Weekend junk score.
We found this Arthur Umanoff bar cart at a junk shop in Kingston for $30 yesterday. The doors were missing, but I was able to make new ones very easily—handles to come. We’ve admired Umanoff’s carts since seeing one at an antique shop last year (way out of our price range), so this was a real score. It was hiding behind a row of discarded shutters and windows, stashed under a plastic roof in the lot behind the junk shop. I still can’t believe I actually saw it. I feel so smug looking at my $30 find and knowing I didn’t spend $500 for it!
The best part about this particular score (well, aside from bringing home a really nice piece of furniture) is that it came after spending a depressing couple of hours wandering around the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, watching rich, old white people shop for overpriced furniture sold by rich, old white people. Yawn.
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What a great find! Congrats! I can’t believe what great shape it’s in. You’ve got a sharp eye!
you do have a sharp eye. i would love to go bargain hunting with you (if you only lived closer). we have some pretty huge warehouses filled with antiques here that you can simply wander for hours on end.
I’m inspired by your finds, Anna. And way jealous.
We spent the weekend in Vermont trawling for a nice, low dresser with simple lines, but came out empty-handed, with a similar impression of antique malls. And everything was colonial. I did find some nice textiles in a few smaller shops, though, and a faux-jade fish perfume bottle at a barn sale for a dollar, so it wasn’t a total loss.
(And please tell Evan we tuned in to WVKR on our way up - it took me back.)
ummmmm…WOW. That is such a score! Congrats!
Cheers!!!