As mentioned yesterday, Aidan bought a Louis Shabner print from a car boot sale last Sunday. Excuse me while I go to ask him how much he paid for it… It was one whole English pound. I’ve been doing a little bit of an internet search, just to see what information there is available about…
Tag: 50s
Finding A Vintage Dress for Owl Ski…
A week tomorrow I am off to a swanky party with work. We won a Vodafone competition and our prize is an all expenses paid party and casino at a boutique hotel in Manchester. I’ve been extremely good with my diet (and have lost another stone in weight) but I’m struggling to find a dress…
To Buy or Not to Buy: Avalon Sideboard
Just seen this in a charity shop in Glossop. It’s £45. Do I buy it or not?
Charity Shop Find: Midwinter Dish
Good old Oxfam came up trumps again just before the weekend. This will most likely end up on my Ebay pile, once I get into selling again. I also got a VERY Christmassy woolly jumper from the 80s, but I’ll spare you from the sight of that… My little Midwinter dish is a Fashion Shape…
Tretchikoff Style Metal Cast Heads
I was just having a think about all of the amazing things that I’ve seen over the year in a variety of places: charity shops, markets, shops, Ebay, car boot sales… and I remembered about these amazing things that Aidan bought at the start of December. We’d been down to Stafford to see my parents,…
Christmas Wish List No.1: Ridgway Homemaker Cake Stand
Designed between 1956-57 by Enid Seeney, it was originally mass produced for sale by Woolworth’s throughout the UK. The pattern features a Robin Day armchair (1952), a Sigvard Bernadotte sofa and a sideboard resembling one by Bernard Russell (info taken from Retroselect.com): I love this print and cannot believe that it used to be sold…
Early ES Keramik West German Pot… and cake!
Even when ill, the retro stuff just cannot keep away from me! Today, while I recuperate, Aidan is off on a charity shop hunt around the North West. He’s already been into Glossop to have a look there and has returned with this little gem for me: We think it’s 1950s, judging by the colours,…
A Tale of Two Donkeys…
It’s probably a little early in the year for a story about a little donkey, but I have to introduce the two new additions to the Italian donkey family. The tale (tail) of my donkeys begins a few months ago. I found a very strange, retro looking ceramic donkey at a car boot sale in…
A Vintage Lover’s Trip Round London…
This weekend we had a fab time in London. A had planned to do the British stage of the Tour de France again – all 120 miles (plus 10 miles) of it. I had a very pleasant day wandering around London with A’s brother and brother’s girlfriend. As a result, here is my quick guide…
Retro Goodies through the post!
Ooooh, how I love to receive a good parcel, or two, or three! Actually, I only received one parcel this week, but my other half received two. One was a Wade Skip the Dog and the other was this lovely Carstens vase: Underneath, it reads W.-Germ. E.4-25. I’ve never actually seen that notation before: the…
Odds and Ends of Retro Italian Pottery
The amount of knowledge I have about Italian pottery amounts to: zilch. I have not got a clue! Whereas with West German pots I’m beginning to build up a bank of knowledge about their origins, era and types, with the Italian stuff I couldn’t tell you who, what, where or when about any of it. …
The Friday Find…
Today’s find! At the moment, I’m all cock-a-hoop with the joys of writing a blog. Admittedly, I’m only getting an average of about ten people a day reading it but I don’t mind as I’m enjoying it so much. However, as I was wandering around Glossop today, I did think that maybe there would…
Little Owl Ski 