My entire collection of 1970s avocado green Pyrex in Crazy Daisy and Spring Blossom [the smaller flower print with leaves] for sale $125 plus postage. Out they go…
to make room for these: welcome Holmegaard…
Candle or vase? You flip. Double the functionality, three times the quality from the brilliant Danish legends in Royal Copenhagen Crystal.
And more on the holm front: Cathrineholm that is. Assume the Lotus position people, and hold onto it? Or let it go?
My first piece. Can you keep a secret? I managed to buy this on Ebay listed as vintage mid-century Danish [actually it’s Norwegian] kettle. Woot. I feel kind of bad. Should I have told her it was Cathrineholm? I didn’t get it for ridic cheap, there’s plenty of cluey ebayers out there, but I did get it for half the price, or a quarter depending where you look.
So do I keep it and start a collection I can’t afford to have [the quality and thickness of the enamel is outstanding, I do see why they are sought after] or send it off to a happy new home with a few bucks extra in my pocket?
More green, with envy this time, when a few days later a lovely lady visiting my shop told me she picked up an orange Lotus bowl for $4 at our local Red Cross. [RRP between $140 – $200] Not quite the holy grail of collecting, like buying a box of $200 million Ansel Adams negatives at a garage sale for $45 but an awesome score all the same. She said she had heart palpitations. Me too, I couldn’t concentrate for about half an hour after hearing that story. Damn I wish it had been me…
So I think I might let the kettle go, I love being green, but its orange and blue and yellow that I’m digging the most.
What’s your best roadside/ garage sale, market score? I love these stories. Seems they are a bit thin on the ground now even the sweet old ladies at Salvos get on Ebay before pricing a piece of plastic.
urban rustic 
On the topic of Cathrineholm, I managed to score a full set of canisters in yellow for $50 locally which sell on ebay for around $400. Yellow and blue are the colours I decided to collect and this was the first piece (although not strictly Cathrineholm) I found!
Also found five pots for $40 locally and recently bought a coffee pot for $25 plus postage. I was bidding on this kettle but you just beat me, and fine by me as I can hardly complain considering my past bargains! 🙂
Oh wow Nikki! You have had some great scores. I’ve never even seen any except at one of my friends houses and she got hers years ago before they started getting ridic expensive. The canisters are divine. Your shelves must look amazing with all those gorgeous pieces and awesome Pyrex. Do you have a blog?
A speedy customer (she got to them before me!) bought five Cathrineholm canisters in orange for the princely sum of six bucks, at an op-shop three or four months ago (I have tried my best to wipe the sorry experience from my mind so I can’t be sure exactly…) She had to go to the bank (it was an old-fashioned op-shop – no eftpos, AND the reason why they were so bl**dy cheap in the first place!) before she could buy them, and while she was gone I pleaded with the ladies to let me buy them if she didn’t come back, but of course she did – she was no dummy! I have three yellow canisters (a freebie from my husband’s Mum) but they are bit battered and scratched because she was using them to store nails and screws in! Really! I love your teapot – or is it a kettle?
Oh Kylie, I am tortured by that story too. You poor thing. Worse to know about/ witness these things isnt it? Messes with your brain. So there must be some good stuff still to be found in the west then? Pyrex/Cathrineholm Addict above AKA Nikki has found some awesome stuff in in WA too. Seriously, Sydney is so picked over the story about about the $4 bowl at Avalon Red Cross would seem like urban legend to me, only I heard it straight from the lucky lady’s mouth. How funny about the nail storage…
Why am I loving this now, when I hated it as a kid? Prob because it reminded me of tuna casserole. Still hate TC!
Really? My mum never made it. Casseroles are thing of the past though aren’t they? Sounds so daggy and unhip. A tuna tagine
Really? My mum never made it. There was lots of lamb stew for me. Casserole is such a daggy word now isn’t it? Funny
Hmmm I’ve never heard of the word, “daggy” but I like it 🙂 however I don’t like lamb stew either!!
I didn’t realize daggy was not universal. Funny. What’s the American equivalent of tragic/lame/embarrassingly unstylish?
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Beautiful Pyrex collection . . . minus the hated Tuna casserole.
I’m particularly proud of my original Star Wars bedding set of sheet, pillow case and doona cover for $6 from Vinnies. Saving that one for my son in a few years time.
Score! I know a few adults who would give their first born for that set. Possibly even my husband. Our son was not named Luke randomly…