What came in today? Live unboxing of antiques!

just another day at the store, I get some treasures in and we do an unboxing together.
also... who keeps ringing that phone? :) haha!

[@barbaralong1642]

Always interesting to see what's in the boxes. Reminds me of when I was a kid looking thru boxes in my grand parents attic and finding treasures

[@candicel3224]

I collect vintage and antique Santa Claus. You would be surprised at how careful prior generations were with these decorations. Unlike today, they made things last and last by careful handling and packing. I'm so grateful they did, I love those old elves.

[@joycewilliams967]

I’m glad to hear your Mom isn’t having a health issue. That’s a huge relief! Bless you for helping her in her time of need. Cool unboxing video! I love to watch those! You find the neatest stuff!!

[@aksez2u]

When you mentioned our responsibility as human beings to help others it reminded me to volunteer for our local Salvation Army GIFT event (providing food and toys for families in need). I put the video on hold, signed up for 2 shifts and then came back to the video. Thanks for inspiring us to be the best humans we can be!

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

I love that your shop is so busy! You should put a camera up and just do a time lapse of the foot traffic throughout the entire day. I don't think I've ever been in an antique store that had more than two people in it besides me.

[@jeannieferdinande5805]

I have one of those Japanese dolls with wigs that my uncle brought me when he was I the Army, I have always enjoyed it and still have it some 60+ years later. This is the first time I have seen another one, glad you shared. Love your channel❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️

[@debreyes2130]

My Dad had a box of "novelty" items, nothing too bad. Snake in a can Lady's leg bottle opener, other stuff. We had it at our lake house. It was always so fun to go through that box. The box with the Venus shakers made me think of that. Now I wish I had all those things

[@Diwondermum]

People l know you are all concerned for Alex mum but please remember that Alex and his family have a private life too. I too become concerned however realise if he wants us to know he will tell us! Prayers for all the Archbold family. Big hugs too!!

[@micheleramia7359]

What’s the name of the auction house again please?

[@khamilton7537]

That angel is from the 1930's. I have the one my father had throughout his childhood. It's great to see the original box!

[@mlfeathers7527]

I love to watch you! I live in Texas and as you know, we are going through some tough times here in the states. You, your family and your contractors are so knowledgeable, kind and hardworking, it’s just a joy to watch you. It takes me away from our national and my personal stress. Thank you. I always know what to expect and it actually makes my quality of life better. God bless you and yours. And, happy birthday (yesterday or today - not sure which).

[@LessThanThree76]

Happy to hear that mom is great healthwise. Still hope you’ll get a good amount of money from the auction towards whatever struggles she’s going through. ❤️

[@jovandertuig1042]

Whenever you say “old” followed by “the 1980s” it makes me cringe 😬. To me that isn’t that long ago but IT IS! My grandson reminds me that it’s from the nineteen hundreds! Guess I’ll go finish washing my clothes on a washboard down at the river while I churn the butter for the bread I just took out of the fire. 🙄😂🤣

[@jessicastreet2922]

That is hilarious. My 8 year old daughter said that to me today. That's because you're from the 1900s mom. Oh my goodness!!

[@sand3882]

But we can say we've lived in 2 different centuries!

[@40intrek]

I always say it was so much easier back then even though it wasn't. But then it was better imop

[@Bill23799]

Haha Jo I feel the same. Just the same at 62 we did have milk delivered to the front door in glass bottles they put in those Galvanized metal boxes. We also made downhill Go Carts using " Old " wooden Milk Crates to make the seats. Yes.....I am older than dirt.

[@judibess6173]

@@Bill23799 haha, I'm older than dirt! Our milk came up from the barn every nite in a tin jug!

[@jaywalkersunite]

The SS Montrose has an interesting history. Built in 1920, commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1939 as an armed merchant cruiser, and torpedoed and sunk a year later by the German U-99.

