What I sold! Retro Online Sales - Reselling Vlog

Vintage toys, books games, and more... Let's take a look at what sold!

Just a few retro/vintage pop-culture items to share with you today that sold. As fun as it is to collect these toys, books, and games it's also fun to revisit things I forgot about as I resell them online.

And at the end, I show my daily webcomic diary.

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The art of Mel Crawford from Rootie Kazootie Baseball Star Vintage Illustrated Book from 1954

A look at the artwork of Illustrator Mel Crawford from the 1954 book Rootie Kazootie Baseball Star

When I'm out looking for vintage illustrated books to add to my collection there are certain artists whose artwork I love! And one of them is Mel Crawford.

Here is an issue I found of a book he did for Golden Books from 1954 for the character Rootie Kazootie. Rootie Kazootie was a 1950s children's television show The Rootie Kazootie Club and featured human actors along with hand puppets.

(Related website category: Illustration)

Mel Crawford was a Canadian-American children's book illustrator and comics artist. He drew horror and fantasy comics for Western Publishing but is best known for adapting various child-oriented media into beautiful children's books.

Mel Crawford worked as an artist for various different film and TV companies and made books starring some of the most popular fictional characters of the 20th century, from Disney and Hanna-Barbera to Jim Henson Productions.

Mel Crawford worked as an animator at Disney in the 1950s but felt that illustrating children's books and record covers suited him better.

I really just love his style of artwork.

And of course the classic version of the back cover for Golden Books during this time period.

Check out the illustrated books for sale in my store here

Read Next: Sherlock Hemlock & Great Twiddlebug Mystery Retro Book Illustration Artwork Sesame Street from 1972

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What I got! Looking for retro toys and games out of state trip

I take a trip out of state looking for some vintage/retro toys in this video

Hitting estate sales looking for vintage/retro toys games and books to collect. One is local and one of them is in the next state. Check out some of the things we ended up finding on this thrifting hunt!

I ended up getting a great collection of games, toys and of course my favorite... vintage illustrated children's books!

What sold today: Person wanted book shipped "handle with care", cracked me up!

I look at some of the vintage and retro items I sold online in this video.

In the video, I go through my collection of vintage items to grab some of the vintage/retro things that I need to pack up and ship to people.

Some of the items in the video.

Vintage Alfred Hitchcock book the Haunted Houseful

Vintage Peanuts comic picture maker

Vintage Playskool farm set cow toys

Vintage illustrated book Little Boy Blues Horn

Vintage Sweet Valley High Book Secrets

Vintage Illustrated Frame Tray Puzzle

Vintage illustrated book Disney's Goofy's Gags

Vintage Holly Hobbie Doll

Penny Brite fashion doll

Vintage illustrated rooster print

Vintage book cartoon drawing for beginners

See more about the items in the video at the top of this post!

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This cost me $300? Thrifting Day Trip - Tom Ray's Day Vlog

My weekend adventure looking for vintage and pop-culture stuff to collect.

On the weekends I go to estate sales to find vintage and retro things to sell online. 

Sometimes I end up traveling to other towns to do this. 

This time I spend over $200 bucks on a haul before even leaving town. Then I travel an hour and a half away and find some of the coolest vintage toys, illustrated books and games for my collection. 

I also tell some stories about a guy that got upset that I took all the illustrated children's books.

(Related post: No good estate sales today. So.. Improvising - Tom Ray's Day)

From the video

Started out at a sale in a house out in the suburbs.

I did not expect to clean out a whole closet full of books.

Still needed to travel to the place we were actually planning to go to in the first place that was in a town we couldn't remember the name of an hour and a half away. 

An hour and a half later...

The place only opens like one weekend a month. It used to be a restaurant and bar and has a huge skylight.

I was surrounded by even more vintage toys and illustrated books!

Then drove back home to take a look at all the stuff that I picked up. Watch the video and see me get really excited about spending $300 bucks!

See the whole day in the video at the top of this post!

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Sherlock Hemlock & Great Twiddlebug Mystery Retro Book Illustration Artwork Sesame Street from 1972

Possibly one of my favorite sets of book illustrations and the artist's name isn't even listed, all just to keep up with the gag of the story! Just says it was told by the muppet Betty Lou from the story.

Raggedy Ann's secret vintage book illustration

On June 17, 1915, shortly after submitting his patent application for the doll's design, Johnny Gruelle who created the doll applied for a registered trademark for the Raggedy Ann name, which he created by combining words from two of James Whitcomb Riley poems, "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphant Annie".

Vintage Illustrated Cookie Monster Book Artwork by Joe Mathieu from 1977

I love vintage illustration artwork and some of the best comes from these drawings in old children's books.

Here is a set of artwork from the Sesame Street story Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree.

If you would like to see more of the vintage illustrated book artwork I have, you can check out the collection for sale in my eBay Store here! 

The artwork in this book was illustrated by Joe Mathieu who actually did many books and drawings for Sesame Street.

The story in this book starts out with a witch in the forest who has a talking tree that grows cookies.

Of course, as you guessed from the title Cookie Monster finds the tree.

I really do dig the pencil outline style of this artwork.

And check out the drawing of the witch in the background above.

The action poses drawn in these illustrations are also what really appeals to me in this artwork.

Some of the other Sesame Street characters show up in the book drawings like The Count, Bert, Prairie, Grover, and Oscar the Grouch.

Then don't forget the backs of these vintage illustrated children's books that all of us know by heart!

If you would like to see more of the vintage illustrated book artwork I have, you can check out the collection for sale in my eBay Store here! 

You should totally pin this thing!