Casual Vintage Holiday Table Centerpiece Using An Old Wooden Drawer
As I’ve said before, I like useful collectibles — and, because I don’t like anything to go to waste, I like to find new ways to make use of old things. Just because something is “old and just laying...
View ArticleChristmas Decorating For Collectors Who Want To Show Off Their Collections
The holidays, with all their visitors, are the perfect time for showing off our collections. And what collector doesn’t want to show off their collection?! Instead of replacing your antique and vintage...
View ArticleVintage German Christmas Tree Candle Clips
Before electricity made its way into most homes, Christmas trees had the warm glow of candlelight. The candles were attached to the tree branches via little metal clips. Most often they were decorative...
View ArticleDisplaying Vintage Cookie Cutters
Some collections are easy to display for the holidays — and don’t require any additional trimmings either. In our space at Exit 55 Antiques, I’ve put the vintage cookie cutters in the ceramic basin of...
View ArticleOver 55 thousand vintage dress privately collected — and offered to you
55thousanddresses – Over 55 thousand dress privately collected and offered to you.
View ArticleVintage Irons Hold-Up Well
If you’d like to put your antique & vintage irons to good use — without risking your clothing or textiles, or if you’d just like a neat way to display some of your old irons, consider using them as...
View ArticleSweet Antique Candy Boxes
Valentine’s Day wouldn’t be Valentine’s Day without the proverbial box of chocolates! These two boxes are pretty examples of sweet antique advertising ephemera. The first box marked “Overhauser’s of...
View ArticleAntique Logging Stamp Hammer
This is an antique stamp hammer, and part of lumber history. A stamp hammer was used to make “end marks” on lumber and logs. These end marks are much like bands in that they are used to identify...
View ArticleAntique Primitive Seed Planter
It’s rather rare to find these antique seed planters in such good condition — on this one, you scan still make out the original stenciled information. This one is marked “The Triumph” and it was...
View ArticleStrawberry Tablecloths Forever
Nothing quite cheers me up like vintage strawberry print tablecloths. Especially on a cold night, when Spring still seems like it’s forever away. Here are a few of my favorite recent “pickings”. This...
View ArticleWilendur Bouquets With Cherries On Top
Speaking of strawberry tablecloths… I do love the mix of flowers, cherries, and strawberries across the grid pattern on this vintage print Wilendur tablecloth.
View ArticleNorma Kamali’s Vintage Sale
See on Scoop.it – Antiques & Vintage Collectibles Norma Kamali’s Vintage Sale begins at 5 PM tomorrow, May 1, 2014. This sale isn’t just for those who love Norma Kamali, but vintage fashion in...
View ArticleA Trio Of Vanity Collectibles
Some lovely vanity collectibles from stainedglasssonia: A vintage Chinese hand mirror with a hand-painted geisha on the porcelain back, an intricately embossed silver metal settings and celadon jade...
View ArticleWhat A Beauty!
A stunning vintage Vanity Fair nightgown with lots of lovely details! Buy it here.
View ArticleSophie Gimbel Designs For Saks — And Dolls!
Because you know I obsess over things… Like Gimbels department stores… I was working on another set of doll articles for Diane’s Doll Hospital (this time on vintage walker dolls from the 1950s; sign up...
View ArticleSophie Gimbel On Fashion
Sophie Gimbel on fashion: I believe that today as always smart women dress only in terms of their own likes, looks, lives, Sophia Vintage Saks Fifth Avenue fashion ad, 1950; photography by Leslie Gill;...
View ArticleThe Return Of The Typewriter!
We love typewriters; we sell a few of them too. So naturally I noticed this news article about The Times adding the sound of typewriters back into the newsroom. But it isn’t quite what you think… To...
View ArticleVintage Bronzeware Flatware From Thailand
I found this vintage bronzeware set while helping my parents, Antiquips, of No Egrets Antiques, with their latest estate sale. (Details and photos of this latest sale can be found on their Facebook...
View ArticleHow To Wash & Care For Antique China, Vintage Glass, Silverware & Other Fine...
(It’s More That “Just A Tradition!”) At holiday time, we all bring out the fancy china and silverware — the old china and silverware if we are lucky enough to have it. Age, material, and condition...
View ArticleThe Halloween Tradition Of Romantic Tricks & Treats
Halloween was once steeped in the tradition of belief that the veil between this world and the next was thinnest at this time of year and so was considered a time when fortunes could be best told. Not...
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