Holiday items, unique gifts and electronics. OR Post Black Weekend Christmas Sale!

We are located at 1012 S. Gilbert Ct (corner of Kirkwood Ave and Gilbert Ct.)

Our next sale dates are:

Sat. Dec. 21, 2024  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sun. Dec. 22, 2024 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Sat. Jan. 4, 2025  9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sun. Jan. 5, 2025 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

We will always entertain offers. Items WITHOUT a Pink Dot are 1/2 off the marked price. Pink dots are for newer items in.

We have been removing pink dots while PUTTING NEW ITEMS OUT!

New in an A1311 Apple computer! It has been reset to factory default!

New in a Nintendo WII RVL 001 from 2006! With 2 steering wheels for MarioKart, plus 4 controllers, silicone covers and 4 “games” MarioKart, Wii sports, Just dance 2 and Monopoly!

Brand new in from Dave Caplan and English River Antiques! NEW COMIC BOOKS including Marvel and DC!

New jewelry has come in as well as some unique items. We have a beautiful painted spelter and cast Iron reverse painting lamp from the early 20^th century!

Many new Christmas items!

A counter top water cooler with 2-5 gallon jugs. Many new electrified oil lamps. Cookbooks and kitchen items for the holidays!

A glass and metal standing desk!

We have new in a beautiful burled wood table with storage and 2 light wood ikea 6 drawer dressers.

We also have new vintage Hot Wheels cars!

New in we have a smaller 2 piece corner curio, 2 beautiful carved and upholstered armchairs, 2 beautifully carved and upholstered side chairs.

We have added even more new DVDs, CDs, VHS and Vinyl Albums as well as  Victrola albums.

We have a beautiful antique carved clock that is just gorgeous.

We even have more CD players, DVD players,  vintage turntable & VHS players!

We have new artwork in, and all artwork is 1/2 off. These include original pieces, watercolors, oil paintings, photography, prints, lithographs, etchings, dichtypes, series, gouache, and multimedia pieces.  Some names available are Kae Taylor, Warren Paris, Kathy Glasknap, Teerlink, Sarah Hatch, Julie Crabtree, Baer, Veronica Potter, P. Buckley Moss, Jane Maybe, Agnes St. Liger, John Ruthven, Harold Mason, Shari Davis, Franz Weiss, Max Parish and a fabulous piece entitled "Five Ponies" from Dwell.  More to be added soon!  We have a whole room dedicated to our art pieces that overflow into the entire store. 

A Mission-style tv armoire with retractable doors that has a rod installed but can be converted back very easily.

Nice dressers one is a beautiful midcentury blonde dresser as well as a 1950’s Formica and chrome slim desk, a small Formica rectangle table, a 1950’s wood and mirror shadow box frame.  A white wicker trunk, 4 vintage folding chairs.. We have several different  red wing crocks, A beautiful upholstered side chair. All this plus a beautiful Ethan Allen comfortable chair. A painted green armoire that is set up for tv’s, more pieces of green uranium glass including dinnerware and Rose Fiesta ware!  We have a matching Mission bench and chair with green upholstery, Small wood church pew perfect for entry space, small painted distressed secretary and an RC Airplane, a sewing dress form.

The photos and the hawkeye items from Randy Larson’s estate are now half off.  In these items we have art made by Shari Davis. We have Prime Time League and Game Time League shirts and jerseys with years ranging from 1994 to 2018 some with players' names on the back. We have several golf clubs and bags, one bag is a Hawkeye bag with Randy’s name also embroidered on it. We also have a tv stand for a large screen tv, 1 blonde credenza, and a metal and glass one that could be disassembled very easy for moving. We have newer in Hawkeye items from another local collector that are not half off  yet but still unique.

Jewelry is 50% off  and 50% off all Art!

We have several items that need to find a new home so please come in and make us an offer! Items like a glass and metal coffee table with a matching side table, 2 Stiffel lamps, an Edison disc phonograph model C150 with an oak case dating around 1910, A WORKING Victor Talking Machine VV XI "Victrola the Eleventh” 813534 dating to 1920 in a mahogany case. An antique radio cabinet without radio, a beautiful antique buffet, a white wicker trunk as well as an antique trunk.

