Remember that fancy estate sale from last week?

I skipped it and I have a hunch it was just as well. Because... it's back this weekend. No photos this time, but a similar description mentioning all this fine "art" and some Tiffany glass. The sale ran three days last weekend (Friday, Saturday Sunday) and they probably had things way overpriced.

https://estatesales.org/estate-sale...zing-art-collector-eclectic-collector-2206205

This one is this weekend too, but I can't see a darned thing worth buying. If it's close enough I might go anyway since things are so dead, but my guess is they trashed anything actually worth buying unless the family took it with them.

https://www.estatesales.net/CT/West-Hartford/06107/3721095

Woodbury CT company = Greenwich/Fairfield/New York crowd prices to match. I've learned that companies from that end of the state are to be avoided. Connecticut is a small state with radical shifts in manners and income levels, and the out-of-towners have never ever figured that out.

 

I like that 1880s walnut wall shelf in the second sale. I'd buy that, but probably nothing else.

 

The history back in New England,what a part of the country.

 

That's the piece I liked too. Not enough to buy it, because they're going to charge a boatload and it wouldn't fit into my house anyway. The Waterford I'd buy if it was going for pennies, but they'll want $15 or $20 a stem. I'd pay $15 for the lot. The rest looks like stuff that was hot in the 90s and you have to knock down to not much to offload it now. They're from Litchfield, so they're going to charge Decorator prices.

 

Evely-I know you're in CT,but are you catching any of the rain Vermont's getting ?

 

Nope. Zero or close to it. Full sun here. They had a flood warning up in spots, but it expired. I didn't even get the rain I needed; Vermont hogged it all. The Connecticut River will eventually be rising due to the water but we probably won't get the worst of that either.

 

Went to that second one anyway, since the tag sales were a total loss. Spent $8 on one item. The heat and humidity exposure will cost me more than anything else. They had a few pieces of jewelry, all priced higher than I would ever pay. Left it all for the next guy. If there is a next guy. There were maybe a dozen of us there when it kicked off and a lot walked off with nothing. I could have bought a third set of late Georgian candlesticks, but for $20...nahhh.