October 2026's First Haul of Antiques and Untiques

Lately I've been finding absolutely FANTASTIC merchandise.

Soon of which a ton will appear here.

Wanna see some?

       Above is a paperweight celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the Traveler Insurance Companies 1864-1964.  

And even though the paperweight is over fifty years old, it's in practically perfect condition.

The tall building is called 'Traveler's Tower.'  When it was built in 1919, it was the seventh tallest building in the world.  

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Let's enter the Wayback Machine for this very lovely...

                                                               hair receiver

Few people, I'm sure, still used these as hair receivers, but they make great receptacles for potpourri.

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      A MUCH cooler than average hourglass, and perfect for timing your time on the phone.

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                            Copeland Spode Fairy Dell pattern bread & butter plates

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                                                       Fairy Dell salad plates

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                                                         elephant match safe

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Thus ends today's collection.

See more, get more here: 

      AntiquesUntiques.etsy.com

Lucky Dip

I had 8 gazillion sales from my Zazzle store this year.

What's super neato about that is that all 8 gazillion things are still available.  They're not a one-time thing.  The same tote bag, the same tablecloth, the same jigsaw puzzle can be sold over and over and over, because I uploaded the image, made a tote bag, a tablecloth, a jigsaw puzzle, and because they save the image on the tote bag, the tablecloth, the jigsaw puzzle, they can keep making them.

Which is kinda marvelous.  In that you get send the same tote bag, tablecloth or jigsaw puzzle to all your nears and dears !!

Anyway, here's today's collection:

                                             An intensely lovely fruit basket paperweight.

Perfect for the fruit-intensive decor, chintz decor, cottagecore decor.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/beautiful_fruit_basket_paperweight-256120066311584276

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                                      Some maaahvelous abstract print car mats.

I don't get why this photo looks so bad.  Know that the mats look MUCH better than the photo.

Get 'em here: www.zazzle.com/byzantine_print_car_floor_mat-256110800164049491

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                                        SUPER cute SUPER floofy dogs tile

Something appealing for the dog-intensive decor, floofy dog decor, and/or a great gift for the fan of floofy canines.

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/cute_floofy_dogs_ceramic_tile-256734151190368383

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                                              History's Most Beautiful Yoga Mat

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/red_white_and_blue_abstract_print_yoga_mat-256675996284425394

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                                                    BEAUTIFUL rose print scarf

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/victorian_red_rose_print_scarf-256081501095794451

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                                                            LOTSA fun in tapestry form, 

watching mice at a shoe store-shoemaking establishment. 

Get it here:  www.zazzle.com/mainzer_mice_cobblers_and_shoe_store_print_tapestry-256326947097642479

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Thus ends today's Lucky Dip.  

More in a week or two. 

New additions to my advertising ashtrays collection

Today we have SIX.

I saw four on Etsy, and when I bought them, the lovely vendor gave me two more gratis.

Wanna see?

                   KNAK was a radio station in Salt Lake City, UT back in the day. 

According to the 'net, it was the number on teen rock 'n roll station in the 1960s.  At some point the call letters moved elsewhere, but still, I'm pretty sure, remained in the Salt Lake City area.

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                                                                         Mr. Ed's

There's a Mr. Ed's Restaurant group based in New Orleans, with seven restaurants, five of which have some version of the name Mr. Ed, but since it was founded in 1989, I'm guessing this might be from an earlier Mr. Ed place.

Or not, because the smoke-free ordinance in New Orleans went into effect in 2015, i.e. 26 years after the place(s) was founded.  

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                                                                Mr. Steak
 

 "America's Favorite FAMILY restaurant."

 Founded in 1962, and by the 1970s had 300 locations in 36 states.and Canada.

Done by the late 1980s when the parent company declared bankruptcy, after having diversified the menu, adding poultry, fish, and greens, which I guess alienated the steak-loving crowd..  The last Mr. Steak closed in St, Charles, MO in 2009.

Among the fun happenings in America's Favorite FAMILY Restaurant, kids were given paper cow masks.   

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                                                        Scott Shady Court

Still in business!

And offering "EXTENDED STAY options for drillers, mine workers and other contract laborers."

