roughly translated into Carpet's Market. I have found a worn Seiko 6105-8001 a few years back for less than 75 GBP. It needed a full restoration at Richard Askham's, but it was worth it.
Menno
If it was good enough for Queen Victoria it's good enough for meIt's only imperial though- No metric
John
Don't just do something, sit there. - TNH
love those catapults!!! bought back memories of my dads barnett diablo he kept in the garage.... must still be there!!!!
Great haul John!
I went to a 500 stall flea market today in the US and found nothing.
What a gyp!
Well done on your finds.
Cheers,
Neil.
Hee hee!! I old enough to have nearnt inches/feet/yards etc but it's nice to have the foreign method of measuring too!!, I actually found a 24"/600mm square at the bootsale too some years ago, It was a couple of quid and was also made here in Sheffield!!If it was good enough for Queen Victoria it's good enough for me
Hi southerner
I had one of the small ones as a kid, Every pther shot hit my thumb, It was like a banjo for months solid and throbbing like crazy!! I threw it away in anger hundreds of times only to go and retrieve it!!, No idea what happened to to it eventu7ally, I may have launched it then finally walked away...
Great haul John!
I went to a 500 stall flea market today in the US and found nothing.
What a gyp!
Well done on your finds.
DAMN!!
There's nothing more demoralising than walking around a huge bootsale/market and not actually find anything
Hope you do good next time and find another Roley or Omega
John
Hee hee!! I old enough to have nearnt inches/feet/yards etc but it's nice to have the foreign method of measuring too!!, I actually found a 24"/600mm square at the bootsale too some years ago, It was a couple of quid and was also made here in Sheffield!!
I'm in the process of stripping down and rebuilding this vintage Stuart steam engine, the parts are all measured in imperial units.
WOW!!
I'm in the process of stripping down and rebuilding this vintage Stuart steam engine, the parts are all measured in imperial units.
Brilliant!! That steam enging looks great!! I have a few from the bootsales but none as nice as that!!
Also have Micrometers and vernier guages too, Your micrometer looks very unusual, I've not seen one like it before
John
Some tools that I found at the bootsales over the years..
I have two X-Y vices!! This one is older than the other!!
John
That dovetaler looks a nice piece of kit👌
Done nice finds guys
Last year I happened across a car boot in my local supermarket car park, I paid £7 to two different stall holders for everything. Some of the bits are of no real use to me but were bundled together.
It was only £4 with all three sized cutters!!
John
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