Forthcoming Attractions: Early February 2016

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vintage homeware items from H is for Home

Here’s a selection of this week’s vintage finds.

Large vintage Asco shop scales

We’ll start with the big lump that’s trying unsuccessfully to hide in the background! These vintage shop scales by Asco are absolutely huge. They’ve got lots of character and would look great on a kitchen worktop or table.

Vintage brass horses and gold goose necked desk lamp

Next up, some mid century modern style with the brass horses and flexi-neck lamp with similar colour metallic finish. We mentioned the good selection of lamps we keep at our antiques centre space in last week’s Forthcoming Attractions post – two sold this week, so this one will fill a gap!

Pair of brass verdigris horse figures

This pair of Etruscan-like horses date from the 1960s era and are in the style of Frederick Weinberg. They have a very stylised, striking form with impressed decoration and original green verdigris effect finish.

vintage Gie Gantofta pottery tea jar

We love this 1950s pottery tea canister. In fact, we keep our cooking salt in a similar pot by the stove. This one’s actually better than ours as it’s got its original wooden lid. Still, Justin uses so much salt when cooking that a lid would seriously slow him down!

vintage Danish breakfast set comprising wooden base, stainless steel toast rack, lidded plastic marmalade jar and wooden spoon

This breakfast set is a wonderful example of its type. Made from teak & stainless steel, it combines toast rack with lidded preserve pot. It’s Danish and dates from the 1960s. The condition is excellent and it retains its very nice original spoon. The perfect accessory for a lazy breakfast in bed!

corner of a vintage Rally-Klad tartan travel rug

Last, but certainly not least, is this gorgeous travel rug or picnic blanket. We find these vintage rugs much harder to source than we used to once upon a time. The rich colours in this tartan pattern are gorgeous.

All items are heading to the web shop or antiques centre space in the coming days. Please get in touch if you see anything of interest.

Forthcoming Attractions: Mid October 2012

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selection of vintage homewares soon to be for sale in the H is for Home shop including large tin first aid box; orange, 3-tier filing tray; ceramic Gie Gantofta rice jar; Worcester Ware rice storage tin; Rorstrand Pottery "Wasa" lidded bowl; pair of 1970s Bri-Nylon floral bedding sets

Here’s a quick peek at some vintage homewares heading to the H is for Home shop soon.

selection of vintage homewares soon to be for sale in the H is for Home shop including large tin first aid box; orange, 3-tier filing tray; ceramic Gie Gantofta rice jar; Worcester Ware rice storage tin; Rorstrand Pottery "Wasa" lidded bowl; pair of 1970s Bri-Nylon floral bedding sets

It’s getting harder to find nice vintage bedding – particularly unused. So we were very pleased to find these two 1960s floral sets – one in shades of orange, one blue. Each double bed set comprises top sheet, bottom sheet and pair of pillowcases.

pair of 1970s Bri-Nylon floral duvet sets

This gorgeous biscuit jar was designed by Anita Nylund in the 1960s – this hand painted range for Jie Gantofta has such a distinctive look. You can also get tea, coffee, sugar, salt, rice, dried fruit and so on. We’ve even seen a jar for fish!

vintage Gie Gantofta rice storage jar

This zingy orange filing tray will certainly brighten up a dull office – but perhaps not a dull tax return!

orange plastic, 3-tier office filing tray

We love these vintage first aid cabinets – we’ve got a small one in our bathroom which contains the emergency items. When we say emergency we’re stretching things a bit – plasters, bandages, scissors & Savlon more like!!

This metal one is huge though – it could fit your entire toiletry needs. It dates from the 1920s/30s sort of era. The WRCC stands for West Riding County Council.

large vintage black painted first aid tin

Another great item from Worcester Ware next. We mention them quite often, but they produced some lovely metalware. This rice tin dates from the 1950s and features agricultural workers from around the world – tea pickers, rice growers, coffee harvesters etc.

vintage 1950s Worcester Ware rice storage tin

Alongside the tin is this small pottery tureen. It’s from the Wasa range produced by Rorstrand Pottery – we don’t think we’ve ever had any of this before. We love the pattern’s simplicity & colours.

vintage lidded Rorstrand Pottery "Wasa" bowl

We’ll spread the items out between our webshop & antiques centre pitch – let us know if you’re interested in something, but can’t find it.