Conference

I guess it is time to blog on the hunt. This year's conference was great but not much time for visiting with friends. The show and sale was fun and we sold lots but still to had to pack lots to come back home. At the show and sale we bought a red and turquoise 12" vases. The look great sitting next to the 12" yellow vase. I hope to get some pictures up soon.

We took a quick trip to St. Louis to attend the ball game. We stopped at one little shop in Bowling Green and they had a lt grn carafe without lid and chipped for $120.00. Jane and I just shook our heads. Once closer to the city we stopped at St Charles Antique mall. Nothing all the great there. Did see Luray coaster/nut cup that had a small nick. We passed at $24.0o now I wish I would have bought it as these are hard to find.

I am going to an auction this Thursday July 24th to an auction that has fiesta listed. STay tuned to see what there is.

more pictures

Here are a few more pictures and one of a friend.

more road trip pictures

Here are some more road trip pictures. The three juice glasses are from our collection.

Road Trip

Sunday June 14th I drove to Paris, Illinois to a great auction. There were some cool items but then the auctioneer paid too much attention to the owner of the stuff and some things were not disclosed. Both the 8" Cobalt and Yellow vases were repaired. Some things sold cheap and others went for stupid prices. Like most auctions and this one had online bidding. This is where we bought the last juice glass we were looking for the hard to find forest green juice glass. We are posting some pictures of the table of fiesta.

another harder to find item was a Century Ivory Demi cup and saucer. Don't know what it sold for as we didn't stay that long. I stayed at the auction for three hours and started the trip back home. It was 4 hours each way.

Some of the items that sold were

Gray Juice pitcher $1,000

red Juice pitcher 325

gray juice tumblers 70 - 100

other jubilee tumblers 25 - 40

set of 6 juice tumblers all colors 90

8" yellow vase repaired 200

8" cobalt vase repaired 275

10" red vase 675

AD coffee pot cobalt 275

rose AD cup and saucer 210

#4 mixing bowl lid glaze not that great $375

#3 mixing bowl lid $425

For some reason two people bid up a cobalt KK pie plate 9" to $200 (Crazy)

all red relish $220

This is just a little of the prices. Like I said some of the common items sold fairly cheap.

13" Chop plate

On Friday the local mall had a 13" Ivory Chop plate for $14.00 less 10%. It is still there just don't need one for the collection and there is not enough profit room. Might go back and pick it for kicks.


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Andy and Jane

HLC Rescue item

We could not pass by this server and not pick it up. It was a whole $4.00. Another item from Gypsy Caravan. Would you have rescued this server?

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Andy and Jane

Gypsy Caravan St Louis

Today Jane and I made the 2 hour drive to the big city to the Gypsy Caravan. We didn't see much fiesta between the rain drops. Perhaps the best deal but we left it was a damaged piece. An ivory coffee pot with lid. The lid had two small nicks and larger chip on the lid rim. The base had a nick. The price was $15.00 and the lady probably would have taken less as the rain seemed to hurt everyone's sales. We saw other items but nothing to write home about. We did buy some Metlox Poppy trail Series 200 items. An ice lip pitcher with 8 matching tumblers. This set I picked up for $60.00. I think it was a good deal.

Memorial Day

Jane and I plan on being in St Louis for the Gypsy Caravan flea market. We are going to make a weekend of it. In years past the pickings have been little for fiesta. One time we did find a gray demi cup. So stay tuned if we find or see anything we will post pictures.

Andy and Jane

Auction Fiesta

We headed to an auction last week and there was some okay Fiesta. The relish trays sold for $170.00 and $140.00. The demi cups and saucers were $45.00 each and you had to take all 6 of them. The only item we wound up with was the ivory casserole lid. It is in great condition for the grand price of $25.00. Keep checking back to see what our travels find.

Andy and Jane

The Hunt continues!!!

On our trip back from seeing our daughter and son-inlaw we stopped in Williamsville, Il and took some pictures of fiesta that has been in this booth since our daughter was 16. She is now 25. The 8" vase is priced at $775.00 and the onion soup is $725.00. I wonder how much longer this stuff will sit there. I once had the mall call the owner to see what they would take for the vase. I don't remember but it must have been too high as it is still sitting there.

Andy and Jane

New Blog

I thought it would be cool to blog about our hunt for fiesta. So we will be posting about our travels and hunting for fiesta.

Andy and Jane