Summer season is a good season to be a collector. Hotter temperatures and nice climate carry alongside a severe string of out of doors flea markets and vintage reveals, so what higher time to get right down to some shopping for and promoting?
Plus, summer time is a season for locating your sudden new favorites. Whereas winter and autumn function the same old holiday-related collectibles (which we completely love, after all), summer time has so many sun-related equipment. From Edwardian swimwear to sun shades, summer time has all types of surprises for the collector who’s keen to assume outdoors the field. Even essentially the most mundane kitchen implements can spark a brand new assortment.
Not that anybody would categorize this explicit object proven in our video above as mundane. How may we when it has such a menacing blade? Though this would possibly seem like a instrument that would pierce human flesh, it was truly designed to dig into rock-hard ice cream. And if the design isn’t sufficient to excite you, it is best to know that this ice cream scoop is very arduous to return by, and it bought for a number of thousand {dollars} when it final got here to public sale. For extra on this one-of-a-kind piece (present in a Salvation Military warehouse), take a look at our dialog with WorthPoint®’s personal Eric Bradley to read more about how he did his analysis and uncovered this scoop’s hidden worth!
However this isn’t the one ice cream scoop we love. When you take a fast look by way of the WorthPoint Worth Information, you’ll see that there’s an antique ice cream scoop for each aesthetic and each value. Who can say no to a scoop that talks? Or one that appears like a penguin? Watch our video with Eric to see considered one of our very favourite finds!
Along with her function as HIP’s curator of images, Allison Radomski is a author and filmmaker. She spends her days attempting to find analog cameras, scoring her personal films in her laundry closet, and constructing her collections of Polaroids and handkerchiefs. She has levels in cinema & media research and spiritual research from the College of Chicago.
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