Truck load of treasures! What’s in the crate?! plus more!

hi I'm Alex arts bull and I've been buying and selling antiques since I was 9 years old from basements to scrap yards I'll look just about anywhere I can to find lost antiques and collectibles and sometimes I'll go big and buy everything with my wife and kids we run an antique shop in Edmonton Alberta Canada filled with some of the most unique items we can find I never know what's going to happen or who I'm going to meet this is our life this is our adventure and this is curiosity home honey [Music] hey everyone so it's our third day back open at the store and we've had all sorts of interest people coming through the store but today I have had a gentleman pop in with the truck full of collectibles that he wants to Sally's been picking about for the last couple years and another lady is coming by in about half an hour with even more stuff so the items are starting to work the way back into the store we're gonna head outside and see what he's got and maybe make a deal okay so is it okay to open your door up here alright so you have your car nice and packed full of stuff and you were collecting for some time do you still collect what are you buying okay well I don't know this might take a small dent off of the cost of a Mustang but yeah okay so I see you've got probably the some things are in here and some things aren't okay and my understanding is you want to sell this all right now you don't want to deal with it piece it's all won money okay well let's see if we can take a bit of a gamble here and I'll go through some of this stuff we'll get an idea about what you're asking for and we'll bring it in the shop I'm kind of having one of those what have I done moments right now because I just had the store perfectly clean and now not so much well I got a 1960s boat motor in excellent shape why would I buy it somebody's got an old boat they need a motor in summertime it'll sell but that is my pile of stuff which we have to sort through today a culmination of a couple folks dropping things off we're gonna unpack this and go through it and see what we got but I definitely want to have this square footage back if somebody comes through here right now and they need access it's a little bit limited so I've got a work work work and get this all done [Music] first I've got to get the boat motor to the back of the shop we can get a set up at least that boat motor had the accessories here I've got the pressurized gas tank the little jerry cans is the whole outfit all I'm missing is the boat at this point but I'm gonna go put that with the boat motor actually it looks like that's for mixing for your oil and that's a little fishing bucket little anglers choice bucket there okay that will all go back in the same area curious to know what's inside some of these boxes okay we got a look in this big crate there is looks like a galleon inside boy they really had it all nailed shut I have to get a hammer and pry that all open I'll do that in a minute first I'll go through some of the easier things to look at yes I'm gonna guess dollars for donuts that's gonna be a typewriter okay that's better there we go a little Olimpia typewriter you know it doesn't have the the classic lines of the 1920s typewriters but these are a good capable machine if somebody's actually wanting to use a typewriter or something like that's gonna be pretty good we go set that in the back get that set up and out of the box there is microscope it's got some weight to it well that's been sitting around for a while a little bit of corrosion on the bottom but it looks like it's pretty intact it's got the lenses see that comes up Oh interesting that's pretty cool I'll put the cover back it's a neat piece and I'm going to guess and say that the other box yet another microscope antique microscopes are fairly collectible especially if you got one that's from the 1930s or so this would have been more probably like a classroom or you know minor laboratory use this was definitely better than just a kid's model that you'd see that children would get in the 1950s with the science kits this is these are definitely professional microscopes so that's good well a little stanley mitre over there for cutting your wood it's a nice antique thing but Josh could really have a use for that what's this lion menu cater lion duplicator company I wonder if this is like a little duplicate or like a little printing press let's see does that open up here well this is kind of fun this would be like a little silkscreen you could use this to make you know little signs or booklets or whatever you need really kind of cool if you're Andy Warhol you get pretty creative with that and it looks like it's all day or two it's got the roller got the instructions that's pretty nifty little piece what's inside box number two a projector with film I wonder what these movies are interesting well there is a little industrial looking film projector by 1940s from the looks of things this looks like it came right out of a school every sit down you're learning about the human body no and then they all go running out the door I think this thing is in pretty reasonable shape I like the little box we've got with it splicer so you can splice your film together nice looks like they built it out of a different type of crate like maybe old soda crates if they hammered together cool every time I open a crate like this I either am reminded of