HUGE VINTAGE & FLEA MARKET | BIGGEST IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

[Music] good morning viewers it's nice to have you with us this is George the antique nomad I'm at the antique Nomad on Facebook Twitter Instagram and periscope and it's really nice to have you with us and please share with your followers I am here at the packwood antique flea market this year and I love this event and I'm really glad to get to show it to you the packwood hotel right behind me was built in 1912 and that's where I stay when I'm here this little town of about 450 people turns into a gigantic antique show twice ER every Memorial Day every Labor Day this is one of the best shows I do all year long and it could end up being a record I had a really fortunate bunch of new stuff come to me I've shown you some of that in halls also a bunch of silver and coins came to me at the last minute and there are a lot of collectors for that here so it's really been fantastic thanks for joining us folks I'm gonna flip the camera and we're gonna take a little walk around you can see there's lots of log cabins here this is the very end of the road as you go up to Mount Rainier and if you look way up high between those trees there you can just see the mountain off in the distance the very tip-top of it we're actually only about ten miles from there I'm walking into the first field here this is one of dozens of fields there are probably 20 or 30 fields this size full of antiques and vintage and other things I'm gonna show you a few of those we're at the packwood Washington flea market today and there's just tons of interesting stuff to see it's everything from antiques and vintage to new stuff to junk one thing you can find a lot of here are saddles this nice too old western saddle is a hundred dollars that seems like a good price to me I might come back for that this dealer has everything from kerosene lamps to patterned glass and Pyrex and stuff of course and cookie jars and all sorts of good vintage kinship kitchenware I really enjoy seeing that very popular with people these folks also sell honey and it's local honey which is nice because it means that you get the antibodies for your local no allergies and sort of things this is a neat piece over here that they have this big turn bench this has to date to about 1900 with all the turning posts and we're walking through pack the pack wood flea market in Washington this is one of many huge antique related flea markets that happen but on the west coast we don't have a lot of highway sales and this is a good example of one this is all lined up around highway 12 in Washington which goes in the country through White Pass through the Cascade Mountains so we get people from both sides of the mountains here you'll see lots of dealers with a lot of things here the whole wall of 60s and 70s kitchenware and canister sets and things oh I always liked these old stools like the red stool that we're walking up to you here and that's not a bad price for an old one at 45 there's also repurpose here I know a lot of folks like to repurpose look at these great antler lamps and I mean the prices really aren't bad this would be really cool there's a lot of people who come up here for a Lodge Dacor you've got chandeliers made out of antlers I mean these are pretty incredible things in my opinion very neat looking very appropriate for the mountain region that we're in these old adding machines and office supplies like this are starting to really be collectible too I've noticed and so we look for these now used to be we used them for door stops in the antique malls 20 years ago but boy times have changed hardened me and an old spotlight from a car these were popular in the late 30s and early 40s and they're pretty collectible for people restoring old cars and let's see here there's something kind of fun this is actually out of the late 60s early 70s and it looks like treasure craft the company I wrote the book on but it's actually by I believe Joaquin of California and so it was one of their competitors but very groovy swirled 60s colors I'm gonna go this way and not take pictures of people who don't want to be this is a neat place it's a country boutique and they've got old and new mixed in but then we get to this tent and I wanted to show you this will take a moment here everything in here is royal copeley and royal copeley was in I basically in the 1950s employee they've got a great selection of it here all sorts of bases the duck planters these little planters with the dogs the spaniels are especially popular from that era royal copeley was known for this sort of stuff they also introduced everything is $10 in here it says yeah and then they did all sorts of different motifs here they did wall pockets they did the birds they did all sorts of neat stuff some of it is called Spalding China here's the Spalding China mark on that so Spalding and royal Coakley are the same company if you ever see that the other thing that was really popular were the deer these two bases these pillow bases here I thought we thought it was curious they called them pillow vases but I think that had to do with something in China and of course because it was done in the 50s we have to have the poodles the poodles are reckless at 50s so this is a pretty neat collection of royal Cokely and I think I'm going to come back and get a couple of