today's antiques and untiques

I'm very determined to empty out the garage of the many many MANY treasures in there, so you'll soon be seeing MANY more antiques and untiques.

Here's what we have for today:

circa 1920 Barbour Silver Company Dutch style tea caddy   SOLD

 The sides has crowns and hearts and torches, oh my !

The lid has people and a dog and flowers.  

 The top of the lid has more flowers.
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    Sancho Panza is in the house !!  SOLD

 riding his donkey

a handsome animal, no?

YES.
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 Next up, the Victorian and the useful.

This is a paper clip

in beautiful brass

 Made in England.

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pretty birds

 in planter form

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          frog trio music box       SOLD

It plays 'You Are My Sunshine'

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We be having Lenox

The very lovely Barrington pattern

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       SOLD

Lastly, but far from leastly we have these VERY lively pigs salt and pepper shakers.

who have their original cork stoppers.  Which is nice.
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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

latest ashtray

I know that I have two or three more new additions to my vintage advertising ashtray collection, but they're are buried somewhere in my garage.

But this one I was able to dig out from one of my boxes of new finds.

Kaier's closed in 1968.

True fact: circa 2002-2007, I was planning to move to Schuylkill County, were Kaier's had been.  Even found a house in Coaldale, which I put a bid on.  The house needed a little work, but the front porch faced a mountain, so that made up for it.  Three days -- THREE DAYS -- before closing, my mortgage was yanked.  I could not believe it.  Then in the following Sunday Inquirer was an article about how homebuyers were suddenly getting their mortgages yanked, days before closing.

In retrospect, for a lot of reasons, I'm glad I didn't eventually move there.

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I vividly remember where I first heard this.

My husband and I (I'm not sure if we were even married yet.  I digress) had gone to a diner on Street Road in Bensalem for breakfast.  

Pancakes for me.  Dead animal and eggs for him.  

The pancakes weren't all that good.  How someone could make sub-par pancakes* is beyond me.  

Anyway, on the way out, I could still hear the mood music piped into the restaurant, and it was this song.

Mr. Dieingly Sad - The Critters

Want really REALLY REALLY good pancakes?  The best in the known world?

Go here:

Marge's Diner

1974 U.S. 9, 

Cape May Court House, NJ 08210

Marge's is a breakfast/lunch place, so you ought to try to get there before 2:00 pm.

Bag o' the Day

Today's bag is really lovely, depicting an image of the tongue-cut sparrow of Japanese lore.

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/japanese_fairytale_the_tongue_cut_sparrow_print_tote_bag-256069499359111582

See the hundreds of other bags in my shop here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/shopping+bags

completely puzzling

Even MORE awesome jigsaw puzzles!  Cool jigsaw puzzles! Beautiful jigsaw puzzles!  Retro jigsaw puzzles! Unique jigsaw puzzles !

YES !!!

Today I have 1920s - and earlier - sheet music cover puzzles. At least three times in the last 6 months, I've been at flea markets, and found whole boxes of these song sheets.  All with fantastic covers.

To see the other over 1,900 (that's one thousand, nine hundred and some) jigsaw puzzles puzzles in my shop, go here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/puzzles

suh'm old and rare

I've posted a couple of these before.

Here's another one.

The idea is to read every other line, which gives you the message:

Bag o' the Day

The print for today's bag was found on a Victorian trade card.

A VERY cute Victorian trade card, depicting kittens and butterflies.

The image on the actual bag is sharp as a tack, not blurry like what you see here.

(I try and try and try, and still can't get this right)

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?dp=252872504922109993&pg=1&ps=204

See my other 800+ tote bags here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/shopping+bags

The Tuesday Song of the Week

Haven't heard this one in ages, until I heard it last week in the supermarket.

'Love Light in Flight' - Stevie Wonder

Even though I love this song, the ending of it does go on too long.  

The Star Made Me Buy It

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. for Stetson Hats

Handsome guy, spiffy hat.

Whenever I hear or take part in a conversation of old movies, and the name Douglas Fairbanks comes up, it's always that they're referring to Douglas Jr.  Or other times, they're talking about Douglas Fairbanks Sr. (which is very rare because almost all of his output was in silent movies), but they'll refer to him as Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. 

Latest antiques and untiques

Just a few for today, but a whole garage-worth still in the pipeline.

Another antique lion door knocker 

(there's another one in my shop, plus there aretwo non-lion door knockers),

but the only one mounted on wood.

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Beeyootiful incolay jewelry box   SOLD

with adorable little bird bath

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another jewelry box, but this one doubles as a music box.

Plays 'My Way'

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EPIC sweet and adorable 1950s hand-made cat doll

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This is really cool.

 

SCARY

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Lotsa Alfred Meakin Fair Winds fruit bowls

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 Tony the Tiger is in the house !!

And in a plastic bag he's been in since 1997.

True fact.

Maybe he could use his bandanna as a face mask.

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Marvelous little 1950s Nicholas Reich handbag

 

Awesome and barely used !!

Note the print is consistent all over the bag.  What looks like fading is a trick of the light.

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circa 1910 Made in Bavaria pansy jar

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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

truly puzzling

With more maahvelous jigsaw puzzles !!

A caveat: Try as I might, these always look blurry-ish when I post them here.  The actual puzzles are NOT blurry.  

Last time I posted puzzles with animals.

Today we'll have ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies first:

an old-time beauty.  

Could be from pretty much any era in history

 

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From 1920. 

The beauty on the cover is the tragic Martha Mansfield.

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late Victorian or Edwardian fashion plate

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Back to Old Hollywood.

The actress in this crazy image might be Mae Murray.

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Next up, the gentlemen:

Found in a 1920s Broadway playbill.

I have a whole collection of 1920s and early 1930s Broadway playbills,

 and EVERY one has a full-color ad for Kelly-Springfield tires.

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From a book about Aladdin

We be golfin'

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From a 1950s ad for Stetson hats

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To see the over 1800 jigsaw puzzles in my shop, go here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/puzzles

The Tuesday Song of the Week

Today's TSOTW sounds like it might have begun life on a 78 circa 1922.

'Prince Nez' - Squirrel Nut Zippers

The Star Made Me Buy It

Doris Day for Lux soap

I don't think her picture here looks like her all that much.  

Know this: I've never seen a Doris Day movie that I didn't like.  It's a shame that she pulled the plug on her movie career in the mid-1960s.