The Blue Merle Consignment Store

A whole
lot
of
stuff
The Blue Merle Consignment Store is a cool, small and cramped place just packed with all kinds of odd, weird and occasional useful stuff. The type of place where the inventory changes every time you go there.
I noticed some interesting music instrumentals the last time I was there. Along with the usual guitars was a dumbek drum and a really cool old Irish ten string cittern. Not the type of instruments you usually run into at a consignment store.
As is typical with this kind of place the prices vary a lot on the stuff, ranging from ridiculously inexpensive to far more than you thought. Of course that has to do with the person bringing in the item.
The owner is a really friendly and nice guy who is very easy to talk to and willing to consider offers that he will rely to the owner of the item. He definitely knows a whole lot about some very obscure and unusual subjects but I guess that goes with the business.
A fascinating store that seems to attract unusual items for consignment. A cool place to look at, buy or sell just about any bizarre thing you can think of.

Located in this funky little shopping plaza across from Work out world and Ocean State Joblot. I must have driven past this place a dozen times or more without noticing it. At first I thought it was an out of business furniture refinishers’. Then I thought maybe it was a bird-​house emporium. Once I realized that it was a consignment store/​second hand shop, and it was open, I just HAD to stop in. Glad I did… Clocks, lamps, knives, corn cob pipes, toys, DVDs, nick-​nacks, ships in a bottle, a CB radio, train set, Christmas decorations, some books, a lighter in the form of a tiny pistol, nautical bric-​à-​brac, jewelry and all manner of assorted baubles — in a word, perfect! The fellow who runs the place (Blue Merle?) seems like a friendly sort. We bought a set of 1970’s walkie talkies [working!] for 8 bucks that my wife is currently enjoying to the fullest by listening to people’s conversations on Citizen’s Band 14, the common use Channel — a laugh a minute and worth every cent!