Indiana Jones opening the Ark of the Covenant hopefully there's no ghosts and goblins gonna shoot out of here or the dad from A Christmas Story getting the leg lamp fried Julie it's a major award on this case it's a ship and I gotta crack this thing open I haven't got this was in the military bought it in Spain apparently and it's been sealed up in this crate probably since the 1960s or so some of the first people to get this thing out of here hopefully it's not too damaged I can see some little pieces down here that might have fallen off so it's be careful to collect all those but we'll get her out of there that's how far I've gone and so far it is novel espanol from around 1690 it says there on the plate I can't pull it off of the base here until I get these brackets off so I'm gonna go find myself a screwdriver and loosen that off and hopefully I can get this thing out of here and we can see what it actually looks like guaranteed that hasn't been out of the box in a long time there she is one Spanish galleon out of the crate I'm gonna get some of the plastic out of here still so a lot of little guns on that you get into the really high detail I think it kind of expensive this is a it's cool it's an ornamental kind of piece it looked good if I have a boat a folk art boat on my fireplace people put them on theirs okay that's one down still have oh this other stuff to clean up okay I did get a couple showcases I'm gonna say that this was probably originally a spoon case you know people would have to collect your spoons hang in there they've taken it all out that would be great for putting war medals in tap badges even you could put shelves put diecast cars a nice little showcase I like the way it hinges - it opens up like so I'm sure we'll find a good use for it all this sell it to somebody who can but it's not the showcase I'm interested in it's what's in these boxes and in the other showcases that has more intrigue to me I'm gonna find a place to put the showcase where it's out of the way and then we'll dig through now this gentleman was a collector so he would go to antique malls and buy things so a lot of this came from antique stores I always like to find it when it's fresh out of the barn you know and you get to discover it for the first time but again this is these are all things that have been recollected like this he probably saw that 1878 $1.00 banknote dominicana that has been around the block a couple times that's a really early banknote that Canada only became Canada in 1867 so it's a really early piece of our history also this old catalog from the Pinkerton tobacco company in Toledo Ohio some people buy these just because they think the graphics are neither the advertisements are cool like its Singer sewing machine attachment to find all kinds of treasures in here this is just sort of a fun decorative piece it is enameled which means it has baked on paint essentially it's toilet paper holder you George bog limited high-class sensory equipment scientifically hygienic suppliers the nobility wait are they implying that the nobles would use a fancy floral looking place to put their dropping as I guess that's what they're saying you could feel like you're Noble too by having this in your washroom that's one Oh what's this Johnson's American anodyne liniment medicine bottle from 1898 still all wrapped up and it looks like in a cool bottle I have to set that aside in case bottle Bob stops by the shop at some point big old two-man saw yet one guy in one end and another guy on the other here or gal doesn't matter two person saw and you have a Turing is you saw through that tree big piece people actually buy old saw blades like this either you can do art on them and hang them up on the wall put it up as it is is decoration but I've also had people buy these because they use the steel to make knife blades out of so somebody's crafting their own blades and and want the steel this is excellent steel for crafting knives with old saws and saw blades like this can have many purposes I'm sure someone will think it's neat if I have to put it somewhere safe so the kids that come through my store don't bump into it always have a use for these gooseneck lamps you know when we were putting the store together and I wanted them to decorate with could not find them for the life of me now since we've been open for a little bit they come in all the time this does not have the original yeah but somebody's put a glass date on it it should be like this but that's okay it's a good base can still do something with it I might be able to find a shade somewhere but it back to its original function what do we have here oh I've had these before actually these are this is a bar set barbershop quartet that's 1950s you'd have that sitting on your bar mounted on something and then when you need a cork or you need a corkscrew there you go oh there one more oh yeah there's another one right there bottle opener okay everything is wrapped up so nicely here I can see that he took great care with the finger pad oh yeah then old Hudson Bay it's this is not terribly old you can kind of see it's got the milliliters on it they weren't doing that until later so it's probably from the 1970s or 80s if this was a real Hudson Bay ceramic bottle that could be you know like a seven hundred dollar item if it was real from you know the 1800 or 1900 s but this being a modern one maybe it's a twenty thirty dollar piece there are people who