a battered and charmless teapot stood flanked by a pair of gorgeous poupies , and she could not even begin to guess what those beautiful french dollies with their rouged cheeks and gartered gams might be worth there was a selection of baseball and tobacco cards , a fan of pulp magazines from the thirties ( weird tales , astounding tales , thrilling wonder stories ) , a table-radio from the fifties which was that disgusting shade of pale pink which the people of that time had seemed to approve of when it came to appliances , if not to politics most-although not all-of the items had small plaques standing in front of them : tri-crystal geode , arizona , read one custom socket-wrench kit , read another .