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<p>[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 8287018, member: 5515"]Good Evening Everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm so happy I get to share a post with you tonight, this was a thrift store find that had me in disbelief for most of the day. I struck out today with a plan to visit thrift stores for about 6 hours today, and on my second store of the day a miracle happened. This was a store that I've been to plenty of times, and I typically have a "route" I take through a store. With the exception of the clothing section, my route leads me through every aisle. I was making my regular journey, and I had just left the section that has all the silverplate junk; I was heading for the furniture/electronics section. On my way to that side of the store, I passed one of the employees with a cart who was heading back to the aisles I just came from. I quickly scanned the cart and on the lower level I saw a few items with potential (obviously could have been plated). Without being too intrusive, I turned around and walked behind the employee, and once they stopped the cart and started offloading items I took a closer look at the two items that caught my eye..........and just like that I was holding a plate that said sterling, and an amazing looking centerpiece bowl that said HAYDEN & WILDEN. </p><p><br /></p><p>I was ecstatic and didn't even look up the Hayden & Wilden while I was in the store. I decided to continue my journey to the electronics; I took longer than usual because I figured I'd stick around and see if anything else came out. So glad I did; after waiting awhile I went back to the silverplate junk section and scored a big sterling bowl. I figured that was all the silver gods were offering today, so I went and made my purchase and went to a bunch of other stores throughout the day. I did loop back to the store at the end of the day just to be safe, but these three are insane so I'm very happy with what I got:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]426498[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426499[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426500[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426504[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426505[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426508[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426509[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="MrNate, post: 8287018, member: 5515"]Good Evening Everyone, I'm so happy I get to share a post with you tonight, this was a thrift store find that had me in disbelief for most of the day. I struck out today with a plan to visit thrift stores for about 6 hours today, and on my second store of the day a miracle happened. This was a store that I've been to plenty of times, and I typically have a "route" I take through a store. With the exception of the clothing section, my route leads me through every aisle. I was making my regular journey, and I had just left the section that has all the silverplate junk; I was heading for the furniture/electronics section. On my way to that side of the store, I passed one of the employees with a cart who was heading back to the aisles I just came from. I quickly scanned the cart and on the lower level I saw a few items with potential (obviously could have been plated). Without being too intrusive, I turned around and walked behind the employee, and once they stopped the cart and started offloading items I took a closer look at the two items that caught my eye..........and just like that I was holding a plate that said sterling, and an amazing looking centerpiece bowl that said HAYDEN & WILDEN. I was ecstatic and didn't even look up the Hayden & Wilden while I was in the store. I decided to continue my journey to the electronics; I took longer than usual because I figured I'd stick around and see if anything else came out. So glad I did; after waiting awhile I went back to the silverplate junk section and scored a big sterling bowl. I figured that was all the silver gods were offering today, so I went and made my purchase and went to a bunch of other stores throughout the day. I did loop back to the store at the end of the day just to be safe, but these three are insane so I'm very happy with what I got: [ATTACH=full]426498[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426499[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426500[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426504[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426505[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426507[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426508[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]426509[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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