Items of Value Inc

For this sale, we have once again removed items from our 2,500sqft showroom that were not selling and replaced them with new items. You will find more fine jewelry, individually priced and on display in our showcases. There will be NO costume jewelry at this sale. We are using that table space to present a variety of boxes of many different styles, materials, and vintages. We are offering vintage 45rpm records that just came to us along with original Thomas Edison phono disks and vintage 78rpms. The Edison disks are thick and make great souvenirs of the first mass-produced audio recordings in the world.

This is "last call" for a huge assortment of silverplate eating utensils, as well as mid-century modern dinnerware in light gray, yellow, light blue, green, and Pepto Bismal pink. This is last call for vintage/antique pink Depression Glass to which we have just added a period pitcher to complement the assorted plates, cups, and bowls. We have an enormous quantity of pieces to the porcelain dinnerware set of flowers painted against a black background. If they do not sell, we will send them auction. That is usually what we do with items that have not sold over time.

If you are planning a trip to Europe or have already been, you should buy your travel souvenirs from Items of Value sales. A couple who recently returned from France told me that they should have purchased their souvenirs from us because they are less expensive in-country. What's more, some are vintage, so no longer made. Do you know the original Latin name for Paris? It is "Lutetia". You will find two cups/saucers marked "Lutetia" in our showroom. Currently we have a lot of souvenir spoons, coffee mugs, plates, lapel pins, key chains, small statues like the Brussels "Mannequin pis" and a small Eiffel Tower, the lion of Geneva. We just found in one box that we recently unpacked a pressed glass plate for the Queen of England dated 1897. So that plate is over 100 years old.

For this sale, we have assembled an assortment of large and small colored ceramic IKEBANA containers. You will also find coupled with them an assortment of large wood slices that are used to display items. The smaller wood slabs are an odiferous wood that can be used to display small items or as scent blocks to put in drawers. Other vintage Japanese items include handpainted porcelain plates, black and goldtone painted lacquer rice bowls with lids, and a very cute standing wood carving of a racoon. If you are interested, you might take home the vintage Asian writing table or camphor chest that we have tucked under it for lack of space elsewhere.

We have been assembling from multiple clients militaria from WWII, getting ready to offer them all at once. They include American military, European military, and Russian military. For the moment, we offer you at this sale two plates from the Marine Corps. One is vintage mess hall style while the other has gilt rim and is porcelain. The large Asian cooking utensils, the vintage/antique British toasting forks, and the German blue on white Christmas plates that we offered previously are now all on ebay, as well as the Swarovski crystal ornaments.

We have unboxed another 200+ CDs since our last showroom sale and over 160 more nonfiction books. The CDs include the "Rat Pack", Nat King Cole, Tony Bennet, Benny Goodmand, Glenn Miller, and the Big Band era as well as six CDs of Celtic music. The Celtic music CDs must have been purchased on a trip to Ireland. So you will note changes in our displays compared to our sale two weeks ago. Come for a good time.

We also have bed headboard/footboard combinations plus frames for twin, double, king size, all in fine condition because they were in guest bedrooms. Some of them are photographed here. We are holding them in temporary storage one block away from our showroom. Ask about them.