Garage Sale No.2

This is the last sale! Well and truly over it.

Get in the Antique Dealers, Call in the charities with trucks.

Then clean, clean, clean that house. Make the garden look great,
and finish.

The second sale was sedate, manageable.  Social, and time to chat,
have a cuppa. Long enough to do in 4 hours, then throw it all back
in and go.

 You can see throughout, what an eclectic mix it is.

 There is old and new, genuine antiques in with reproduction.

 Two different types of collectible, actual vintage, along with a 

newer collectible that will probably increase in value with age.

Anything old, hand painted or crafted, or of an antiquity nature was there. 

Across many cultures and eras.

 

 Just desperately trying to get enough tables and surfaces to put things 

out on. Display to best advantage, not crowd too  much.

 This I actually had fun with. Using a family heirloom trunk to display Olde Worlde style goods. 

 The quaint, the charming, times gone by, pastimes of yesteryear. 

A shop for a day, boutique meets old curiosity shop.

 New friend Janice made a sign and called this room 

'Collectibles and Antiques Haven'.

Didn't have time to photograph the front, which was a marquee set
up like a little market. Free stuff for kids on school holidays. Plants
and pots.

Clothes strung up on lines, unframed artworks on pegs waving in
the breeze.

More pics from Garage Sale

So much to set up, inside and out.

 Aisles and aisles of goods. Books, DVDs, Videos, craft items, dolls, repro, retro and  vintage 

 Furniture, cabinets, a Dexter rocker, which my son has decided to keep.

 Religious vintage pictures and cards, blue and white china, vintage sheet music, ornaments.

 An antique Chaise Longue, it has Colonial sugar Refinery bags underneath and all the layers of previous upholstery textiles. There is the movie star Benji. Fancy edged bevelled glass mirror.

 Gustav Klimt umbrella anyone? 

 A local after school teacher wanted a skull, to inspire the kids about Georgia O'Keefe's artwork.

 Shells sold well. I even had a Port Jackson shark's egg to give to a dear young boy.

 Boy George and Michael Jackson in a box. Sold. The eighties doll is going to a good home.

 Lots of hats on a nicely carved dresser.

 Various Chinoiserie. All the figurines sold.

 Sorry to say 'Country' is not selling currently. Artisan made Mammy Doll. Welsh loving spoon sold.

 Let's go fly a kite - Dragonfly or Eagle?

Lots of pots, and some plants sold well, also a hollow log for wildlife.

Mega Garage Sale!

Here it is, the stock from Garage Sale No. 1. How many will we do?

Would have loved a shot of the crowds, but we were too busy!

I think we have one of everything, if not several. People treated it
as an event, social catch up, and bargain hunter's paradise.

Some said it looked like a shop, and grandparents and parents told
their younger family members about 'remember when...'

It was highly educational in so many ways.

 Poodle pyjama dog from 1938, sold.

 Large glazed asian plant pot.

 A pair of silky oak antique applied design frames, complete with antique photo postcards. Sold.

 Tramp Art antique carved frame. Sold.

 Hand painted folk art milk can.

 Antique oil painting of sea scene. Needs TLC, great painting, includes sailing ships and seagulls.

 Handpainted chicken and rooster ornaments.

 Large carved and handpainted duck. Sold.

 Probably from the eighties - handpainted river rock, ginger cat.

 New leather boots.

 Leather travel bag, circa 1957. This went around the world on an ocean liner.

 Nicely carved and handpainted Balinese shadow puppet.

 Christmas decorations.

 Old wooden pigeonholes, rescued from Council Cleanup, $40 sold.

 Antique engravings, Nicholas and Alexandra.

 Russian lacquerware.

 Family heirloom trunk, no room to keep this. Leather detailing, inner pullout tray.

Initials are for: Heather Laura Cooper Adlam.

Below, a Singer sewing machine frame. Sold.

Getting Closer

So tired, so close...

We had the biggest Garage Sale on the Coast I think, unprecedented crowds,
standing room only!

Five of us could barely keep up, as we were bombarded with questions,
bargained down and had money thrust at us.

We actually made reasonable money, I paid back my costs. Lots of goods
went importantly.

But we still have lots left over...

I will have to do it again next week, and maybe again, and donate like crazy
to every charity around.

Here are some breaks I had, from the madness.

 I was interviewed this week for ABC radio, 'AM with Linda Mottram',
on the State of The Arts in Hornsby Shire. 

Location, next to The Mall Clock Fountain by Victor Cusack.

 I had a trip to the City of Sydney to hand over a 157 yr old family Bible. While there had the opportunity to view things from Charlotte's standpoint, her paintings subject matter. 

Here is as close as I could get to Fort Denison, bearing in mind, she had hers as a Nocturne, 

and I think with the smoky haze of residential fireplaces. How did she do it?

The other thing is, she would probably have had to be on a boat or
have good binoculars to do this, this close.

Maybe it is from an early photo as reference?

 Quickly I imagine, a woman should not have been out unattended by herself 

in those days, in a city park, going into nightfall. 

Or did she have a beau or friends to keep her company? Maybe the impression 

is hazy and simplified for this reason.

 Government House' gates were locked this day. The Governor was coming in and out, and Security was keeping the public out. So I had to sweet talk my way in, by showing the Police Guard
my copies of Charlotte's artworks, and explaining why and what I was doing.

I was personally escorted in to take 2 shots only, and thanked him profusely and out I went again.

The trees have grown over the view of the house in 110 years. The ground surface 

has changed and garden layout.

 The hardest part was the views of Circular Quay. It has changed massively in little 

over a hundred years. While some of The Rocks was saved, and there are some large, 

older buildings left, so much has gone. 

I also visited the Museum Of Sydney, and was told there are other old paintings that may help.
Arthur Streeton for one. My further research told me that some of the older buildings
in Sydney still exist, but their towers have been removed.

Of course too, the modern skyscrapers obliterate what would have been a more open view further back into the city from the Quay.

Walking on from The Rocks to The Sydney Harbour Bridge museum and lookout.

 This is an exhibit showing The Reverend Frank Cash's displays, a relative on my 

maternal Grandfather's side. This letter gives him permission to photograph the 

building work on the bridge and take photos.

I had to visit The Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout to see these displays. 

Apparently there are more at Moore College.

 The display says:

Reverend Frank Cash: Every morning for a year, the Rector of Christ Church, Lavender Bay (a former engineer) leapt from his bed to take a photo of the bridge reflected in the harbour. 

Parables of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the volume that resulted, was original and unique: part photographic portrait and apart engineering journal, liberally laced with biblical texts.

His actual camera. photos and quotes.

  I was this high up but on the facing pylon. It was a beautiful Spring day, just a bit windy.



I believe he would have been giving opinion here on the outer embellishment of the pylons.
The granite or sandstone (must check) Art Deco shells that wrap around them.

I just love them, they make it's style to me. Such good iconic period feature design.

This photo below shows an aerial view of The Quay, 

or Semi-Circular Quay as it was originally called.

One wonders how such a high view was taken? 

  See the steam ferries' funnels. She painted a boat like this. 

The wharves have changed, and the buildings just behind them.

Below is a good picture of a steam powered ferry, as seen from the bridge being built.

 Some views from the top. Our city of Sydney.

 What a difference a hundred years makes. Still building going on.

There is still much more research to be done, onto Mitchell Library, Moore College,
Maritime Museum and more.