Black and Gold 1950s vintage pottery - Mid-Century glam!

I just love this swanky 1950s vase with its glossy black finish covered with a textured gold trim! I buy every single piece of the black with gold 1950s pottery pieces I find, and I'm surprised that they haven't yet become a trend among collectors.

EVERY bedroom bookcase sported these pieces. So did the tops of the t.v.s and two tiered end tables! One of the best things about these pieces is how durable they are. 60 plus years and you rarely see a chip, crack or crazing!

So, since I love them, I declare they are the next vintage trend! What do you think?

Ebay too! Find vintage from any old time!

I am finding Ebay to be a great place to buy and sell vintage. Like this darling antique tea caddy! Or stunning beaded purse. I know it will reach more people with Ebay's incredible traffic! Maybe not this time around, but my experience has been that nearly all of my items I list on ebay sell within a few weeks.

As opposed to Artfire that has no traffic to speak of and no plans on attracting it. For that reason, I'm putting my replacement china pieces all on Artfire. Maybe someone will find it there.

And then, for the more quirky, romantic, swanky vintage...my Etsy Shop! Any Old Time Vintage is THE place! Come visit me everywhere!

Victorian Paper Punch Motto Sampler and more this Friday

This Victorian Paper Punch Motto Sampler in its original Adirondack frame is listed on Ebay, along with some other great old items! Find me AOTV, I have been having luck finding these motto samplers lately, this one has as its motto the name of the hymn the orchestra on the Titanic reportedly played on deck as the ship sank.

Also on Ebay, two vintage radios, a vintage or antique cloisonne matchbox cover, a really cool vintage record album rack, super vintage standard poodle figures and more!

This week on Artfire, I have listed more replacement china dinnerware patterns, a beautiful old pewter wine taster or porringer, and a swanky atomic orange plastic boomerang ashtray!

On Etsy, we have a super vintage paint by number handpainted tole tray with birds, a cute vintage spaniel figurine, a baby nursery wall box with lamb decals and more real victorian era lithograph prints. Also have a "new" vintage McCoy pottery piece.

I've been super busy with my family the past week, and the garden isn't quite in, but more to come! To see my whole blog, just click on the banner at the top of the page. Thanks for stopping!

Shawnee Cookie Jar Bottom or now a bowl?

v. Isn't it cute as a mixing bowl? Sturdy little Shawnee cookie jar bottom with no top..one of my auction finds this week that I just had to get up and listed...this one is in my Artfire shop. I found the cookie jar online but I don't even LIKE the top, but love the bottom! So, if this never sells, it's got a great home with me in my vintage kitchen, I am thinking utensils? Or maybe breadsticks?

I had a really busy Ebay week, with stuff listed and sold before the week was out. My favorite new vintage items are another 1940s tweed suitcase with stripes and a fabulous bombshell vintage bathing suit with a square neckline! And a vintage humidor, a neat Lands End garment bag that's not being made anymore and a really neat vintage wall sconce. More to come AFTER ... the gardening today, hopefully!!

I haven't listed much in Artfire this week, and things seem ... unsettled on Etsy this week ... problems with them losing my items in Google shopping, etc.

But the big news of the week is not online at all for me, it's that I have been going ga-ga for gardening, got 2 flats of petunias into the ground, which is a milestone because it means I got the beds all prepped and ready to stick seeds all around the petunias, which I consider a filler annual. The irises are thisclose to blooming, the lettuce and spinach are yummy, and yes, I have neglected my three little shops somewhat this week!

Want to see everything in all of them? Here's Artfire, here's Any Old Time Vintage at Etsy and here's ebay

Fabulous Friday Vintage Finds - 4-22-11 - Op Art, Carved Box and More Victorian Art

Far out! I just listed this groovy Op Art psychedelic record album carrier on Ebay! Listing is free for the first 50 items a month and the traffic is incredible there, so I will be listing at least 50 items a month! Here's another great piece, a 1940s tweed stripe suitcase. Just getting started though, had a wild and busy week, all fun. We sold an old truck that hubby was hoping to restore but gave up on, so a whole new garden patch to work!
In my Any Old Time Vintage on Etsy, I did get a few things listed including this midcentury Asian decor recipe box. And even more real Victorian chromolithographs. I love this genuine Victorian art to offer, so romantic, huh? If you missed my blog all about Victorian chromolithographs, just click on the banner on the top of the page, and you'll see my whole blog!