[@ShadeyLadey]

That Japanese doll is amazing. As a collector of Japanese items id love to have that 😍

[@janetchun4476]

I actually have that! It was a Christmas gift to me in 1962.

[@barb-jm7990]

@@janetchun4476 I also got one for a gift for Christmas in the 1960's, but mine had only 3-4 wigs.

[@Justthollyy]

If you are seriously interested in it, maybe try and get and contact with them. They might put it up on eBay. Alex did say if you see anything in the store that you are interested it, let them know and you could have a chance to buy it.

[@flossblueberry1262]

I'm sure I had something similiar in the 1970s when I was a kid. As soon as I saw that it brought back memories.

[@irmazurita5451]

Glad to see your store has a lot of business awesome

[@robertjones-zy7ym]

back in 1981 my first yr of high school we had a bottle bob . the guy would peddle up and look for cans and bottles at the school in the trash cans . because of his shabby appearance we thought he was down on his luck every body gave he cans . thing is the old man was multi millionaire . had to ride the bike for health reasons . it was a great write up in the local paper

[@LisaNH934]

I love that Japanese doll..so sweet and in lovely condition ☺

[@buckeye43302]

Prayers your auction gos well and great to see your store is doing well☺️

[@matthewdavey6064]

A nice little insight into Alex the storekeep. Really enjoyed this, the joys of live streaming!

[@theresatrahan7247]

Happy Birthday 🎊🎁🎂 Alex hope you had a wonderful day today.

[@Bill23799]

Does the Japanese Doll Wig set say " Made in Occupied Japan " on the back. After WW II Japan's industries were completely destroyed. Many of the people survived creating " Cottage " industries and made small items for export in their homes often with help of all their family and later the help of the village. I have a neat Camping Spirit Stove made there just after the war and it says " Made In Occupied Japan " on the bottom. If you are Japanese and you see something that says this on the bottom you should not feel embarrassed. You should feel proud of your grandparents and great grandparents for picking themselves up after tragedy to rebuild their lives.

[@pegsbarton6353]

With regard to the little painting of the barque, I know value-wise the original frame adds money but if it was cleaned, remounted with a new frame AND mount it would improve it a lot. It's a pretty enough painting and could be upgraded.

[@catfish7646]

Thanks for your channel. I just recently found you and your lovely family re your potters series. I thought it was terrific. I also love the idea of your shop and what you have on offer. 👍👍👍😺🐠

[@debfox2049]

Happy Birthday Alex 🎂 ...have an amazing day u deserve it . Love from Pa.

[@DrValerie800]

Hey Alex; Happy belated Birthday! I hope you had plenty of fun and lottsa lovin' vibes from everyone.

[@johnangeles7325]

My ideal house interior design full of rare and vintage memorabilia

[@curtainsup9]

love your unboxings! loved the ship painting, the doll, the camera, the handkerchiefs, your old phone!

[@robsgirl7778]

It's exciting to see the store so busy

[@mackeymintle66]

I’ve never wanted to collect kerchiefs...until now. Instant collection! Good find.

[@veronicapace7198]

Love that you care about your Mom... Ask Santa for hiking boots!

[@treasurehunter183hunter8]

I have a collection of art work of Water colors, oil paintings,etchings,engravings,lots of metal work,vintage jewelry,books and textiles oh yes! And wind up watches (seiko,Hamilton and ya da ya da... as you would say😊...i also enjoy watching you videos.....Thank you.

[@barb-jm7990]

I got a Japanese doll with wigs like that as a gift when I was a child. Mine remained in the box in good shape, too, because I was into Barbie not Japanese dolls! I sold mine on eBay years ago.

[@lyn2256]

Happy Birthday, Alex!

