Whats the best item you have found at a car boot sale and sold it on for a profit

[lejoueurdepipeau]

LOL - I always buy the little orange bible for the Brittany area Pipeau ! I have to laugh last year I came back with a load of English studio pottery ! You are right about the whisky tins and also whisky flagon jugs. What is it that the French like about those framed jigsaw puzzles? I've seen them hanging on people's sitting room walls !

Would it prove that I am really, really sad if I admitted to having that one too? There are 2,205 events listed in there! In mitigation we are quite close to the Brittany border here!

I can perhaps understand why one might frame a jigsaw that you were proud of completing yourself - but why would you want to buy one that someone else has worked on and framed??

The OH and I indulge in a rather childish game of spotting the worst tapestry of the day when we go to vide-greniers. The worst one we have ever seen was huge - about 4 feet wide, showing a naked woman on a beach surrounded by palm trees. The standard of the stitching was very high and it must have taken weeks, if not months of work. However, the skin of the subject was a most bilious shade of orange and words can not explain how hideous this picture was. It is very odd how awful they often are because there are absolutely gorgeous canvases available in France for needlewomen. I live in hope of finding a real textile masterpiece such as an old sampler!

[cornishmaid1961]

Would it prove that I am really, really sad if I admitted to having that one too? There are 2,205 events listed in there! In mitigation we are quite close to the Brittany border here!

I can perhaps understand why one might frame a jigsaw that you were proud of completing yourself - but why would you want to buy one that someone else has worked on and framed??

The OH and I indulge in a rather childish game of spotting the worst tapestry of the day when we go to vide-greniers. The worst one we have ever seen was huge - about 4 feet wide, showing a naked woman on a beach surrounded by palm trees. The standard of the stitching was very high and it must have taken weeks, if not months of work. However, the skin of the subject was a most bilious shade of orange and words can not explain how hideous this picture was. It is very odd how awful they often are because there are absolutely gorgeous canvases available in France for needlewomen. I live in hope of finding a real textile masterpiece such as an old sampler!

Well I'm shocked Pipeau that you haven't yet truely intergrated into French society by having a jigsaw puzzle and a bright orange naked woman hanging on your wall - not to mention a shelf full of whisky bottle tins !

[shezz]

Sounds like a Ganesh

errr not quite like your piccys



Stands no more then 15" high

scarry aint it

[Cushtydeals]

About 10 years ago.
2 Beswick Aryeshire cows 1st edition. mint condition. Paid £10 the pair
Sold 1 on the other side a couple of years ago. It made £325
The other one is still in the cabinet

[klj]

errr not quite like your piccys



Stands no more then 15" high

scarry aint it

I've no words.

[merlin]

1990 world cup sticker album paid 10p sold £205.00 buyer also paid £79.00 for sticker album i swapped for 20 cards

i know it was around $490.00 he sent in cash

[somersethedge]

shezz... thats an african tribal figure... it could be made for the tourist trade

[mainlypostcards]

1990 world cup sticker album paid 10p sold £205.00 buyer also paid £79.00 for sticker album i swapped for 20 cards

i know it was around $490.00 he sent in cash

R u following me? Just replied to a post on another site and whilst I was reading this thread you appear here!

[somersethedge]

didn't you know he was a stalker marianne

[mainlypostcards]

didn't you know he was a stalker marianne

I'll have to start watching my back then