In my Artfire shop this week, I just tinkered with my vintage for sale, come see them all!

But I bought a ton of unbelievably wonderful vintage this week that I am preparing to photograph and list for you! Want to receive my newsletter every Friday? Just click on "follow", or as more and more vinties are doing, follow by email, up on the upper right of this blog!

Victorian Chromolithograph Prints - What are they?

I LOVE these Victorian prints, and snapped them up at a recent auction. They are chromolithographs and the colors are as vivid as the day they were made 120 or so years ago. So I had to find out about this process...what exactly is it and when and why were they made?

I totally love researching things like this!

I found that chromolithography was the technique to make inexpensive art for "regular" folks back in Victorian times. Often, a beautiful chromolitho was included in the magazines of the day, often to illustrate a short story. They were meant to be removed from the magazine and framed and enjoyed, beautiful Victorian wall art!

The technique was very labor intensive, more than 20 lithograph stones were often used, and they had to line up properly. The color is gob-smacking brilliant, my scans don't do them justice. The workmanship is mind-boggling. Can you imagine how striking it would be to have an array of these original prints?

I'm listing these in both of my Etsy shops and on my artfire one. The ones including animals are going into my pet portraits and animal art, the others in my Vintage Shop.

I am going to search for vintage frames for these beauties. These Victorian art prints are being sold shipped flat and ready to mat and frame. Any additional info you can add about them? Please comment!

Fabulous Friday Vintage Finds - 4/8/2011 - Hand Painted Photographs

I didn't wait til the Washington DC Japanese Cherry Tree festival to list this pretty vintage handcolored photograph, I just found it this week! And it's my Friday Find of the week! It's by 1920s - 1950s photographer and artist Royal Carlock, who specialized in D.C. landscape scenes like this. Back in the era of just black and white photos, hand coloring photos was the way to get color. So each one, interestingly, is a one of a kind. Wallace Nutting is the most famous artist of this medium, but Carlock is among the others. I come across them from time to time, and usually they are faded, but this one is in great condition and in its original frame! There are special oil based tints that you use. Anyway, I love the notion of one of a kind! And the trees shown are probably not there anymore, they have a life span and cultivars from the originals have been planted. Washington is only 2 hours from me and such a great city to visit. As an artist and history buff, I can find something fun to see every time I go! Anyway, beside this beauty, some of the pieces I listed this week already sold, but here's more! The Hollywood Regency vanity mirror set I blogged about earlier (click on my banner to see my whole blog!), an antique French and Company Martha Washington Gravy Boat, another neat 1970s mug, a 1960s skinny tie and more authentic vintage! Tomorrow I'm doing a local school flea market with the boxes and boxes of non-vintage that I acquire at box lots at auctions I attend all winter. Everything is marked between $1 and $3, so if you are in the Delaware County, PA or Philadelphia area, come on over to the Interboro High School flea sponsored by the MOMS club! And say hi!

Vintage Hen on Nest - Blue body and white head by Westmoreland

I found this sweet blue and white hen on nest at an auction last summer but rediscovered it in a box, wrapped in newspaper. It was like Christmas all over again, finding this vintage kitchen collectible

nesting...or nestled...in last year's papers, just getting older and better with age!

I can even recall standing in the hot and humid sun, hoping to get a chance to win the table that this beautiful glass dish from Westmoreland was perched on!

I've seen lots of hens on nests, but this one is spectacular, with it's coloring and split tail, and she's in fabulous condition! She's in my Any Old Time shop at Etsy.

Fabulous Friday Vintage Finds - 4/1/11 - From Any Old Time

A bit of vintage from any old time is literally true with this week's Fabulous Friday finds!

Here's a 1960s green and gold lamp, I also had a really old candy tin that sold within moments of listing!

And a redware dog, 1970s crewel pictures, more silhouette pictures, depression glass amber refrigerator box, recipe box, and my favorite of the week, a vintage carved music box that is of Mack the Knife but plays Born Free by assembly mix up.