[@tootall5559]

Web says: SS Montrose was a transatlantic ocean liner for Elder, Dempster & Company and the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She was the vessel on which Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel Le Neve, fled England after Crippen's wife was murdered. Montrose was involved in a sinister affair in 1910. American physician Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel Le Neve had fled England after the circumstances around his wife's death were questioned. After a body was found in the basement of Crippen's north London residence, Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Walter Dew sought the couple for murder charges.[2] One theory had the couple sailing from Dover on SS Kroonland, but when inspected in New York on arrival, Crippen and Le Neve were not to be found.[3] The fleeing couple had instead sailed on the Montrose from Antwerp on 20 July. Crippen, identified on Montrose after the vessel received a description of the pair via a wireless dispatch, was arrested, convicted of his wife's murder, and hanged. La Neve was acquitted.[2] The following year, Montrose was rebuilt a final time, this time to 7,207 GT. At the start of the First World War Montrose and her near-sister Montreal were docked at Antwerp as the German army was advancing on the city. The Montrose was seaworthy, but without coal, while the Montreal had coal, but inoperable engines. Captain H. G. Kendall, who had been in command of the Montrose in 1910 but had ceased working as a ship's master following his involvement in the Empress of Ireland sinking, was working in the port as the CPR's marine superintendent. He arranged for coal to be transferred from the Montreal, filled both vessels with Belgian refugees and used the Montrose to tow the Montreal to England On 28 October 1914, Montrose was sold to the Admiralty for use as a blockship at Dover.[1] Breaking loose from her moorings during a gale, the liner drifted out and was wrecked on the Goodwin Sands on 20 December 1914.

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

Dear toot tall. Thanks a lot for these very interesting informations. I really hope that Mr. Archbold will appreciate this also. Best regards luck and health.

[@lizbrown7232]

Eric Larson wrote a book about the case, "Thunderstruck".

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

Dear@@lizbrown7232 Thanks for the information! Is it a good book? Have you read it? I really would like to hear from you. Thanks in advance. Best regards luck and health.

[@lizbrown7232]

@@Chr.U.Cas2216 yes it is. Combines the Crippen story with Marconi's invention of the telegraph.

[@Chr.U.Cas2216]

@@lizbrown7232 Thanks for answering. Sounds really good and exciting/thrilling (hope that it's available in German too). Sincerely yours.

[@danny1959]

Edith Hamilton was one of the foremost authorities on mythology, and that book was reprinted many times over.

[@seaneendelong8065]

Indeed- and the dust jacket was so nice I thought it WAS a reprint from like the 90s and well cared for. I was stunned when it showed a 1942 print date!

[@bobjoncas2814]

.good vid. some great treasure finds.

[@rdhudon7469]

When it comes to live feeds I'm usually a day late and a dollar short.

[@jesusbeloved3953]

Gee, Alex! With all the stuff I’ve watched you do over the year or so I’ve been watching; I forgot you ran the store, too! 😅

[@robynw6307]

Happy Birthday Alex! I know it's early, but it's the 5th here in Australia. Have a great day.

[@CuriosityIncorporated]

tomorrow is the big day ;)

[@greengeekgirl]

Fellow pen collector! I’m not actually a collector in a valuable pen collection sense, but I have a lot of fountain pens.

[@vinyl1Earthlink]

I see lots of paintings like that at local auctions. They're nice decorative pieces, but the actual values are quite low, as Alex probably knows. They once had a local online auction of just not-so-great art, and most of the pieces went for less than $20.

[@sweetbriarcottage]

vinyl1Earthlink One nice thing about that painting, I thought, was that it was narrow & vertical. It would be perfect for vintage art wall collage.

[@susanrybak7192]

my mom had some hankies that my father got for her when he was in the Navy during WW11

[@sparkleflair]

LOL! I had the video replay paused right at the Edith Hamilton "Mythology" book, and my husband walked past and said, "Oh, an Edith Hamilton book! That was the book I had (in paperback form) in high school!" Hahaha!