these pieces you know it's hard to film in shop I always wanted to do both at the same time so but this morning I decided this is just going to be about showing you folks what's here and I'll come back and do my shopping in a little bit we see a lot of old car parts in packwood this is a lot of stuff people use for rat rods and for even restoring a vehicle that they're putting two new depending I'd love to show you my booth but I have to it's all outside so it's all tarped off and I have to cover it when I get there so it's impossible to video and do that at the same time these lamps are really cute here and they need rewiring but that's a pretty easy thing to do the conditions really good on them and they're only 55 for the pair those are from about 1920 the filing cabinet here is neat too a lot of people interested in old office furniture now and this is a nice old oak piece from probably the 1920s or 30s so that's something that we see a lot of people come up here to buy furniture as well and then like I say you can sell anything in packwood so a lot of fabric in this space you see in some of it is vintage looking look at this very Pocky 1960s yellow fabric with the flowers here so you can get all sorts of interesting stuff in pack wood it's not strictly antiques and vintage there's just about anything you can imagine we're gonna go down to the next place here whoo look at this old wheel chair now that's something unusual that's very similar to the one you would see Franklin Roosevelt sitting in at the rare times they actually allowed him to be shown in a wheelchair they really censored that a lot because they wanted to seem strong but he was wheelchair bound for the most part and so it's kinda neat to see an old one from those days a lot of people museum is propped you can get really nice furniture and extensively in pack wood as well it's one nice thing about it being a flea market is the prices aren't necessarily as high as an antique store so you've got a really nice pine table for forty-five and a music cabinet from a hundred years ago for only $50 pretty nice useful pieces and then you've got people who do life board and this sort of thing like you see here as well and I want to turn and go back and show the goat cart goat cart is a funny thing people look at him and say oh well yeah goats okay who has goats well back in 100 years ago lots of people had goats and goats were who pulled your children around so that was actually a toy for kids believe it or not although you would have maybe loaded it down and maybe go take other stuff for you but goats are a little unruly I have a friend in Kentucky with goats and she can tell you that trying to get them to do anything that you want them to is less than easy so coming in here again we have more tables with various things you'll see a lot of things related to Western decor because we are out west and we're in the country this Conestoga lamp 1950s this is something that you push the tongue down and the light comes on and we see those because Oregon had their hundredth anniversary in 1959 and a lot of people made those and sold them at the time this is a cool display because you've got these folks work out of a bus this place actually has a really great display because they have their old school bus and they take all this cast iron around they've got Wagner ware and Griswold and lodge over the guy's head there you can see that gigantic griddle those are very very rare and hard to find in that size because he could manage anything that big that would have been for like the lumber camp or someplace where they just add a ton of stuff going on we're at the packwood MT of antique and swap meet in Washington the packwood flea market has been going on since the 60s and it's something that's never advertised you just have to know it's here and yet 20,000 people will come this weekend we were so busy yesterday I couldn't even really film so lots of horse tack and things like that and again above these people's heads the woman on the truck there you see Mount Rainier sticking out over the top it's kind of through the trees and there's a cloud above it so it may be that the snow blends into the cloud but those aren't the glaciers up there there are always glaciers on Mount Rainier and I have hiked to the base of a couple of them and it is a really beautiful place see a lot of rusted farm stuff here I've got a bunch in my booth too only $50 for that back end if you wanted to make a carriage that's a pretty good start for 50 bucks lots of old tools and stuff - obviously rust and iron is something people are interested in nowadays in a way that they never used to be so we see a lot of that so there's the back of the hotel where I'm staying and now I'm gonna walk across the street you'll see a bunch of RVs off in the distance here this place is a town of about 1,000 people and of those half of them are people who come and stay only in the winter for skiing so most of the year that's about 500 people in packwood and for this weekend there's about 4,000 people who stay here and about 20 to 30,000 depending on the year we'll come through here to shop so the RV parks are all just stuffed full of people over here we see under these hundred-year-old trees these this is the pack wood library you know a friend of mine here sells bicycles and one of the reasons he says really well with it is because