Feeling a bit glum? These huge, groovy 1970s tin badges should help lift your mood – ‘think happy’ and ‘be happy’.
They were thrown in for free with another purchase at a recent flea market. Happy indeed! 🙂
Tag: 1970s
Etsy List: Clockwatching
Clocks and watches are almost things of the past thanks to everyone having a mobile phone with time, date, alarm and even timer functions.
Week days during my early school life began with me slamming down on the knob of a purple Westclox ‘Big Ben’ pedestal clock. Years later, this gave way to a boxy Sony Digimatic clock alarm radio. Today, we still have a Sony clock alarm radio – this time, a Dream Machine – shaped like a cube with LED numbers and snooze button. A ticking clock, like a dripping tap, would keep me awake all night!
We have a fantastic vintage Seth Thomas starburst clock in our lounge and another Metamec version on the top floor – both beautiful mid century modern icons!
Clockwatching
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Charity Vintage: Molteni Orix desk
(ends 15 Jun, 2014 19:11:57 BST)
It isn’t the greatest photo, but this vintage 1970s Molteni Orix desk is gorgeous! It’s currently up for sale on eBay for Charity by & in support of Katharine House Hospice, Stafford*.
It was designed in Italy for Molteni & Co by V. Parigi and N. Prina and was made in red, white, black, blue, yellow and green. There’s also a matching cantilevered chair. I could just imagine it with an iconic Olivetti Valentine typewriter sitting on the top!
Its starting price is a whopping £599 but it’s an extremely rare item. I can’t find another one currently for sale anywhere on the web.
*Katharine House Hospice, Stafford provides specialist palliative care services to adults across mid-Staffordshire coping with life limiting conditions. They provide support to patients and their loved ones.
In Orbit
WOW! How about this for an eye-popping bit of orange Op Art loveliness?
This cup & saucer is from the Orbit range produced by Burleigh in the 1960s. It’s superb and quite uncharacteristic of their usual output which is normally very traditional. Someone must have had a rush of blood to the head (or taken LSD) that week. It’s quite a rare pattern and doesn’t appear for sale often.
It’s a great display piece, and would also provide the perfect pick-me-up start to the day filled with strong coffee. We’ve got a few for sale and they’ll appear in our webshop soon.