So Cindy decided that we had too much "stuff" and it was time to get rid of some of the excess. So we decided to set up at the monthly Nashville Flea market. We picked the building we wanted to be in (very glad we were not outside - weather was nasty) and paid for our 9' x 10' stall. When we get there there is a guy already set up in our spot. Fortunately he is a nice guy and said that he has an annual contract and was not sure why they gave one of his two spots away. He also was buddies with the guy on the other side of him and they wanted to stay next to each other. So if we would agree to move down one spot he would give us part of one of his two spot just so we could have more room. Works for me. *G*

We set up Thursday afternoon and Cindy brought about 15 extra quilts and 15 quilt tops from her collection (most of them bought by me at yard sales). I had gone to the antique mall and picked out some of the jewelry I had there and brought that. I also had some punch boards, chips, all of the extra books from the stamps I have been buying, a very nice Knights Templar sword I got at a yard sale and a bunch of other junk some of which has been kicking around since I had a spot in an antique mall in 1990. Oh and the best item - a Roseville brown Pinecone pedestal. I never did find a vase at a decent price to match with it so I figured it was time to let it go (It didn't sell).

On Friday morning after getting opened up I decided to walk around and see what everyone else had. I didn't see much that was not there the previous month when we went there to check it out. But I had also brought some scrap gold (broken chains, a squashed ring and some gold pins) that I wanted to sell if i could get a decent price. A few items I had taken to local jewelers and pawn shops just to see what they would offer and the best was 65% of real gold value. After asking around I found an old guy who offered me 90% of real value. So I sold him $800 of gold even though there were a few pieces he didn't want. As soon as I did that I went to a coin dealer that I had talked to the month before about some Franklin mint token sets. He had a complete 1967 set of the tokens including the sterling silver ones (one is missing). I know he has had this set for a few years and was looking to get rid of it. He was asking $900 and I offered $700 and he took it! There was $686 in silver in there plus all of the other tokens. And on ebay the sterling tokens are going for twice the silver value. So I got rid of some scrap that I probably paid very little for and bought a nice set of Sterling tokens that are worth twice what i paid. Even Cindy couldn't argue about that. On Saturday I was walking around and found this Green Duck salesman sample rectangular token. Green Duck is the place in MS that buried all of the Playboy AC chips. Here are some pictures of what we did.