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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