Their design hasn't really changed in fifty years and they don't expire. Only a crazy person would buy them new!
I probably would have purchased the entire collection ("Eljit," "Tornado," "Majestic," "Tiger Brand"—awesome!) if my friend hadn't been there to advise me otherwise. (We went to look at bicycling caps instead.)
Solid-wood dresser covered in golden cloth featuring Mt. Fuji!! Too heavy for me to attempt and Greg wasn't having it (exhausted from moving dirt around on Randall's Island), so I didn't investigate further. It really seemed like a nice old thing though.
I decided I didn't need this oil painting:
Due to it is hideous.
I really liked this super-old photograph (who are those guys?) but the glass was broken, so I decided to leave it.
The kindliest, most sweet-faced disembodied one-dollar goat head in existence. Right now he is perched on top of my computer monitor, gazing at me with loving kindness.
Just waiting for the moment when I need to MEASURE SOMETHING.