Auction

A couple of weeks ago, I was browsing through some local resale website and chanced upon a posting by the Salvation Army in Nanaimo.  The two stores hold auctions every couple of weeks and people go bid on them.  By chance, I saw a coffee pot in a pattern that my wife started on just a few weeks ago, spurred on by a stack of plates for $1 (1/2 price) at the New West hospital auxiliary store.  This pattern is rare as we've only seen a few pieces in visits to dozens of thrift stores in the past few weeks.

So we made  a bid on a trip to Nanaimo and went it to buy it today (no one else bid on it).  Interesting system as they're trying to eliminate false bids and other rigging systems.  You need an ID slip these days!

Beautiful item 114 - Scraffito by Meakin

Stopped at the Ladysmith freestore on the way back but it was bare....