Wow! That is all I can say about this weeks Picks. One was from a series of barns that I had already picked and the other was an auction where the pickings were over the top! Now, I don't know about you but the thought of climbing around in an old, dirty, dusty, junky barn or house just excites me to no end. You never know what you are going to find and it seems that the more you look, the more that just seems to magically appear. If there are multiple barns or units I like to go to one after another and then do another round in each of them. I don't know why but I always seem to find something on the second or third trip.
That is exactly what happened on the first great pick this week. I had already done a pretty thorough pick of this wonderful lady's barns and home (or at least I thought I had) when they called me to come back out. This is one of my favorite clients and yes...I am wearing an invisible woman shirt because I knew it would tickle her to no end!
We dug around and found a ton of cast iron and industrial items that are super hot in decorating right now. I even had the guys crawling under workbenches to get 3 1930's license plates that Mr. Baber had put on the walls over 60 years ago to keep the rats out!
To your right is a 200 year old tree trunk that Mrs. Babers father used for feed storage. This would make a great table and can be found in our
shop. We also have his old tool box, a hay loader and tons of pieces of cast iron and old tools are hidden away in the trunk itself. I kept grabbing things to take with me and Mr. Baber would say "Kris, you really think that is going to sell?" and I would say "Yes, Sir I do" and he would just shake his head and chuckle and say "Well let's get on with it then"!
To your left is a bunch of old ladders, tables, cast iron, a fantastic handmade cubby cabinet and a cast iron McCormick Deering Mower that is just to die for!There is also an older John Deere Windmill in there along with lots of tools and shovels that you can't really see. We had corn shellers and the rollers that old barn doors were mounted on and so much more. We pulled a trailer and a truckload out that day and felt blessed to have been able to have spent some time with these great people that are not only clients but friends.
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| Making sure we didn't have any thing flying off! |
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| A little higher at the second auction! |
Now this next pick, well I don't know how to explain it...I could just let the pictures of my truck do the talking but I think I should elaborate some on what you are seeing. We went to the most amazing of auctions and just loaded the truck. We really did not think that we needed the trailer that day...boy were we mistaken...we could have filled that bad boy as well. The junk went on as far as the eye could see and we came away with a ton of it.
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| What to do with these? |
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| This was pretty sweet! |
We found old cast iron tractor seats, antique wood tool boxes, cast iron wheels from old industrial carts, carousel, cast iron cobbler shoe sets, mid century/Eames era stools, hay loaders, beveled glass lanterns and a ton of other things. It was all old and dirty and rusty...it was a bear to load and we were dirty as all get out but we loved every minute of it!
Here are some more pictures for you to enjoy!
There were old wagons like these all over the place as well as tons of wheels, wood, steel, metal, trains, glass and just a ton of things. I got an incredibly cool art deco japanese
lamp that I do not have pictured yet. I did not know the gentleman personally who had collected all of these things but I feel as if I got to know him a bit that day. Sometimes you can tell alot about folks by the things that they surround themselves with. He must have been an incredibly eclectic man who had an eye for all that is popular and hot in the decorating world right now. I was honored to have been able to acquire the few things that we did.
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| More Wagons |
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| Reminds me of Little House on the Prarie |
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| Incredible History |
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| Lots of Industrial |
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| Tons of great old circus stuff |
That is exactly what happened on the first great pick this week. I had already done a pretty thorough pick of this wonderful lady's barns and home (or at least I thought I had) when they called me to come back out. This is one of my favorite clients and yes...I am wearing an invisible woman shirt because I knew it would tickle her to no end!