people get here and they realize they need some way to get around you see everybody pushing carts and all this sort of stuff there's an old classic Lincoln Continental driving by they'll show that off that's kind of fun from the late 70s I say classic that I remember back in the day they were considered to not be very good cars this was a big tree here until last two years ago and unfortunately the tree started to rot out and they were afraid to it's gonna fall on the library so they took it down and then they had a local chainsaw artist come and they turned it into this really cool carved bear statue out in front of the library so this is the Friends of the library field they call it and again you can sell anything in packwood so you've got a booth here for example that's all minerals and well this is truly old I mean rocks and minerals are something that date back a million years so or more so and they've got some really beautiful pieces they've got these polished pieces and obelisks they have geodes they have some really unusual minerals these folks are really knowledgeable in this area and when I get old rocks and minerals I just bring them to them because they know more than I could ever hope to know about this sort of thing a bunch of agates here look into this it's sort of looks extraterrestrial and it probably was once upon a time okay then we've got a bunch of dealers in our field and it's not all antiques some of its justyou stuff but hey there how are ya I'm doing a little social media this morning so yeah so we've got Luisa flora gold we've got a nice old flock here we've got two horseshoes made into various things you're gonna see this around the park quite a lot some Jim Beam even a little Fiesta bud base so this is the thing you can walk through here and you can see really expensive beautiful antiques and you can see stuff that's just sort of interesting junk or things you can repurpose there's a whole lot of everything these folks said no photos on the left so I'm going to show you food on the right instead so we're going to go around the corner here now we're getting into the inner part of the swap meet and you're gonna see dealers here that have you stuff and antiques all mixed into one I'm just gonna pan this really fast and go to the left here because I've got to show you some things down here that I know are antique and vintage that I can show you trying to be respectful of not showing a whole lot of people's so then this is all skin cream for example just again you can have anything here in packwood these folks make give free samples of what looks like some really good nuts and various mixes there these folks have a lot of more new collectibles Lego and pokemons and all that sort of stuff but then we get into more antiques and vintage and use stuff when we go into the tent over here for example we've got an old Coleman piece from the 70s anything Coleman a lot of people come out here so that stuff sells this space is more again.you stuff that you never know what you'll find there's a 50s shell planter in the middle of it for $4 so that's pretty cool I was in Florida I better have to pick that up we've got another dealer over here who does a lot of holiday stuff and they've got new old and in between I am looking very much for antique advertising and signs and that sort of thing because I usually have a lot of that for this show and I barely could find any this last shopping trip and I am selling here in fact I'm going to show you my area here because it's all under tents and obviously I'm gonna have to get open pretty soon because we're starting to get busy lots of street signs you'll see a lot of this sort of thing here at packwood and there are some really cool ones things I haven't seen anywhere else so again lots of tools tools galore if you're into old tools new tools collectible tools something used you can use that's a great thing you will find here now I'm going to carefully step into my friend Mustafa's space he is more antiques and vintage so we're gonna see some older stuff I know that's more my thing and so I want to show more of that to you this purple glass shaped like a spittoon is an interesting piece that's actually a 1960s piece and he gets some really interesting sculptural pieces he does a lot of studio pottery Northwest studio pottery is a big deal here because we had Sperry and braves and those folks working he gets some interesting art pieces this one here I think is rather pretty from the 1930s or 40s it's similar to blood on Blandings work but I don't know who did that one we're gonna come over here here's a really great mid-century piece this orange chair here and this is a person from Tacoma who brings out a lot of stuff and he does mainly antiques so we've got the old cedar chest lots of people in the booth I'll show you my booth real quick that's it it's still closed off I will open after I actually get to a chance to show you guys some stuff but I really wanted to show you some things first there's another geode that's an awfully pretty one but this fellow is pretty knowledgeable about antiques and vintage and has some pretty things that will highlight here that's a bride's basket from about 1890 with the enameling pretty piece they're coming around here we're gonna look at we've got some early 20th century those are from about 1910 and then we've got His Majesty the King will