Pair of slag glass egyptian lamps with 1920s cutout silhouettes.

I love these. I found them about a year apart but they are almost identical. One has a darker slag glass but otherwise they are the same. They have 3 way switches that light the base, the body and the shade separately. I think they are from the 1940's but not sure. 

ERTE poster from 1968, LYRIC OPERA

This is one of those great crazy finds. It was in the back of a stack of frames. I dont think the seller had even looked at them. I asked how much the prints were and he said 30 for any of em. I offered 20 and took it without showing him the image...Erte didnt do many posters so this is a cool find. I found it online for sale for anywhere from 400 to 750! Its in perfect condition and the frame is original. The image is very cool.

Pre-columbian warrior

Great find...some damage but a really really cool warrior. I asked a buddy of mine who knows this stuff pretty well and he thinks its either aztec or zapotec(sp). Either way its worth way more than the 20 bucks I paid for it.

Mission oak chair

Found this cool mission oak chair at the flea market. He wanted 50 which seemed fair but....

I offered 20 and he was insulted so I left. Two hours later I walked by as I was leaving and offered 25 which he took! I had the seat recovered with a flea market hyde I bought for 30 bucks. For 55 dollars I have a Mission chair that looks brand new!

Mission Oak footstool maybe stickley???

Flea market find. 30 dollars for a beautiful solid oak footstool with its original leather cover. The leather was beautiful but incredibly frail and brittle from age. I recovered it with a hyde I found at the flea market.

Looks beautiful and has an incredible patina. Can't find any markings but there is a space on the bottom where there was once a label. Ah well...for 30 bucks you cant have everything!

Peter MAX signed 1980 Democratic Convention Poster

Thrift shop find. It was in a broken frame with broken glass and covered in dust. Once I got it home I realized the poster itself was perfect with a pen signature by Max as well as a pencil signature from Dee Dee Ramone. After doing some research I learned that Dee Dee was an artist as well and friends with Max.
Its a great NY image and signed by two icons of the city. I had it reframed in a deco frame and it looks great. Paid 30 for the poster and way more to frame it!

Can't find the image anywhere on line...let me know if you have seen others for sale! Love to figure out the value!

60's Cubist by VB Rann

I broke my twenty dollar rule and paid 40 (off a 75$ asking price) but only after I went home and researched the painter online and found out the he is a listed artist that sells well at auction.
But the reality is I love the painting and plan on keeping it. Its a great cubist piece.

COOL 1960's painting for 4 bucks.

Really cool colors and I loved the wobbly shapes. It was in a stack of painting and most of them were dated in the 1960s so I am assuming this is as well. Its got a groovy Austin Powers vibe. Its an oil on paper in very good condition but no signature or date.

4th of July fleaing...

Paid $3.50 for a 1951 modernist painting signed Richard Kent. Its titled the Troubadors. Great color and lines...and well the price was right!

I tend to like old dog art, especially the rougher pieces

This painting was at the long beach flea market. It was the end of the day and I had found nothing all day when I saw this little painting on wood sticking up from the back of a box on the ground. I love the dogs surprised expressions. When I asked the price I was expecting to hear 50 dollars...she said 5...being the cheapskate that I am, I offered 3 and got it for that! It hangs proudly by the dog leashes at my house...next to the other two spotted dog paintings I found. The scratching shot was originally 50 dollars, i waited three weeks and got it for 15...the sad mother and puppy painting was 50 and after a month...I paid 50. ugh..ah well.

Knock-off Braque painting

I bought this on EBAY for 25 dollars. Its a huge Braque that was done in pasadena in the 1960s when there was a traveling show of his work. Its a pretty impressive knockoff, signed on the back by the local artist.

Love the Braque cubist pieces I find around LA

Fairfax fleamarket had a ton of old prints that had been in a storage unit since the 70's I picked up a Georges Braque litho that looks to be from the 1950's. It was 10 bucks and in perfect shape.
I should take it out of its frame and see if its numbered. Not sure on value but feel good about the 10 dollars!

ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?

Not my style but love the Dorothy Thorp lines...

Fairfax flea market is small but great. Its the kind of place where you have to dig through boxes...these really cool lucite candle sticks are dorothy thorp, a 1950s 60's california designer who worked in crystal, lucite and with silver plating. These have a few chips at the base but not really detectable. 5 dollars each!

Her stuff sells really well at antique and design shops...I have never seen this design so I am hopeful that they are worth  a lot more than I paid!

Fleaing in NYC...

Not actually a flea market but a thrift shop in New York...found this really cool old subway sign. It has a crank handle and I guess the driver used to scroll through the stops...it has about 20 different stops on it.
Some people take these out of the metal box and frame the stops but I love the rustic look of the crank handle...so for now it stays in the box. It was marked at 100 bucks but I got it for 50!

While vacationing in Santa Fe I stumbled on a small local flea market. Well I researched it online and then pretended to stumble on it so my friends would stop with me...I bought a really amazing old indian blanket for 20 bucks and this pot. I paid 40 (the wanted 80) for the pot but I loved it. Its got a stamp on the bottom that when I looked it up was discontinued in the 1930s so its at least 70 years old.

It has a really cool art deco feel to it with a snake wrapped around the whole piece. Thats its head and tongue in the picture.

Fleaing with Flody this week netted a 7 dollar poster from 1956. Its a french poster created during the Suez canal blockade that apparently limited the amount of Absynthe the French could get so the Ricard company created this poster showing a camel delivering the goods...with the caveat at the bottom...
something to the effect of "this alcohol is dangerous for your sanity, drink in moderation." No idea on value yet...but betting more than 7 bucks!

I love the New York Flea Markets...especially the one in the parking garage near 25th street.
When I was shooting a show there I would hit it every sunday. New Yorkers have so little space so its interesting to see the things that they collect and value...much smaller than the stuff in LA!
One of the larger items I found there was this really old hand tinted print of Siena. The frame is old fumed oak and if I had to guess I would say the print is from the 1800's but it could be older.
Feels like something someone brought over from Italy when they moved here.
They wanted 40 but I got it for 25 and then spent 100 shipping it to LA!
Ah well. Looking into its value now!

These bookends were at the fairfax flea market and I saw them every week for 5 weeks. They wanted 50 bucks I wanted to pay ten. After five weeks i wore them down and got them for 15. I contacted the Haring foundation to see if they were by Keith Haring. Alas they are not. Doesn't matter, I love them.

Went to city college flea market a few weeks ago. Found a really old beat up portfolio with a ton of art deco charcoals by two different artists and a stack of old ad campaign sketches. 10 of the charcoals had a very distinct look -- very Lempica -- I looked up the artist, Barbara Warren and found her to be a well listed artist from the midwest in the 1940's and 50's. They wanted forty bucks for the whole portfolio...about 50 drawings. I got them down to 20! It took two walk aways and one "look how beat up these are" to get them down but it worked! Here are some of the Warrens...

Went to the Fairfax flea market this week and found this really large Alain Pedrono photo for 20 bucks. Its signed 1984 and Pedrono at the bottom. Love the 1980's socks and shorts.
Not sure what the treatment is to colorize it but its very cool!

Some recent finds....

One of my favorite finds is a small art deco bust of a girl. Its set on a base and has some pretty cool markings.  It was at the Pasadena city college flea market. The guy wanted forty. I offered 20. He said no.
I walked around the market for a few hours and as I was leaving I noticed it was still there, I offered 20 again, he came down to 30. We settled at 25. It was still above my 20 dollar rule but I liked it! When I got home I cleaned it up a little and noticed a signature on the piece...A. Rodin. I am doing some research to find out if this is a first generation piece after his death. Anyone know anything about it?