An excellent glass day!

Fire King Sapphire Blue oven glass, 1 quart casserole, circa 1942-1950

Anchor Hocking "Bubble" 5 1/4" cereal bowl in sapphire blue, circa 1940-1965

FIND OF THE MONTH!! Colonial or "Knife and Fork" spooner/celery in crystal by Hocking Glass Company, circa 1934-1936 - this is a rare piece

It was an interesting morning. I really should be doing stuff around here, but really didn't feel like doing it. I decided to make a pass through the White Horse Road flea market, but as usual, found nothing. It's a nice walk anyway. I am making pasta with checca sauce this week (since I got a slew of tomatoes from Mom and Dad Tuesday night), so I didn't even need any produce; although I did pick up the pasta a the gourmet food place for 0.50.

Leaving there, I just really didn't feel like going home. I was pondering running down to Anderson Jockey Lot just for the heckuvit, even though it was overcast. That can work with you sometimes. Since there aren't a lot of shoppers, you can get good deals on an overcast day. On the other hand, if the sellers don't show up because of the weather, there isn't a lot to buy. As I headed back to the house, there was a traffic accident blocking the road. That was the last straw. I turned around and headed for Anderson.

There weren't tons of sellers today, but the front section was full. I decided just to walk around since I was down there. I did the yard sale section without seeing anything - even things I didn't want - and decided to head to the car. Just on impulse, I decided to walk through a building, since I had gotten a piece of pizza and wanted to finish it. After I did, I headed back towards the car across the front covered section, where I never find anything. I'm just used to walking that way because it's shady and completes a circuit of my route through the buildings. Oddly enough, there was a guy set up, up front with a table of old glass and ovenware. What caught my eye was a cobalt Manhattan creamer that turned out to be chipped. I didn't see anything else initially, and almost walked off, but he had set up a little lower table behind the real one. When I looked behind the big table, there was a little Sapphire Blue casserole - and he only wanted a dollar for it. There was a pink bowl that I knew was something, but I just wasn't that attracted to it. I later identified it as a bottom for the candy dish in the Jeanneatte "Swirl" pattern. It's worth $100 with the cover, but the cover was missing. I would have bought it anyway, but I didn't really like it. It's one of the patterns where the pink is a "muddy" unattractive color. More smoky pink than cotton candy pink.

The last thing he had on his table was a piece of crystal Colonial Glass. I wasn't sure what it was. I don't usually care for the clear Colonial, and the accessory pieces for the pattern are large and rather graceless, but I found this piece interesting enough to feel for chips and ask about it. He told me it was a spooner, and he wanted $5 for it. Out of curiosity, I looked it up when I got back to the car - more because I was curious about the pink bowl than the spooner, since I knew what the pattern was on it. It turns out the spooner in that pattern is a hard-to-find piece, and was valued at $75!! Needless to say, when I found that out I realized I had found a treasure and got all excited. I pulled up behind his booth, and he cheerfully sold it to me before I left.

I LOVE that rush when I find a treasure.

I was so excited about my find, I decided to stop at a little antique store I sometimes stop at on the way home from the Jockey Lot. In there, I found two sapphire blue "Bubble" bowls, marked for $3.50 apiece. A bargain, since they are worth $15 - I thought. I found out when I got home that I have been buying cereal bowls as berry bowls, since I haven't been measuring them. These are 5 1/4" wide instead of the 4" berry bowl I thought I was buying. These are valued at $14 in the book. It says a lot about how portion sizes have changed that I'm mistaking cereal bowls for berry bowls. People just really eat a lot more than they used to.

I was glad I waited to get gas until I was on the way home. One place was selling for $3.699, and I had planned on stopping on the way back; but when I did they didn't have any gas! Pissed me off that they're flagging that lowest price with nothing to sell. I spent just over $50 to fill my 15 gallon tank. If I had done that this morning, I doubt I would have driven on to Anderson.