Rare finds at a thrift shop! see what we found today! Vancouver Island

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I guess that's about right. Some artwork. Oh, 65 on the footstool is a little bit high, but you never know what they're going to have, so we'll go peek inside and see. Okay, when you first walk in the door, they've got all kinds of interesting stuff in the showcases, which is always good to check that out. Victor, follow the bird. Got coins, cufflinks. Randy Bachman signed microphones from the Guess Who. Oh, jazz. I used to like jazz albums. Sergio Mendes, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme. Some early jazz can actually be pretty collectible, so it's always good to have a look. Peggy Lee. If you get some early Miles Davis, I wonder if that's been picked over, if it's still in there. Well, no Miles Davis, but they do have records. Actually, a good selection of vintage stuff for a thrift shop. Nice old clocks and radios, Bakelite radios. Oh, they've got a Jane West with all her accessories. I wonder what the asking price on Jane West is. Hard to find with the box. Look, there's even Barbie's Cool Party. Oh, and look at all the old comics up top. I was looking through this rack earlier. It said Golden Silver Age Comics, five bucks each, and somebody must have just donated a whole pile of old comics. Classics Illustrated. I got a whole bunch of 10 and 12 cent Fantastic Four and Superman. Really early stuff, but I hadn't noticed that they've got even older stuff and other things on the back. Some are even graded. An autograph by Stan Lee signed and graded. Some actually really decent things. Wonder Woman number 14. Some heavy duty comics that were donated to this thrift store. I'm just looking out there. There's the Amazing Spider-Man, the first appearance of Prowler. I'm gonna have to take a good look at those. You don't usually come across Silver Age Comics at a thrift shop. So we're seeing some real deal collectibles in here. More so than I've seen in even antique stores as I've been out here. They got sports cards. Oh, there's a complete set of 7576 Opichi Hockey. A dollar each. I'll have to look through that. Sports cards individually priced. Oh, I'm gonna find some things here for sure. Look at that. The Lincoln Futura. That's what they made the Batmobile out of. The original model kit for that. 65 bucks. Guys, I'm finding stuff that's cool already and I haven't even looked all around. I haven't even checked out. There's Wonder Woman. Gosh, what was that actress's name? Catherine Bach was Dukes of Hazzard. That is Linda. Oh, I can't remember. Somebody at home help me out. It's actually a pretty good variety of antiques in this store. I wasn't expecting to come through and find actual like fine jewelry and it just said it's a it's an SBCA thrift store so some people were donating some really good stuff here. Nice old pocket watch right there. Oh, I like the trophy. It looks like a racing trophy. First place trophy for some kind of car race probably back in the 1950s. What they're asking on that. Gosh, look at all these cases. It's hard to stay focused. Oh, I see they've got their rock records are separated separately and they're playing them. Got Led Zeppelin going on right now but might be some good stuff in here. Melissa is busy over there looking at the books. You find anything yet? Not yet. Not yet? Okay. She's looking at the books. I'm gonna work my way around to the back of the shop. Oh, I didn't even notice the guitar sitting there. Dean's Stylist electric guitar. Nice hollow body electric. It's actually a pretty well curated store. You know from of course your usual sort of thrift clothes but the amount of collectibles in here is pretty impressive but to be honest with you I'm gonna go back over and have a look at those comic books. I'm easily distracted by all the other neat stuff in here like the Coca-Cola clock is kind of cool. Some of it is priced like an antique store but then some of it there might be a little bit of room. Oh, look at this little sprout cookie jar. That's cute. There's some Pyrex but okay I'm trying to go slow but I am going to go back over and have a look at the comic so let's roll on down to the toy and comic section. See if we can find a few things to pick up. I mean I've already got a handful of five dollar comics. This is what I'm getting for five bucks each by the way. King Size Thor number four, The Flash, Fantastic Four 78, 86. Twelve cent comics for five bucks each even though the condition is not great that's still I'm really happy with that. Romance comics we got some in here too. Somebody must have donated just an absolutely massive collection of comics here. The first Ewoks comic number one. It's like their whole collection of comics got donated here. Blondie, that's an oldie. I don't even see a price on it but these are probably like yeah 10 cent Blondie comics. A stack of them for five bucks. That'd be hard to pass up 10 cent comic stack for that price. I just you never find this this kind of old stuff but what I'm interested in is back there Wonder Woman number 16. There's like really decent stuff. Okay I'm gonna ask if I can have a better look at some of these things and see if I can find some real good ones. Oh look at the old uh Trans Am back there too. 79 Trans Am. You see that? I'm so much to see. You got Lone Ranger action figures from the 80s. You got vintage video game sets down there. Somebody had a really good collection and here it all is. What's in the showcase? Video game stuff, some statues, PlayStation controllers. Okay I'm gonna ask if I can see some of the things at the back and I'll show you what I We stopped in the SPCA thrift shop. Ended up getting a Stan Lee autographed Fantastic Four number 54 with the human torch on the cover. It's graded by PSA in five and a few other comics. So some really good finds today. If you're ever in the Brentwood Bay area come and check it out. They've got more than you'd expect at a thrift shop. Lots of antiques and collectibles. As for me I'm back on the road for more adventures. We'll see you guys soon and as always bye for now.