Look What I Found - Lane Acclaim Tables

So since the thrift store is just two weeks old, and people aren't donating in mass quantities, we find ourselves in auctions somewhat regularly.

Last Friday we hit one of our usual spots because we saw these pictures on their website:

My thought was: no big deal on the end tables, but I MUST have that articulated coffee table.

So we get to the auction, and after having spent maybe fifty bucks on several box lots that included a bunch of Renwal plastic toys from the 40s - 50s, some old flat irons, and some special dolls and teddy bears, the tables come up.

Turns out they were going to sell them as a set. Oh well! Guess I'll be getting the end tables too. It didn't take too long before bidding got out of my comfort zone. I paid a hundred and twenty five more for them than my previously set limit. But now I have a fairly desirable coffee table. You just don't see these every day.

Kind of looks like it's floating doesn't it?

Now if I just had an old scratchy wool sectional to put this in front of.

Or maybe a ten foot long sofa.

The coffee table came off the line two days before JFK was assassinated. 11/20/63

This is so cool. I had to have a bottom shot.

End table #1 - 12/22/62

Nearly fifty, and yet it doesn't look a day over thirty five.

This one isn't quite as old

It came off the line same time as the coffee table. 11/20/63

Some people like the old patina. Some like newly refinished

 

We're selling them as is and the new owner can decide their fate.

We'll be right back with . . . more stuff.