[@TheCalicoalicat]

"Mythology" was required reading in High school in my day ;)

[@raggedyann4372]

It’s finally cold here in the Midwest, enjoying my purple “Pickle Rick” sweat shirt. It’s so comfy and warm ❤️You are getting lots of advertising! Love your channel🦋🌺🌸

[@maddieadams75]

Happy Birthday 🎉🎊🎂🎈🎁 Alex ❤️

[@Bill23799]

Hey Alex, I know it really does not matter but I believe on the back of the Sailboat painting it says " ......at the helm of your little barque " . A Barque is a type of Sailboat. Haha...like I said, not that it really mastters.

[@patrickprior4393]

Awesome again🎸🎸

[@colleent3631]

Love your videos love the chance to help someone, I hope and pray it works out all the way around I WANT THAT JAPANESE DOLL for my grand baby 😊

[@marthapackard3935]

ROTFLOL @ the prank caller!!! That's so vintage!!! lol..... That is one of the many things I miss about the 1980's (prank callers not saying anything when you pick up the phone)!!! lol......... HILARIOUS!!!! :D :)

[@kathleenwilson2199]

Hi alex I love watching your video, your family and friends are great

[@jackysjournals6320]

Love seeing your shop but please invest in a tripod so you can show stuff hands free - so much easier on the eye to watch ☺️

[@AnniePA1960]

Or a chest holder

[@colleenhaithcock216]

I love the boat picture!

[@mozu517]

Glad to hear your mom is OK! 👍

[@cynthiahowe8697]

Wanted to ask if you are having more business at the new store than you had at the old one. Looks great and wish I could come visit but I'm in Texas and can't travel that far away. Love seeing things I remember from when I was young or things my grandparents had.

[@CuriosityIncorporated]

it's been way better :)

[@MD-gz5yw]

Happy Birthday Alex!!

[@bettyratliff3941]

You have some great stuff in your shop. I am in Ga

[@thomasroberts9752]

LOL area code 906 is flagler beach fl...I live in daytona and its 386....I would have liked to know what someone less than 60 miles away from me was calling all the way to Canada to buy hahahaha

[@jlcollins14]

love the cameras!!

[@TravisSteeves]

The box of cloths that the woman collected, look into the “souvenir from France” piece. I have two somewhat similar that my second great uncle sent home during WW1

[@nancysadirondackart50]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, A HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ALEXANDRERRRRR, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOUUUUUUUU

[@AnniePA1960]

AND MANY MOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!!

[@missycat5783]

Hi Alex, looks like a great haul.

[@CrazyCatzMom]

Glad Hans is doing well

[@cajsheen2594]

I think that was barque, Alex, rather than barge. As in "the barque that is bearing my lover to me" from Blow the Wind Southerly, an old folk song. XXX

[@CuriosityIncorporated]

Think you’re right!

[@qazwiz]

OMG, that Mythology by Edith Hamilton was our High School (age 14-18) text. (one of 3 books in a 9 week class) we had Paperbacks with different cover so didn't recognize it at first

[@brendablystone5115]

I really like you're store awesome things yu have so 😎

[@patricianavarrete25]

Happy Birthday!

[@jadedstar7442]

I got my Japanese doll in '61 when our family visited San Francisco, California. A lot of Japanese settled there. I think I only have 3 wigs.

[@clarisd]

I hope you do more like this video today!

[@onetuliptree]

Love Love Love the Japanese doll

[@jadedstar7442]

The hankies would be pretty framed for decor

[@justalitttleteaz6]

i watch and click on ALMOST every ad, knowing it helps with revenue, have to admit when i pee i miss some LOL thanks for the information i love learning even if i never plan on a channel

[@margaretdavies2760]

Hi Alex. Greetings from London, Ont.

[@lindakaye4416]

I have one of those dolls. My Father got it for my mother after the war in Japan.

[@basstrammel1322]

How is it doing?

[@lindakaye4416]

@@basstrammel1322 Pretty ragedy

[@basstrammel1322]

@@lindakaye4416 Give it some love

[@mercurywoodrose]

roitan cigars. the harvard lampoon parody of lord of the rings, Bored of the Rings, had a map that showed not the Riders of Rohan, but the Riders of Roitan. hahaha dad humor at this point.

