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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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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