Treasures from the auction

The whole Rantmeister clan went to the local auction last night and we bought so much stuff, I had to leave partway through and take the van home to exchange it for the pickup truck…we were going to need a lot of carrying capacity.

I bought a couple oak file cabinets, a couple pieces of old matte green art pottery and a nice blue-to-yellow glass Toby pitcher, the blog-daughter bought a set of Johnson Brothers dishes (including platter and gravy boat) for $2 and Doc-wife got the weird buy of the night…she spent $20 for this HUGE (4’x4’x30 inches deep) three-drawer file cabinet absolutely full of dressmaker patterns from the 1940s through the 1970s. There must be (very conservatively) 750 patterns in this monstrous vault, plus lots of zippers, lace and other do-dads. Son-and-heir and I toted it into the house last night and it probably weighs all of 200 pounds.

I guess it was the one thing she never knew she always wanted. Mental note: Don’t let Doc-wife get hold of the bidding number again at that auction…ohhh, my aching back!