Sometimes, the second time is sweeter than the first! A collector friend takes us to "Treasure Marts" of Mount Dora, Florida, a vendor mall where decorator and new things conceal some wonderful (and wonderfully low-priced) antique and vintage items in their midst. We find vibrant vintage enamelware, a cozy quaint afghan, 1970's MCM modernist designer furniture and inexpensive Victorian enameled glass and spoon-carved furniture while I get my first impression of this place. $15 later, we pack our goodies out to the car and talk of the need to come shop here again sometime...
...but so soon? Just two weeks later, a rained out Sunday at my Renninger's Antique Show booth leaves me at loose ends, when some favorite YouTube friends and creators call and ask me to join them at this promising looking thrift mall they saw online...and it's "Treasure Marts" again! So I change into dry clothes and shop near the front while I await them, and am pleasantly surprised to find fresh things I didn't see the first time. Pierrot clowns by a 1980s firm that riffed on the original 1930s versions go up to the counter, and I scout a Westmoreland box and a big, bright two-tone Italian console bowl from the 1960s that I leave to see whether my colleagues will notice it.
Somehow, they sneak in behind me, and next thing I know, we're in the middle of the mall, where we meet up just in time to share the excitement of two Viking Glass 'Bluenique' 1960s pieces we all love! Sandy of @myflippingvanlife4437 has the covered candy, while Jocelyn @CrazyLampLady has the three-pronged triangle vase that's a miniature version of my favorite Viking vase in my own collection!
We comb the rest of the mall together, reading poetry in the form of 1920s Edgar Guest mottoes, sending goodies like painted parking signs and wild rooster figures to the hold area, and running into another friend who also ditched the soggy antique show to come find a prize in the form of an MCM ceramic mask. Turns out it pays to go back to vintage thrift places often!
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