Buy and sell

This weekend was the town wide fall yard sale for Mediapolis. Mom had a lot of company as John and I, Judy and Grandma Weyer, and even Stephen and Carolyn were there to sell things!! It was the best outcome we're ever had, although not all the profits were ours. :-) John C made the most money. :-)
I picked up some great bargains. I love the rug I got for the pantry-for $5!! And I have always wanted Christmas china. This isn't anything fancy but I think it's pretty and I have gold chargers that will really make it festive! I got the china for $7.50!! Mom went back to a nearby sale after we left and got a red feather wreath for me. So sweet of her!!
THEN, the next day John and I went over to his Mom's to help with sorting out the furniture house. That was quite an event!!!!! There were so many nice things in there!! The walnut bureau with the solid burl top--a single slab of wood--was incredible. There is a very unusual rocker that John C thinks could be by a famous maker. There were several tables that were taken apart in order to store them more easily and now it might be a puzzle to decide which legs go with which top! :-)



What I practically ran home with was this OLD OLD spinning wheel that came from an estate sale at the house on Flint Bottom. Grandpa Weyer attended this sale about a year before we moved in to that house. Our future landlord was getting rid of huge amounts of things stored in the house and the outbuildings. The spinning wheel wasn't complete when Grandpa bought it but over a year later we had moved in to the house and John C was checking the wiring upstairs near a crawl space when he looked down inside the wall and saw the rest of the spinning wheel. I heard the story years ago but I don't know if I ever saw all the parts of the wheel. Well, the spinning wheel is sitting in my living room today. It is missing the foot treadle and the connecting rod but everything else is there. There is even some wool on the spindle although we think it might be a flax wheel. It's what's called a low wheel and is very close to the floor, angled, and small. Because of that and the workmanship, John C thiks there's a possibility that it's colonial. The workmanshop is quite fine and all done with hand tools. The metal pin for the spindle is hand forged. I'll put on a photo later of the cleaned up and temporarily put together wheel. The wooden pins are gone which attached the wheel rim sections to the spokes. I'll have to put in temporary pins, or some such, to hold the wheel together.

There was also this wheel which Grandpa Weyer purchased in Delaware years ago. He and John C worked long hours making replacement parts and maybe someday Dad will have a chance to put this together.

Judy and Mom made sure we had refreshments! :-) We didn't however, use the Burlington Basket Company picnic ice chest basket. It has a tin lining and has a compartment for ice!!!!

It was a long afternoon for Mom Weyer. Here she is looking at her mother's (Lottie's) treadle machine.