Tuesday Song of the Week

Welcome to the Tuesday Song of the Week!

This week's TSotW is something I heard at work.

A song I was familiar with, but hadn't heard in years, and for the life of me I could NOT remember what group it came from.

 

At first I was thinking maybe The Human League.  Then dismissed that.  Really didn't sound like them.

But I know this song.  I KNOW this song.  But who who who did it???

Turns out I REALLY should have known who the group was, because I'm pretty sure once had the cd version of the album it was on...

Anyway...

                                                        'The Look of Love' - ABC

April's Second Haul of Antiques and Untiques

More marvelous marvels for your perusal and purchase!

Wanna see?

BEAUTIFUL (i.e. waaaayyyy better looking than the photo) inlaid plaque depicting the exterior of an Italian villa, with Mount Etna in the background.

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                                                   Delft style chamber stick.

I had this originally describes as a Delft item, but someone messaged me to tell me that this is not Delft, it's Plateelbakkerij Schoonhoven, i.e. 'PS.'

 See the PS at the top right?  And the Schoonover below that.  Thus and therefore not Delft.

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                                              Brother Nodder is in the house!

Brother Nodder IS a nodder, i.e. his head bobs up and down.  

Which is nice.

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                                      PY 'Rooster and Roses' pattern wall pocket. 

Above shows the rooster.  Below are the roses...

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                                                     Camark multi-hold planter

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moody salt and pepper shakers 

happy and jolly 

 

cranky and miserable

Both are the identical shakers, i.e they're happy on one side, unhappy on the other

 

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Welcome to 1977 !!

It's impossible to understate how very Seventies these things are.  

Likely they began life in a house that had faux wood paneling on the walls, avocado green carpets, harvest gold stove and refrigerator, pine furniture, and lots of owl and/or mushroom decor items.  

 

Thus and therefore, if you're interested in old timey Seventies decor items, then these are for you !!

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Thus ends today's collection.

 

Much MUCH more on the way.

 

Until then, see more, get more here:

 

AntiquesUntiques.etsy.com   

Found Online

Today's find is one of the cutest things I've ever seen...

                      It depicts the Year of the Tiger ceding to the Year of the Rabbit

Mug of the Month

 For the fan of forest birds and animals,

or the owl lover...

 Get it here: www.zazzle.com/long_eared_owl_print_coffee_mug-256677986802364908

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is Dick Powell for Camel cigarettes...

                                            "Star of over 40 Hollywood musicals."

IMDB lists him in 57 movies, and a good chunk of those were detective movies and non-musical rom-coms, with a few dramas sprinkled in.  Maybe he starred in 30 or so musicals, but definitely not 40.  

I've seen only one of his movies, The Bad and the Beautiful, which Turner Classic Movies seems to run at least once a month.  

In the ad above, he claims that 'Camels - they agree with my throat.'

Camels also gave him throat and lung cancer, which killed him in 1963, at the age of 58. 

Lucky Dip

Welcome to the first Lucky Dip of the month.

Wanna see? 

First up, History's Most Fun Corporate lunch box...

      Could also be a snarky lunch box for those of you with nightmare jobs.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/my_jobs_a_picnic_metal_lunch_box-256266305322241062

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                                     Something VERY adorable for the cat lover 

                                                      sweet kittens mouse pad

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/two_adorable_kittens_mouse_pad-144353312358700925

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                                                                 suh'm special     

                                                History's Most Beautiful Leggings

Get 'em here: www.zazzle.com/renaissance_jewels_print_leggings-256273946959628005

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                                                   suh'm fun for the kitchen

                                                         in serving tray form

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/crew_cut_vegetable_crate_label_serving_tray-256497489773421233

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                                                         for your money!

               Money prefers to be carried in something attractive, thus and therefore this                               wallet depicting a pirate ship qualifies in spades.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/beautiful_four_masted_ship_print_trifold_wallet-256884339582498707

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                                                     suh'm lovely to cook in

                                                History's Most Beautiful Apron

Get it here: zazzle.com/trumpet_vine_butterflies_hummingbird_print_apron-256584467736937710

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Thus ends today's Lucky Dip.

Come back soon for more!!

Found Online

Today's online find...

The super-handsome Conrad Veidt in the 1934 film Jew Süss, where he played the lead role of Joseph Süss Oppenheimer.  

The film is based on Lion Feuchtwanger's novel, also entitled Jew Süss*.

I've always had kind of a thing for Mr. Veidt. I found the movie on Youtube.  

While it was running I hit 'pause,' then took my snipping thingie, and got the above image.

* Jew Süss is my all-time favorite novel.  It was later published under the title Power, I guess because many people somehow conflated the Nazi version of the movie (which came out in 1940 at the behest of Joseph Goebbels) as somehow being Nazi positive..  

Fun fact:  Joseph Süss Oppenheimer was a real person, a 'court Jew,'  who were financiers and money lenders to the rich and/or royal crowd.  Google him!

If you'd like to see Mr. Veidt in living color, check out the movie The Thief of Bagdad (1940), where he plays Jaffar, i.e. the bad guy.  

                                                     hummina hummina