zoom in on him that's King George the fifth and this is from when he was coronated and I believe 1910 as I recall out here we have some really pretty glass pieces I'll show you one more speaking of rust I brought some rust too and since this is the only thing you can see in my booth right now that is a sickle cutter I've got some advertising too I think the old tire sign is actually let me get down here yep need tires yep that's an old tire stand sign from the 60s my shadow of my head's getting in the way truck going up a slope alternate route oil truck I look for these kind of things that are a little bit more unusual signs that you don't see all the time because everyone and their brother has regular runs out here these crosscut saws our old logging saws and you see this really groovy trailer behind and the bicycles you'll see in the background these are my friends they come from tri-cities they play great 60s music in their booth which I have to talk over for copyright reasons but you can see some logging equipment I got from an old barn that I brought and then behind here's one of their bicycles and they come and camp out in this really great trailer that they're redoing from 1969 so pretty cool thing there go this way and let's go back to this side where he's got some more antiques and vintage we can look at he brings some really pretty glass pieces my neighbor does and here's another bride's bowl this is a very pretty brights basket this is what they call peach blow you see the peach color on the inside and the amber trim and then the milk glass here and then the bail that it sits in this piece is Italian from the 60s with the applied enameling and the colours and those are very good prices for those we do sometimes have really bad wind and rain here fortunately this time the rain was all during setup and the wind is really non-existent so it's supposed to be a perfect calm time this set here is Royal Albert this is petit point this is a pattern that was very popular in the 1950s and 60s and actually is very collectible now and I do see people looking for that over here he's got a cool piece I've always liked this this is por salir made in Ohio in the late 30s and you've got the flamingos and they did other exotic birds and I always thought those were really great designs and then back here we've got a really good piece of very collectible now green swung glass by Ellie Smith with the ribs and that's from the late 60s early 70s we're gonna see a whole lot of more expensive and interesting things when we get up to his showcase too so let's take a look at that and OPA slot machine that's a cool thing I didn't even see he had that up there I'll have to ask him about that I love having slot machines it's something that brings people right into a booth he's got some meet beaded work to these moccasins are very nice I'd say from the colors probably 1950s or 60s and they are definitely Native American made I'm sure Plains Indian some I've got quite a lot of Native American - hopefully I'll get to show you some of that later there's some very nice better jewelry and here I see coral pieces I can see some good costume I see some slight bracelets down there then also a nice carved Jade piece so again you can find everything in packwood from just low-end fun junk you can make into something else to things that you can really enjoy and have that are kind of precious heirloom type things here's an example here this is a royal Gouda handled bass and this is a hard thing to find these this is about ten inches tall there art nouveau they're from the 1910 vintage 1920s vintage and you don't usually see things like this in an outdoor flea market so this is a pretty cool place if you are in the Seattle area or Portland or anywhere in the Northwest this runs through Labor Day which is Monday and there is just a ton of stuff to see so I'd really encourage you to come on out let's see here we're gonna finish up on I'm going to find something that we can stand next to and then I'll say goodbye to you and I think it's gonna be this guy right here okay so here's this guy this guy is spelter looks like he's going to attack me but he is a heraldic figure from probably about 1890 this is when spelter was really popular it looks like brass because they finished it in a way to make it look like another metal but it's actually soft metals that were easy to mold into shapes like this and a piece like this he's only got 4750 on it honestly it's probably worth about a hundred so I will probably come back and buy this in a moment anyway it's really good to have you with us thanks for joining us and we will try to get back later and show you more from the packwood flea market I really do need to get going and get my spot open because we've got a whole ton of people around in there some of them know me and they're all looking at me like why aren't you open so I will come back to you later and thanks so much for joining you can catch me at the antique nomad on periscope Twitter Facebook and Instagram and bye for now [Music]

Channel: The Antique Nomad

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Keywords: flea market, swap meet, antique tour, learn about antiques, antique show, highway sale, antiques, vintage

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Length: 22min 51sec (1371 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 11 2019