Deco mantle clock. I'm going to give this to Carlton-Browne but don't tell him, it's a surprise
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It’s the season when the car boot enthusiast is out in force in Lincolnshire
I don’t normally frequent them but Mrs Macca wanted to look for some furniture to restore so along I went to supervise the children.
She found nothing, accompanied by my 7 year old however had a rummage in a house clearance that was for sale...
Ended up spending 7 of my English pounds on this very cool smiths 3 second face stop watch (fully working) and these awesome tinplate pencil tins, any of you 80s/90s kids will probably have had one of these as I did! Well I had 2 on my shelf for years and still have them..
Anyway, let’s do something a little different, want to see some car boot bargains as I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s found some interesting things
The tins are in the garage so I’ll dig them out and post later
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Deco mantle clock. I'm going to give this to Carlton-Browne but don't tell him, it's a surprise
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Good luck everybody. Have a good one.
Found Seiko data 2000 with instructions in box fully working for £3. Now gone to Hong Kong.
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Ok so I’ve managed to dig out the full haul, put them away while diy is underway in the garage/man cave
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The best I managed was a sterling silver, Yard-o-Led propelling pencil for a quid. Unfortunately don't have it today as when I split up with my ex PBH* she applied the 'what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine' rule.
* Psycho bitch from hell.
I've had a few car boot bargains over the years going back to when mechanical watches were all over the place, much more difficult now.
I guess my best finds were a large IWC from 1946 for £3 and a Heuer Autavia for £100.
Loads more that I swapped for a Rolex Exp II.
Still out every weekend in the season.
Cheers,
Neil.
My only contribution to a thread about car boots is that I used to pop around and have robust discussions about ugandan politics with a neighbour while her husband was out looking for tat on a sunday morning.
^^^ “discussions about Ugandan politics”
Now there is an interesting euphemism!
For some unknown reason my 11 year old lad took a shine to a Kenwood breadmaker last Sunday, even more strange was I said he could have it but god knows where it will live, anyway he bagged it for £1..