This is Why the Brimfield Flea Market is the Greatest Flea Market of All Time! May 2024, Part Three!

[@nicolefaulkner5402]

Hi Tom and mama ❤ we watch your flea market videos every Saturday morning. It’s part of our routine. Thank you for being you!

[@thenewsupercfl]

Great video! Getting ready to go to my local flea market right now. I believe the big mouse is the puppet Topo Gigio from the Ed Sullivan Show.

[@edbouman5013]

While you were busy looking at the frogs around the 5:00 mark, there was a box on the very edge if the table and at the very corner of the table. In that box was a toy battery-operated car with 2 people in it and the female passenger in the car has a camera. The car is from the 1950s, and the box it was in is in extremely good shape. You should have bought the car, they go for several hundred on E-bay!

[@jeffwalker8101]

Enjoyed the video Tom. That bulldog growler, I saw on the American Pickers and it was from the 1890's. Sure had alot of great stuff at this flea market.😊

[@zencat102]

Finast was the house brand for First National Supermarkets. I remember one in West Hartford Center in the 1950s

[@michaelwells710]

Mouse looks like Topo Gigio. Italian puppet show but was featured on Ed Sullivan Show. My mom loved him when she was a kid.

[@edwardtraylor3984]

The big gray mouse is most likely from a Chucky Cheese pizza restaurant they had outside in front of the restaurant. You may not have them in New England as to why you didn't recognize it. But here in East Texas and surrounding areas, we do. Houston especially. Thanks for another awesome flea market adventure video.

[@christinehutchins123]

We have chuckie cheese here. I thought it might be Chucky cheese looked too old I thought. I have no idea how long Chuck been around.

[@udavemartel]

Great videos. Keep them coming. The "Finast" stuff was from a food store called First National.

[@falloutgirl6551]

I go to brimfield every year I love it

[@Idelia412]

The old cast iron door stops have very smooth finished surfaces. The reproductions have a grainy surface which is also the case with cast iron mechanical banks.

[@bmohin]

I think the older Disney stuff say “ walt disney productions” on the back. Sometimes there’s a date on the bottom somewhere. I have to carry a little magnifying glass now in order to see marks.

[@christinehutchins123]

I gotta go now. I haven't been since I was a kid. My parents were antique dealers and it was different back then. I really wasn't into all the antiques. Looks like its changed a lot and its more to my liking now. Back in the day it was only antiques and the very best ones at that. People are more into vintage stuff now. Gotta check it out!

[@TheBargainBoxer]

Looking forward to your storage unit collection reveal!!!!

[@normagrimstad8869]

I’m checking out Tod’s Farm in Rowley, MA. this Sunday.

[@stevep8445]

That hand chair reminds me of the odd couple where Felix redecorated the apartment. He bought a pair of them, only they were leather.

[@classrockin]

Too funny, that's exactly what I thought of when I saw that chair! I remember when Myrna ( played by Penny Marshall) tried it out, and said, " I feel like I'm insured by Allstate" 😂

[@cairnmom3228]

Great video, Tom! Brimfield is the best! I think that big mouse is Topo Gigio. Probably before your time! 😂 I remember Finast brand sold at First National supermarkets here in RI. Have a great weekend !

[@Madness832]

And in the 80s, it was carried by Edwards, which, by the 90s, became Stop & Shop.

[@cairnmom3228]

@@Madness832 I didn't know that! Thanks.

[@markstrouse3101]

Hi Tom, there was a guy and girl at the indoor garage sale I go to in my area in Allentown Pennsylvania that was selling character glasses for $3.00 each but I don't know if you want to travel that far just in case they aren't there in November. The show is only two times a year.

[@llovethe80s]

Toy works is a sub division outlet store for KB Toys.

[@johnfronczek2658]

I remember Finast Supermarkets. I think they closed in the middle 1990’s. Circa 1990, My older brother worked at a Finast Supermarket. Later in the summer of 1995, I worked at an Edward’s Supermarket ( a related chain of Finast). I remember having to wear a dress shirt and tie to Edward’s. Six months later,in 1996, Finast closed and my Edward’s Supermarket became a Stop & Shop Supermarket. In 2000, Edward’s finally closed.

[@Johnny-np2zx]

We had a Finest supermarket in Central VT back in the 80’s. Definitely gone by the 90’s.

