Top Ten Best Selling Vintage Items

 

1. Vintage Lamps! Nearly every type of lamp can be a best seller including floor lamps, table lamps, or hanging chain lamps. 1970s oil rain lamps, aka Goddess Lamps, can fetch as much as $500 on eBay! A gorgeous Art Deco table lamp easily sells for $400. Fenton "Gone with the Wind" lamps however, are the holy grail.

Vintage wicker baskets are a staple in any bohemian themed setting.

2. Wicker Baskets! Boho Hippie decor is on trend right now and baskets of any size, shape, or color, are a staple in this style. Actually pretty much anything wicker could be a bestseller in any vintage shop!

3. Art Glass Figurines & Paperweights! The tiny trinkets made by Murano Glass, Fenton Glass, or Fire and Light Glassware, are considered to be priceless treasures to the right collector. A simple recycled glass heart paperweight made by Fire and Light Glassware has a not-so-simple price tag of $90!

Fostoria 1986 Yellow "Virginia" iced tea goblets

4. Vintage Glassware Goblets! Many styles of vintage glassware are highly collectible and coveted by today's shoppers. I sold a set of eight (8) Fostoria 1986 yellow glass water goblets in the popular "Virginia" pattern for $140!

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5. Vintage Sewing Baskets! These vintage household items are especially valuable if they have pull-out accordion shelving, or are still stuffed with vintage sewing odds and ends.

6. Vintage glass ashtrays, table lighters, cigarette holders, or smoking sets (which generally include all three) are extremely desirable to many collectors.

7. Costume jewelry! Sparkly rhinestone brooches, crystal aurora borealis chokers, clip-on earrings, or earrings with screw backs. Be on the lookout for Bakelite jewelry or other items and items made from other popular vintage synthetic materials, such as Lucite.

8. Decade Trends/Fads-- Hopefully you never threw out those Garbage Pail Kids trading cards from the 80's or your beloved Russ Troll dolls from the 90s because they can bring a nice payday your way today. In 1980, fiber optic flower display lamps with a wind-up music box were all the rage and according to eBay price comparisons, they're still going strong, selling for close to $80-$90 each in good working condition!

This is an antique glass blob-top soda bottle with Hutchinson stopper, circa the 1800s.

9. Antique Glass Bottles can be some of the most valuable items being sold in vintage stores. Dating these artifacts can be confusing but is well worth the effort since some bottles can be worth as much as $6000! For help identifying a glass bottle refer to the post Antique Glass Bottles in our blog

10. Seasonal home decor! Vintage Halloween or Christmas decor items have surprisingly high values and will almost sell themselves with a good photo and accurate descriptions.