clogged Hudson Bay merchandise wanna Canada's oldest stores actually it's North America's oldest door Hudson date is I believe the oldest store in existence North America start off in the periphery I can feel that there's bottles or something going on in here he's got all this wrapped up really good what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna unpack this box and we're gonna lay it out on the counter and see what came out oh look it was wrapped up and even more better yo it's the old Pepsi bottle had a bunch of those come out of the barn see he bought this at an antique store likes please people buy these things you find them in the barn and people go why are you buying old bottles out of a barn well guess what they sell people collect them they put them on their shelves or apparently in boxes and wrap them up we're gonna go through yeah I'm gonna pack this whole thing to see what was inside that box had a whole bunch of Mountain Dew bottles an old Walter mainspring box some tins a little padlock with the key just kind of a variety these are doorknob plates four keyholes this is an oil bottle you puncture into your oil can so kind of a fun little variety well that's a looks like a 16 millimeter projector it's got a good look to it very Art Deco let's get this guy out and set it on the counter see what she looks like there it is probably a 1940's - judging by the look at that Keystone projector somebody has put a more modern plug on so it's probably I'm gonna go ahead and say operational fun-looking thing where would you put that well you could use it for projecting a lot of people put that on their shelf on display maybe in their theater room doesn't take up a whole lot of space but gives you that great look and appeal neat piece and now we've got the big box to go through I recognize this guy that's gonna be one of these bartenders yeah smoke he gets steam coming out of his ears he shakes a little cocktail I'll have to throw some batteries and then the see if he does anything is still a lot of times they stopped working but fun little thing t10 oh here we go ball tackle cutter original paint and pinstriping on there those are always a good seller my counter is getting nice and full at some point I'm gonna have to find a home for all this stuff multiple projectors the bottles it'll all get put away I just really want to get this big box out of here so it's easy to walk around let's see lots of big book the people's home library liniments oils diseases of the digestive organs this would have been if you if you live out a farm or you know you have livestock or what have you this tells you how to take care of everything around your house and that is a big volume as a thick book that is I'd say probably 1900s should stay on the inside cover 1916 pretty close signed by the author to Canadian National Telegraph and cable blanks in connection with Western Union that would be actually that would be kind of cool to put this up in my store here you know somewhere on the wall but they would have been able to do Telegraph's from wherever this building was probably a hotel or maybe a general store even like mine that's porcelain enamel again it's the greatest condition but sign sell sides are always very popular coffee bag there is a time that I needed a whole bunch of those when Josh and I are doing the ceiling of the other building but it's got something in it it's got weight to it what's inside I'm gonna reach down inside it's a bag of snakes it's not a bag of snakes what is it nope okay I feel something it is what is this did you catch her oh no that's not a big cancer that's a Seltzer bottle and a really weird shape to they would put carbonated water in here at the bar for doing your mixes and this is an early type of rap because they figured out that the compressed liquid inside would sometimes just blow up and you'd have glass flying all over the bar so early Seltzer bottles are just glass in the nineteen I think is the teens or 20s they started making them wrapped like this I've never seen one that shape before full fill bottom ball only use three bulbs only so I guess the idea was this must be so that the compressed gas doesn't build up too much pressure that's some real science going on there trying to adhere spark load gene fill bottom ball only that's a really unusual Seltzer bottle I like it cool kids little sewing machine miniature sewing machines like this actually do have quite a good following but that should be a pretty easy sale I think the last one I had like this went for around a hundred dollars Canadian imagine that is probably worth about the same nice little graphics on it you can actually learn to sew or use it these are functional sewing machines too so it's not just to look at all is digging through the box I'm finding really cool things in here but look what's on the bottom you see that there's a big sign down there on the bottom I gotta try and empty all this stuff out to get to it but it looks like that's a flower side no one - okay I got to do some unpacking here every little piece of paper is full of something it's like a [Applause] Oh beer stein let's see it's an actual German one yeah it's a German beer stein expensive when you buy these as a tourist you find them at yard sales all the time but when you buy these things over in Austria or Germany they're like really expensive like 100 euros which is um you know like 150 or more dollars for something like