We have several desks including a vintage 6 drawer desk that has hidden typewriter storage that would also work for a laptop computer!

Dining room tables of all sizes and shapes, a wide variety of coffee tables and end tables. Beautiful shelving units, table and floor lamps, a piano stool, quilt racks. 2 room screens, vintage magazine racks. A variety of rugs. Side chairs, craft chairs. A beautiful antique mahogany veneered buffet with Bakelite handles, an antique cast iron and wood wall shelf. A great club chair. We have a very comfortable La-z-boy love seat! We have 3 china cabinets small dressers and desks… Mahogany Marshall Fields china cabinet, an antique unique 2 sided china cabinet, a large walnut bankers cabinet with doors (doors are not currently on but they are behind).

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MAKE REASONABLE OFFERS ON ANYTHING!

A beautiful and small humpback vintage trunk in good shape.  We have several folding bakers racks in many sizes!

Books and many new in vintage games:  New vintage cookbooks of all types, postcards, Glass horse bookends onyx unicorn bookends. There are various vintage comic books, National Geographic magazines. 

We have 2 different stereo sound systems, one with a docking station.

Buy 5 pieces of 1 yd cuts, 3 yd cuts and 3 yd bundles.

fabric get one free!

Dish towels, pillow case kits and thread.

We have found a box of Christmas panels and sew on labels!

All these will be out and 1/2 off the price marked!!!

CHRISTMAS FABRIC ONLY has been discounted farther and still buy 5 and get one free!

1 yd cuts $2

3 yd cuts $8

3 yd bundles $8

Scrap bags of new quilting fabric 1/2 off!

Non Christmas fabric is now DISCOUNTED!

1 yd cuts $3

3 yd cuts $10

3 yd bundles $10

With all fabric, BUY 6 OR MORE AND GET A DEEPER DISCOUNT!

All vintage fabric is 50% off!

Wood brief cases, some tribal art. A vintage 1968 Barbie family house fold out, GI Joe Sentry case from Ideal.

Continuing All Jewelry is 50% off. Antique to Vintage to Contemporary jewelry! So many nice rings from brands as Peora, Silpada, MEDA which specialized in midline fine pieces , Lia Sophia, etc...many vermeil, 18k gold over sterling silver with precious and semi precious stones. Fabulous earrings, bracelets and necklaces. We still have a great selection of vintage costume jewelry and statement pieces from known designers. There are also some nice stainless steel jewelry as well. We have also received a lot of precious and semi precious loose stones, Coins.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO MAKE REASONABLE OFFERS ON ANYTHING!

If you need kitchen items, we may have it. An in line toaster, programmable coffee pot, Several sizes of wine glasses. Vintage Tupperware, toaster oven, electric counter top grills, bakeware, corning, Pyrex, mid-century Dirilyte pieces, coffee grinder, George Foreman Grills, newer cookware appliances,  Fenton Silvercrest tidbit, stoneware set that can go in the microwave and dishwasher, loaf pans and glass pie pans. There are several glass canister jars one with Petroglyphs. Golf clubs, golf bags and balls, golf club covers, gardening tools!

A lightweight vintage plug in pool table light, 3-foot bench, Music box scrolls,

We have some truly unique local U of I historical pieces. An Antique sculpture stand from the home of James Lechay most likely from his friend and fellow teacher Humbert Albrizio. He came to teach at Iowa in 1945 at the suggestion of his friend Philip Guston. There he joined a group assembled by art department chairman Lester Longman. The group included Mauricio Lasansky, Humbert Albrizio, Carl Fracassini, and Byron Burford, among others. Lechay remained on the art faculty till 1975. We also have an antique diaper pail that Lechay used for used oil painting cloths. Framed art photographs from local known artist Warren Paris.

Email us to see if we have something your looking for at ajaestateserv@gmail.com

There is so much to see that I know I can’t list it all…