#Thrift Store Finds

[nyc-looks]

Jenn, 33

“I am wearing Public Desire boots, vintage skirt from Awoke Vintage, green vest and and jackets thrifted in LA. I am more into how I’m wearing vs what and uniquely creating my outfits. I love making every day feel like I’m playing dress up and today’s look was my if black girls had a Hogwarts and I was a head girl in potions class look.”

Oct 12, 2024 ∙ Lower East Side

[bootleg-bat]

LOOK AT THIS FUCKIN FAT FUCK I FOUND ON FACEBOOK MARKETPLACE

[nejjcollectsbooks]

Things I have found in books I've thrifted: postcard edition.

Feel free to reblog and add on any trinkets you've found in your thrifted books xx

The flower cutouts are there to hide identifying information.

[jfk-blown-away-blog]

Found a fucking Betamax player at the thrift store today. Also had a tape inside it.

[loycspotting]

We got an Obi-Wan Kenobi t-shirt at work today! It was him in The Clone Wars and I got so excited! It was priced super cheap too so it will probably be gone tomorrow but still. I also Ewan's movie The Ghostwriter for sale and it was still in the wrap! Cool stuff

[cowboycannibalism]

I have been absolutely going through it this week but today I found some cool muppet stuff at work (I work in a thrift store) that made my heart happy :)

I got this 1989 vintage Material Girl Miss Piggy doll on a stand, she needs a little cleaning up but other than that is beautiful!!

I also got this 1984 book of Muppets comics that features one of my favorite comics ever, which is the Gonzo bathroom strip!

[oracle-fae]

My favorite thrift find to date. Signa Tastesetter canisters and a teapot. They're currently on top of my kitchen cabinets until I decide what I really want to do with them!

[the-veil]

Saw these at the thrift store today.

[neatotito]

Radical🎶💿

[date-a-jew-suggestions]

Just found a charm bracelet at a thrift store that I can tell was owned by the most amazing Jewish woman

Who’s bubbe was wildin in Vegas. I need to know more. I’m obsessed

[peepingnee]

Found this amazing organ at the thrift store today

Tag yourself...

Personally I'm Orbit to Leslie

[maudlin-st]

Elvis monthly fanzine, No. 75 (April 1966)

[tngbabe]

Yipee!! Another thrift store find!!! Premiere issue? I just noticed that!!! Freaking awesome!! I just saw Patrick Stewart on the cover & asked them to grab it for me. It was behind the counter & in near pristine condition! I Love thrift stores!!

[nejjcollectsbooks]

black & red & black & red & black & red

> The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco > The Complete Poems by John Keats > Stoner by John Williams > Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger > The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse > The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux > The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft > The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins > Dracula by Bram Stoker

Thrifted tea set that my brothers got me. I had to pair it with my penguin classics and vintage classics.

[blueiscoool]

Woman's $3.99 Thrift Store Find Is a Priceless 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Vase

It’s the find of the millennium - well, two. It turned out to be much more. The vase dated back 2,000 years, and her

Anna Lee Dozier knack for second-hand shopping near her Washington, DC, home paid off big time. She was in a Maryland thrift store in 2019 and found a vase on the clearance rack for just $3.99.

“I saw this vase, and I assumed it was like a tourist reproduction,” Dozier told The Independent. “It did look old, but I was thinking a 20- or 30-year-old tourist reproduction.”

It turned out to be much more. The vase dates back two millennia. Her thrifty find was, in fact, priceless.

For five years after finding the vase on the clearance rack, Dozier kept the vase at home, she said, not thinking twice about it until she went on a trip Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology in January. There, Dozier said she saw vases that reminded her of her thrift store find, so she asked the staff what to do if she might have an artifact.

The museum staff told her to contact the US embassy.

“I came back to DC not thinking it could really be something, and I didn't want to bother the embassy, so I googled some professors who were experts on Mayan or Mexican history,” she told The Independent. When no one responded, Dozier reached out to the embassy, where staff asked her to send detailed pictures of the vase.

A month later, Dozier learned it was a ceremonial urn from the Mayan community dating anywhere from the year 200 to 800.

After learning she had thrifted a priceless, ancient artifact, Dozier was connected with the Cultural Institute of Mexico, where a ceremony was held Monday for the vase’s return. It will now make its way to Mexico’s Museum of Anthropology for analysis.

Dozier, who works as a human rights advocate for Mexico’s Indigenous communities, said she was glad to be a part of the vase’s journey home.

“Human rights extend to culture and history,” Dozier said at the event on Monday.

Dozier isn’t the first to accidentally stumble upon an ancient artifact.

In 2017, an Italian marble expert discovered a 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic was being used as a coffee table in a Manhattan apartment for the last 50 years.

The apartment owners thought nothing of it when they purchased the table from an Italian noble family in the 1960s, they said at the time. It has since been returned to the Italian government.

By Katie Hawkinson.

[bandbabe]

I found some piastricore™ at a vintage store in the middle of nowhere today.

Photo description: [image 1, small ceramic container painted to look like an oven] [image 2, ceramic container open to show a tiny ceramic shirt]