We’re back home after a long-overdue trip down to London and Brighton. The Big Smoke has inspired our Etsy List selection for this week!
There are some wonderful products in our selection, including designs by a couple of favourite illustrators Kenneth Townsend and Miroslav Sasek whose work we’ve blogged about before.
London Calling!
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We’ve tracked down another one of these fabulous & rare, vintage match-books produced for Liberty in the 1960s.
The last example we featured was designed by Miroslav Sasek – this one’s the work of another favourite illustrator, George Him.
A row of guardsmen provides the inspiration – each with their own unique facial expression & medal collection.
The match-book is unused and in very good condition. They really are rare survivors and don’t appear often.
We actually had this one sent all the way from America.
We’ve added it to our collection of quirky London inspired design pieces – they really put a smile on our faces.
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We’ve mentioned Kenneth Townsend quite a lot in blogs in the past – he’s one of our favourite designers. His “Menagerie” series of tiles are very collectable and much sought after. Here’s a lot of five Kenneth Townsend “Menagerie” tiles for sale on eBay in support of The Iain Rennie Hospice at Home*.
*The Iain Rennie Hospice at Home is a registered charity in the Chiltern area which offers specialist home nursing care, support and advice for patients with life threatening illnesses. The professional care offered by our teams of nurses enables patients to stay at home through their illness.
We bought this vintage marble game last week. It’s a simple little game which involves rolling marbles down the wooden shoot aiming at archways with different scores. We’ve done a little research and found that the game is called “bridgeboard”.
What makes this version extra special are the fabulous illustations by Kenneth Townsend.
The animals will look very familiar to fans of the artist’s “Menagerie” tile series that we’ve blogged about before.
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