[@baseballloreandcollectible7171]

FINAST. Yes, my mom's fave store here in Manchester CT. 70s era into 80s

[@beneasterling3846]

The first wrestling figure you were unsure of was Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, not Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. The other figures were Hillbilly Jim, The British Bulldog and Tito Santana, not Paul Orndorff

[@malcolmharing3744]

No Haystack Calhoun? 😊

[@cidsanta4204]

Looks like you’ve reached 20k! 🎉🎉🎉

[@avgjoeavglife]

Character glass collection tour when? 😅

[@beav1962]

I live 20 minutes away, and try to go to at least 1 of the shows. The summer one is tough due to the hot weather, but I missed the spring show, so I may have to brave the heat. Also, I hate it when people don't price their stuff.

[@malcolmharing3744]

I'm a lichen this flea market😊.

[@matthewnaylor4412]

A lot of that cast iron stuff comes from India where it's cheap to cast and produce, have seen tons of there all that mitchelin man stuff and them Boston terriers. And probably lots more.

[@Wdstroud]

I think that giant Mouse is Topo Gigio from the old Ed Sullivan show.??

[@llovethe80s]

Hopefully you'll get 50K subscribers 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@southernvtgrown]

My option on the cast Hubbley, you really need to know the molds, the quality in the work, how well they fit together, some are marked on outside, some you must open. Just a flat drive screw does not mean much today. You see many with newer phillips drive screw. I am sure I missed many other points, anyone else knows some good info list below, let's get some good information out. ✌🏻💚🙏🏻

[@kathyblessing1940]

When I shop Goodwill and Savers I ask myself where are the antiques? Then I shop Brimfield or Mansfield Flea markets or Yankee Flea market and I have my answer!! There is a lot of old stuff still around and out there!!

[@WesDerry-d8d]

The dogs you were looking at are Boston Terriers, not Frenchies

[@POPSYZE]

❤super

[@margaret-mure]

Are character glasses radioactive?

[@fleabittenadventures]

Nope

[@umrmech84]

I bought a video game arcade marquee just about a month ago for my favorite game from my college days (Pengo). I paid $65 for it. That said, if it was just for random "no name" games, I wouldn't have paid $50 either.

[@NoahSmith-gb5go]

I would love too go too this flea market how did you like it?

[@normagrimstad8869]

It’s the best. It’s huge and well worth it.

[@Chereese0808]

Is that mouse a "Chuck E. Cheese" who's seen better days? #BernerBrotherAuctions sells Steif stuffed animals at their auctions for excellent prices. 😉

[@normagrimstad8869]

Why would you want radioactive plates? Isn’t it dangerous? I’m sure my grandmother had uranium glass and I’m not thrilled about it.

[@umrmech84]

The EPA says that intact and good condition Fiesta Ware is safe to eat off. That said, they advise NOT using the red stuff in case it chips so that you don't ingest it.

[@aubadthe2750]

The boston terriers are reproduction. It's easy to tell the difference. In the early 1900s, iron work was done with great respect for their craft. Hence, it is hard to find seams and better paint work.

[@WesDerry-d8d]

The red fiesta you bought is not vintage. Fiesta was reintroduced in early 80’s . Most of what you were looking at falls into that category. Benn collecting Fiesta for over 30 years. It takes a trained eye to tell the difference.

[@fleabittenadventures]

All my research says that fiestaware hasn't been radioactive since 1972. Everything I bought was radioactive.

[@Godfatherofthefleamarket]

Why don't you show us other markets like round top texas

[@ralphflori4129]

finast was First National

[@southernvtgrown]

✌🏻💚✌🏻💚🙏🏻

[@ArmchairRamb0]

That's a Boston Terrier.

[@fartsackjack7081]

HILLBILLY JIM

[@Flowmaster925]

at some point, owning to many of those radioactive plates cant be good for you.

[@aubadthe2750]

Sir please don't say second hand smoke gave you lung cancer later. It's probably the plate you just bought. As you will hold up by your chest like you did on purchase and examination. You will do this every time you handle the plate.

[@Godfatherofthefleamarket]

Of course you didnt it was more then a dollar

[@Godfatherofthefleamarket]

It wasn't a one dollar so you will not buy it

[@gotchanow8311]

So far I've seen nothing of actual value... everything has been Double if not triple the price...

[@umrmech84]

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

[@gotchanow8311]

@@umrmech84 lmao that's not how it works if its triple the price... that's called price gouging lmao

[@umrmech84]

@@gotchanow8311 Price gouging can only exist (and some would disagree that it ever does) if it's a necessity. You can't "gouge" on fleamarket junk.

[@christinehutchins123]

The thing is if you collect something and you want it bad enough....

[@gotchanow8311]

@@christinehutchins123 Lmao if you can't have self control and wanna pay 3x the market price by all means that's a you thing