Now, Mack the Knife has special memories for me. One of my first memories ever is of my fun and smart and gorgeous mom singing along with Bobby Darin and dancing with a broom to "Mack the Knife", then sweeping me up and dancing with ME.

And "Born Free" was the first non-fiction book I ever read and I still love non-fiction. I especially love to read about people having adventures in Antartica and Africa and on the high seas while I sit with my feet up by the fire with a cup of tea or glass of wine!

All these and more listed this week on Any Old Time Vintage on Etsy.

I went to an auction this week that was full of trash, and I mean that literally. A filthy, grease encrusted toaster, a half bag of kitty litter, broken stuff, and yes, I waited for nearly two hours til some great vintage clocks came up for bid! I'll be showing them to you soon! But they both work, they're both vintage from different eras and they are both spectacular!

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Vintage Glass Refrigerator Box - Save your leftovers safely & in style with Vintage Depression Glass!

Yes they are lovely! But vintage depression glass refrigerator boxes are as useful as they are pretty.

Hard to find now, but the best thing then and now for storage of cheese and leftovers. I started collecting these a while ago when questions were first raised about what exactly plastic containers were leaking into our food. Of course, lots of people now question the safety of plastic for food, they are made from PETROLEUM, after all.

And you know glass can go into the dishwasher! Elegant enough to be a storage container in a retro kitchen, boudoir or bath...or even an office! This beauty is a lovely amber color, I have them in green and clear, too. Click on the underlined text to see more glass, and other quirky, romantic and stylish vintage from Any Old Time!

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Fabulous Friday Vintage Finds - 3/25/11 from Any Old Time

Retro Red seems to be the vintage theme this week, with red and white monogrammed 1970s cups, a 1950s wood barrel cookie jar with red letters and even a red kettle bank! I have a neat slanted glass canister with a big plastic red knob coming, but the photos are not up to par, so that will come.

Also new are an adorable old teddy bear, a metal toy horse, and really pretty silvertone vanity mirror, among others, all on my Etsy Vintage shop.

I think more vanity are coming, and lots more of everything.

This week I spent more time moving in person and online than I did listing. As I mentioned earlier in the week, I'm moving all of my items from my failed experiment of trying to sell on Artfire, and was so encouraged that two of the items formerly languishing there sold in very short order on Etsy!

And I am moving my vintage work/storage room from the smallest room in the upstairs to the largest, which gave me an opportunity to clean the very back of the closets and actually get rid of things nobody has wanted or needed for 6 years!

I did also get to a flea market this week but not with my good vintage. Instead, I took the nice-but-not-vintage I find or get in box lots at the auctions and estate sales I go to. The weather isn't cooperating for more outdoor things for a while (since they start in the wee hours of the morning) so now that I'm organized, I'll be listing lots more on Etsy. Ebay starts up again in mid April, when listing with no fees begins. I'll have both vintage AND artwork of my own, other contemporary artists, old lithographs, vintage artwork..just a ton of interesting things up for grabs.

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Silhouette Saying Cross-stich Sampler- Needlework from the 1920s

In 1928, a dear named S.D.S. cross-stiched this beauty with the saying:

"To food and drink add song and jest
You will always be a welcome guest

I just love the colonial pair with one toasting the other..after singing for his dinner? Or telling a great joke? Since I have such a terrible singing voice and can't remember a joke (my husband thinks that makes me a GREAT wife!), I'm out of luck! The saying, unfortunately, has almost disappeared with age, but the gents and their intent and all other colors are vibrant. It's in an old frame, not sure if it's original or not.

Anyway, I just wanted to show you this! I seem to have a knack for stumbling across samplers from the 1920s, which aren't as pricey as the ones that are from the 1800s, but no less charming! For all the details on this 1920s Silhouette Sampler <---click there! Thanks for stopping by my blog!

Vintage Industrial Chic fan - midcentury modern classic

I spotted this fabulous vintage industrial chic fan made in 1960 at a garage sale where it sat, sad and dusty and forgotten on a bottom shelf.

So I inquired and got it! Don't you just love the sleek midcentury modern design? Not a smidge of plastic on this beauty.

I've learned to take a look around at garage sales at what's NOT on the table...the things I love the best are often thought of by their owners as too old to be salable. And they think an "antique" is a chair or a dish! Authentic vintage at its best here at Any Old Time!