[@gingerboucher6105]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX!

[@Peggyanns]

My aunt brought the Japanese doll with the wigs from Japan for me in the early 1960s. I broke the doll’s head off the same day she gave it to me.

[@missycat5783]

That doll seemed very familiar to me too. My girlfriend across the street had one in the '50's. Her dad was a merchant marine and brought lots of treasures home from around the world.

[@kandiwolfe1125]

Thanks Alex!!

[@glendahernandez4950]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALEX

[@vilstef6988]

The Montrose has a connection with the first murder case where the perpetrator was caught thanks to wireless!

[@dphotos007]

Looks like you get telemarketing calls too. Usually when no one answer it’s a telemarking company calling.

[@cherolynwolf5913]

That would look good in you house, paint the frame white

[@Pixlanta]

❤️

[@sappysiggy2351]

A day in the life, cool

[@bettyratliff3941]

Hi Alex love your video

[@moonlightdelights]

I see you have replaced your lovely little door bell with a hideous squeeeek squeeeeeek but I suppose it is in keeping with old stuff my 67yrs old knees creak in the same way these days 😭

[@maps5622]

LOL..... Enjoyed the video.... Never hear you swear and honestly had to re listen to the "sun to earth" part several times LOL It would really do what ? Alex ? Just teasing you.... :) Wish we had your snow or no snow at all.... We just received 27.5" from Sunday at 6pm -Tues at noon...

[@bumpy9024]

Hello!! I’m writing this on the 5th YOUR BIRTHDAY!!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳 🎼🎤🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹 Happy Birthday too you 🙏🎤🎹Happy Birthday too youuuu 🎼🎤🎹Happy Birthday Dear Alex🥳🥳🥳Happy Birthday tooooo yoooouuuuu!!🍾🍾🍾💙💙💙

[@josiespreitzer1690]

You watched Arrested Development! I didn’t think I could like you any more, but I do now!

[@DMB56]

Holy Crap, sitting her at MN and your door opening sound was so realistic I thought someone was coming in my house. Go change my diapers ad will finish watching.

[@micheleramia7359]

Ok, I think I have it..Kastner auctions, but......”Marvelous Antiques ...........is the name of the auction, DEC 15?

[@sueparsons6284]

They look like a cool collections of ladies hankies.

[@judiskalet964]

Sue Parsons thanks

[@judibess6173]

Yes, hankies!😃

[@marthapackard3935]

I used to have the Japanese doll with six wigs as a child!!! lol.... Don't have it anymore, unfortunately... So awesome!!! :D :)

[@cjpenning]

I have that same Mythology book. It may be copyrighted back in the 40s but I don't think that printing is that old. I bought mine in the late 80s, early 90s.

[@pattimeckleyfree9484]

I think your right if you want to help your Momma I think it great

[@kates3979]

I would like that Angel tree top

[@CuriosityIncorporated]

It’s for sale :) $49 cdn

[@vilstef6988]

The planet device is called an orrery.

[@BanDanaGramma]

in the handkerchief box, I think I saw some shamrocks! My oldest daughter was born on St Patrick's Day and we're always looking for shamrock items for her. Can they being sold separately or only as a set? The shop is so full of wonderful things. You deserve much success in everything you do. With Love Fom BanDana Gramma

[@CuriosityIncorporated]

I would sell it separately probably just five dollars

[@stacierooney3328]

Do you still have the Salt and pepper shakers the statue shape?

[@deniseboldea1624]

It's only talking to yourself if your answering yourself, otherwise your just thinking aloud. Least that's what I tell everyone. 😁

[@thesam19841]

hey, was glad to hear you got my little present, and you said you were putting it in the next video... but that was a couple videos ago and i haven't seen it... did i miss a video somwwhere along the line?