while we wait for summer [and not the Donna version]
want some hot stuff baby?
Seventies Pyrex warmers. Tea light candles keep it heated at the table.
Eat your heart out.
Cathrineholm enamel Fondue set. What can I say? Her stuff is on fire, hard to get and comes at a price.
Won’t let this one go til after my opening soiree [or never] but I have more to offer. This is just a taste.
Lookin for a place for some hot love? It’s right here, right now.
Is it an incurable addiction to collecting vintage kitchen implements?
OR
oversized and engorged utensils of a certain age?
Whatever the diagnosis, this strange bug is not to be confused with another designer affliction uncommonly known as stencilitis
of which I also exhibit classic symptoms.
I may not recover but I have the tools to cope.
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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.
I’m not actually camping this Easter break, more urban than rustic perhaps…
Pannekins. Small Amounts.
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Mini enamel mugs.
Take Billy, he keeps it steamy.
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Enamel steamer. Excellent condition.
The only iron you need.
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Vintage Jaffle Iron. Made in England.
I want to hang this on the wall of my country house, it’s been built already [somewhere] but it aint mine yet, consarn it.
Do you like my French? Non.
And no talking like a grizzled 1890’s Prospector either.
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Enamel dinner plate, The Antique General Store
6 x Serviette Rings, [little knives, forks & spoons] a wedding present, once brass, I had them powdercoated
orange carafe + 2
Other working titles for this post include:
Orange You Glad
[obscure reference from the awesome Tina Fey’s movie Baby Mama]
Or
Feel free to offer up any suggestions, am a bit lacklustre today…
urban rustic 