Tuesday Treasures - May 12, 2026

 I went to an estate sale last month.  It was the second day, so items were half-off the stickered prices.  I would have bought more if they hadn't had so many little things (figurines and salt and pepper shakers for instance) in boxes sealed with plastic wrap for one price.  There would be one or two things I liked in a $10 box.  I overheard quite a few other shoppers complaining about this among themselves. 

Four things at 50¢ each... 

Japanese bone china Persian cat. 

A menu cover from an Alaska Steamship Company cruise, copyright 1941.  It's a print by Joesphine Crumrine, called Mageik.  There were at least eight different dog menu covers by Crumrine.  Inside right would be the daily menu, breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  

This poor little basset started out life as a pincushion, however he was used as a planter and is quite worse for wear now. 

A thrilling find! Rio Hondo pottery bud vase, 1930s - 1940s.  I like how the vase part was made to look like the pole of a merry-go-round horse.  That isn't a chip at the top.  This is my second Rio Hondo that isn't a dog.  The other is a chipmunk.

For $1 I got this ceramic flower frog that sits in the top of a vase.  There are slits in it to hold long, thin stems flowers upright. Age estimate is 1950 - 1965. 

I went with a friend, and she'd been opening day.  She bought me these two figurines then.  Both are Japanese made in the 1950s or 1960s.  I didn't collect dogs as a child, I was, like most little girls, into horses.  I had loads of Japanese figures in the early and mid 1960s. 

This guy is pretty big, with a cork in his base.  I had to do some research to find out why, he's not a shaker.  It was to make it look better for sale, to hide the hole from manufacture.  That's all!  I have some vintage Japanese Christmas items where the hole is covered with a round piece of painted paper.  They really cared about finishing touches.

An adorable terrier mom and her pups. 

There were a few others things.  In all I paid $4.50. 

Not having enough of thrifting, we then went to the Goodwill Bins!