vintage Christmas gifts for dog people

We have some barkingly awesome retro for the dog lover:

vintage Christmas gifts for cat people

I gotcher cat stuff right hyar, I do.

(My hubs sometimes talks to me in this seethingly cornpone accent that would make even Junior Samples roll his eyes.)

Anyway, cats...

retro Christmas

Because Christmas mania shifts into high gear today (and in some places, like my local dollar store, as early as July) here's some more vintage Christmas stuff.

You probably saw these before, too, but they're so gosh darn precious I think you should see them again.  

They're so exceptionally adorable, I'm very tempted to keep them.

Problem is that my cats would also be fond of them, and they express their fondness in a way that would mean little bits and pieces of the elves would end up everywhere.

Angkor What?

What is an enamel atomic ashtray,  

which shows us Angkor Wat.

As atomic and Mid-Century Modern as you could possibly desire!

History's cutest...

needlepoint!

The framing is new, but the needlepoint is from the 1930s.

new old stickpins

These were VERY popular in the late 1970s, and what few turn up usually don't have the bottom part.  But here we have the main part, the bottom part AND the original store thingie:

I recently got an entire box of these, mostly in the above designs, but also a few more.

1000 !!!

Yep, one THOUSAND illustrations in this book:

A treasure trove of mid-to-late Victorian fashion of every description: dresses, evening gowns, lingerie, hats and hair stuff, etc. etc. etc.