Items shown represent a small selection of current inventory.
Assorted Retro Wood Desks
The old-school wooden desks are always popular with folks at the surplus warehouse, but we’re not seeing as many as we once did. So it’s unusual that we receive several all at once as we have recently. Choose from a variety of shades—all in nice shape and looking retro-swanky.
Couch: The Whoa-Nelly
SOLD!
Bizarrely, this piece of, well we’ll call it furniture, looks as though it has never been used … as if it never left Conway Twitty’s basement. It’s certainly a conversation piece; I’m just not sure I want to have that conversation.
A single back piece of the frame appears to be split in the center, causing the back to lean back farther when you sit in it, a simple repair, OR: handle it the hillbilly way & back this baby up against a wall, problem solved!
Loveseat Like Whoa
SOLD-a-roony!
I tried staring at this until I went cross-eyed thinking it might turn out to be one of those Magic Eye puzzles, like maybe I’d see a 3-D Walton’s Mountain or something. Turns out the answer is no. And now I’m not so sure you should stare directly at this piece of furniture either, but you have to admit—it’s tough to look away.
Loveseat/ Coffee Table Combo
SOLD!
This blue-vinyl love seat will always have a coffee table nearby—they’re conjoined. This is excellent if you always want to know where your coffee table is. This is less excellent if you want to move the coffee table … because your love seat is coming along, too. Still, they do have a certain je ne sais quoi, no?
Matching Grey Tables
As the weather gets warmer we tend to receive more surplus furniture and so we must be crafty about how we arrange items in the warehouse, especially when we receive large quantities of the same things. So you’ll have to take my word for it when I say this photo actually shows all 25 of these matching grey tables that we have managed to Jenga together. One benefit to you of our having so many pieces is that we price such items very low to ensure they move out the door!
These desks each have slide-out center tray-drawers.
Old Wood Stool
SOLD!
Every once in a while we get old wooden furniture that looks so great displaying its age and years of use that there’s really nothing you need to do to it to make it look better, and this stool is a prime example. The metal around each of its leg bottoms is curious, but we kind of like it, so stop screaming “Polio! Polio!”
Raised Oak Loft Bed Frames + Mattress
PRICE FURTHER REDUCED AS OF 3/13!
We have a number of oak raised platform beds + their mattresses, all from the Mercer Hall demolition project. [Pictured with oak 3-drawer dresser cabinet, also available.] NOTE: Orange tags for bed sets are available from Surplus staff and/ or the cashier’s desk. A complete bed will have two end pieces, three rails, three pieces of cut plywood, and a mattress.
Sweet Deal: Loft bed, pedestal, and desk = $90.00!
Round Table
SOLD!
Sir Gawain, this is Marge in Receiving. The Green Knight is running late from his 2:00 LEAN team meeting and wanted me to let you know he’ll meet you at that charming little round table in the break room to help you figure out your Balanced Scorecard metrics in about ten minutes. Can I get you some mead while you wait?
The Nice Bench
I suppose this 3-cushion bench marks the kinder, gentler cousin opposite the gargantuan, darkness-of-Hades bench we also received this week. This bench is in great shape and appears to be free of blemishes. Plus, it’s upholstered in what looks to have been a 90s PC screensaver pattern! Score!
Trio of Retro Wood Chairs
SOLD!
We’ve been lucky lately to see a few of these nice old wood chairs each week, and we suddenly find ourselves with three! And while such well-made, super-sturdy chairs were once literally everywhere, they’re becoming harder and harder to find. Snap these up before somebody else does!
Weird Science Desk
SOLD! When I heard we had a Carl Zeiss desk coming in I thought somebody was crazy. Well, we did some research and were able to learn that, yes, Zeiss did offer desk units such as this (weird!), although we’re still not sure just how this desk was used if it was used for Zeiss microscopes. While the desk is missing one drawer (a simple item to replace), the structure of the desk is solid. The funky gadgets, whatever they may be for, mainly sit there looking awesome, which can only increase your dorko-hip cred anyway.
Wood Card Catalog
SOLD!
Online timed auction for this item is now LIVE! CLICK HERE to go to the auction page. Auction ends at 7pm Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 24th, 2012. Good luck & happy bidding!
Consider this a teaser—we’ve got this amazing, old, wood card catalog on display in the warehouse, and we’ll be putting it up for bids in an online, timed auction in the coming weeks. It should take us that long to explain to Kids Today what these things were used for while we enjoy their eyes bugging out (that is, if they can look up from their Wonderphones long enough).
Wood-That-Looks-Plastic Chairs
So at first, we thought these two chairs looked like unusual injection-molded resin chairs made to look like wood-grain, but it turns out they’re both actual wood. We’ve honestly never seen anything like them. There are no maker’s marks on them beyond stamping to indicate they were made in Germany.
















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