Rare Blenko Glass Leads to Antique & Vintage Thrifting Fun!

Our one-of-a-kind Blenko Devil's Head vase is going to its forever home, and we deliver! We're on the edge of Denver, and after getting to meet a really fun viewer couple (and being wowed by their tales of Treasure Craft and Blenko pieces found thrifting), we're motivated to go shop ourselves.

Colorado thrifting is some of the best anywhere, and our first stop is the last thrift stop in town, the east Denver Goodwill. Hollywood Regency style crystal compotes, teapots, 1930s Noritake and a strange looking tray all catch our eye...and that tray is by Mana, the wild potter who also ran the church whose peyote use ran afoul of the Supreme Court! Just that story alone is enough to sell this $3 thrift find for ten times the price, so we scarf it up and head east through the Great Plains.

It's a long ways to the next open thrift shop, but Burlington, Colorado's Prairie Family Thrift has enough vintage goods to be worth the wait! Like many isolated thrift shops, they're pushing prices up on more recognizable collectibles (Fenton, McCoy) but overlooking other things our collectors want (John Perry duo for $5, anyone?). We pick up three good deals and head across the Kansas border.

Our next thrift stop is where the World's Largest Easel and a high-style Art Deco museum draw travelers in...and where the Goodland, Kansas Church Thrift Shop stands open for business! There's plenty of fun things here, too, from Corning Radarrange dishes to a pair of 1950s toy typewriters. We do our best to ignore the forgotten $1 garage sale tag because they're still a good deal at the higher thrift store price.

Last is the Hays, Kansas Goodwill, a place we catch right at closing...we'll have to start here the next time we come through! But our afternoon thrifting across the Plains turns out grand, with half-a-dozen purchases of good vintage at great prices that will help us unite them with new collectors.

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