that you find these at yard sales for like five ten bucks either way it's still kind of cool in fact a lot of times you'll find the beer steins that have the little flip lid on it this one doesn't have one but that little lid that goes on top that you see on these was designed during the plague to keep black flies out because they would settle on the beer if you ever noticed that flies are attracted to the beer so they put a little little on top to keep you safe you flip it drink it close it up and you'd be safe and have a nice little drink but that does not have it's a topless beer stein there's another bottle this one's Mountain Dew I like there I like their slogan filled by clam and Gert it'll tickle your innards and look there there's a country boy is shooting at each other pigs wondering what's going on he's firing off its like feuding neighbors that's cute this was in the box too kind of neat like this is an apple peeler so you put your Apple on there stick it on this would clamp on to like a counter or table and you spin that and it peels your Apple for you pretty handy little invention still usable if you actually wanted to this would date to around the turn of the last century pretty neat piece you know that's the great thing about this Industrial Revolution type stuff it lasts forever a little bit of oil a little bit of maintenance and you can peel all the apples you want for a hundred years or more you'll be set well here is the sign it was a flower sign Robin Hood flower for sale here again this type of sign would have been mounted on the outside of a building very much like the one that I own and am in right now I'm sure I could probably find some space around the walls for something like that but there are collectors who buy these and will probably end up finding at home before too long the final box car sale stuff see something already this is actually quite an ornate little guy that is that's more than a toy that's an actual miniature sewing machine right there hand crank believe there would have been a plate on this side that maybe is missing I can't imagine they'd leave that spring exposed but what a lovely little piece there it goes how cute is that really really good condition overall - that's a nice little sewing machine I'll have no problem finding a home for that well that's a good sign hopefully there's some other really good things in this box - more than just that one swing Sheila - saw blade sharpener put that on your bench and put your blades in there no way here you go hood ornament off the mold fifties car where would this have gone you might ask where would that big thing be gone well look I've got one kind of similar on my own car here looks like an airplane looks exactly like an airplane see I said somebody else's airplane off of their hood I don't know if that Chevy you're old I'm guessing that 2gm thing they're going for that look but there we go pitted you can get that ground down and rechromed you know look nice and shiny like mine does well I don't know what that is that's a pigeon thrower for target practice for shooting you put your clay pigeon right about there you pulling it back and clean off it goes Pole and then it goes off in the air and you shoot out that's a good really one to cast iron still people that use those something shiny in here something crew there's still another box I feel like a kid just forging through oh wait that's a spring off of the thrower there have to figure out had which area was back on but that goes for that see lots of cast iron early stuff in here us that's it looks like a meat grinder yeah like he paid 46 bucks for that cool thing everything is more or less unpacked was not expecting the clay pigeon thrower or the antique hypodermic needle set with forceps another doctor's paraphernalia the sewing machine I'm quite happy about that's a good piece old coffee bags the little girls guitar normally I would have brought that home and given to my daughter but she's a little big for that now that may find its way to the auction house go to another home just a Kent classical guitar not worth a whole lot bit cool a couple neat signs which I was happy about which I'll show you in a second here but there was an antique gun case for a smaller sized gun no no gun inside of it but it's the case a little key shop sign the Robin Hood flower sign and it was also this the one we saw in the back of the vehicle it's from a shoe store the Williams shoe company limited Brampton Ontario Brandon Manitoba we sell them that would go on the side of your building Oh some interesting pieces very carefully set that back down well that's it a really good haul today it's always fun to go through these boxes and see what you're gonna find hope you guys like watching these videos if you're ever in the Edmonton come by and see what great antiques we have for sale in the store and yeah I've got my work cut out for me today so thanks for watching guys have a wonderful day we'll see y'all soon and [Music]

Channel: Curiosity Incorporated

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Rating: 4.9552197 out of 5

Keywords: iMovie, time capsule, antiques, toys, unboxing, with me, sealed crate, whats in the box, mystery box, alex archbold, curiosity inc, collectibles, antiques roadshow, discovery channel, mike wolfe, american pickers, tv show, full epidode

Id: T6SlvDv6yDc

Length: 25min 47sec (1547 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020