Last July, when we went to the Brimfield Antique Show it was brutally hot; today was more of the same. I could have sold a cup of ice for a couple hundred dollars. I’ve never seen more wrinkly, over-tanned bodies (worse than the Jersey shore I tell you!) than on the outskirts of Palmer. I believe HGTV was filming there today — I wish I had taken the picture of the guy in the Giants T-shirt holding a sign that said, “Do not look at the camera.” Instead, I just pointed and laughed. I wanted to ask him how much he was being paid to hold the sign, but I had only just, you know, pointed and laughed at the guy. I’m sure he had no interest in striking up a casual conversation with me.

TIRH and I picked up three pieces of Fiestaware. I’m not sure of their actual worth, but I’m about to investigate. When I saw them I said to the vendor, a 30-something man wearing a baseball cap, “How much for those yellow plates?” hoping he wouldn’t know what they are and not jack up the price. Alas, his response was, “You mean the Fiestaware?” So much for my savvy. Still, he didn’t know enough, because when I asked him how old they were, he said, “From the 30s?” If he only knew that some of the ‘vintage’ Fiestaware can go for $100 a plate (I’ve seen salad bowls for as much as $500), he’d bone up on his Fiestaware knowledge. Silly goose.

We also passed by the mulletted ambiguous Raggedy doll in the picture above. I had both a Raggedy Ann and Andy doll as a child, yet I’m unable to tell which one this is. Either way, there’s a mullet and the signature tattoo over the heart.

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