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What can you get when then the Flea bug bites?

By Ben Muessig
The Brooklyn Paper

If one man’s trash is really another man’s treasure, then Brooklyn’s flea markets are the best places to find your fortune. In our search, we found some cool items (an Egyptian-styled top from the 1930s, $275 at Artists and Fleas in Williamsburg), nifty decorations (how about some toy ships in toy bottles — $1 each at the PS 321 flea market?), and the downright weird (like a pair of handball gloves, still in their package, $5 at PS 321!). Here are a few treasures:

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Flip for it
Packs of vintage Michael Jackson, Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles and Alf trading cards are sold by Kings County Salvage at the Brooklyn Flea (three packs for $5).

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Take Eames
These Eames chairs from the 1970s are $75 a piece at Artists and Fleas in Williamsburg.

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Don’t say nay
Lightly worn leather and horsehair boots, size 7-1/2 were just $75 at the Miss June D booth at the Brooklyn Flea.

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Does Elton know?
These vintage Pucci sunglasses — right out of the Captain Fantastic era, were $150 at the Selima Optique booth at the Brooklyn Flea.

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Crate expectations
Coca Cola boxes from the 1930s, salvaged from a barn, are $40 each at Kings County Salvage at the Brooklyn Flea.

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