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                                                         YMCA Hotel, Chicago
 
Opened in 1916, and closed as a hotel in 1979, when it was turned into residential apartments. 

True fact: US YMCA headquarters is in Chicago.

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                                                        Frontier Motel
 
 Still in business!

 

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I discovered this when my hubs was watching football on Thanksgiving a few years ago.

Me no watch football no never.

I was in the kitchen, and I hear this REALLY cool song someone's singing during the halftime show.

That was today's TSOTW:

                                                      Shaboozey - A Bar Song

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is Diana Lynn for Strutwear...

The ad names her most recent film, entitled Bitter Victory.  

However there's only one movie I could find under that title, and she's not in it.

 

So either they planned to cast her, but didn't, or they title of the movie she was in was changed to something else.   

 

Diana Lynn was one of those sweet young things with a heavy music background.  Other girls in the clump were Gloria Jean, June Haver, and Deanna Durbin,  

September 2026's Second Haul of Antiques and Untiques

More marvelous marvels for this very nice day, which is the first very nice day after several days of a scary-ish Nor'easter.

Wanna see?

First up, we have History's Coolest Music-Theme Brooch:

        Rather huge, measuring more than 3" wide and more than 3" high.  Signed AJC.

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Let's go to Hawaii !!

 

                                               In a Ui-Maikai muu muu  !!

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Now here's something VERY unique and special, to wit...

                                             brass and carnelian frog figurine

Me love frogs and turtles.

Two brief frog stories from my life:

I used to have two wicker herons on my porch.  There was a recessed thingie on their backs, where you could put a planter.

On day I was out on the porch, and I noticed in one of the planters was this tiny - like 1" or so tiny - frog.  

                                            not my tiny frog, but about the same size.

The planter was about three feet from the ground, so I had zero idea how this tiny frog managed to get in there.  

My other frog story is not much of a story, although I remember it fondly.

In Stokes State Park, up in Sussex County, NJ, there's a spot where there are two taps out of which comes spring water.

FREE spring water.

I have a case at an antiques co-op in Branchville (Ole Church Antiques.  Mine is the case that faces the door.  MUST SEE. Plus I have one in the basement of the shop.  MUST FIND.) 

Anyway, after I go there, and put stuff in my cases, and collect my sales $$$$$, I go to Stokes to get water.

One day I was filling up my bottles (my bottles are used 48 ounce glass kombucha bottles, not those ginormous plastic thingies.  Glass is waaaayyyyy healthier than plastic.),

While I was doing my thing, out from the rocks comes hopping a very attractive, very green frog.   

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                                   The World's Most Beautiful Nippon Pitcher

Could double as a planter !!.

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                                                 hand carved wooden cat plaque

Christmas is coming, you know.

So is Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Festivus.

Any cat lover would LOVE this.

I say this as a cat lover.

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Let's mix it up !!

                         in Anchor Hocking Chanticleer pattern mixing bowls !!!

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Thus ends today's collection.

Until next time, see more, get more here:

AntiquesUntiques.etsy.com

Lucky Dip

Welcome to today's - i.e. September 20, 2026's - Lucky Dip.

Wanna see?

  There will be Christmas in a couple months, and there will be horrible tasteless Christmas ties.  

We have a CLASSY Christmas tie.

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/1950s_christmas_in_the_city_print_neck_tie-256480514916912539

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There will also be Halloween even sooner...

So if you need party plates, and party napkins for your Halloween party, we got 'em:

                                                                 party plates
 

Get 'em here: www.zazzle.com/liz_is_horrified_and_terrified_paper_plates-256742208306865883

                                                            party napkins
 

Get 'em here:  www.zazzle.com/scary_fiendish_horror_monster_portrait_paper_dinner_napkins-256423236999421967

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Enough about holidays.  Let's see some more awesome awesomeness...

 

                                         Above is a maaaahhhhvelous rug.  

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/abstract_flowers_print_rug-256855383609490269 

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Another maaahvelous item, this one a tote bag.  Antique print was subtitled 'The Model'

Get it here: www.zazzle.com/the_model_crossbody_bag-256697018392826804

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Last, but thousands of miles from least:

                                          dog, bird, and nature print throw blanket
 
 Get it here: www.zazzle.com/woodland_scene_with_dog_and_bird_sherpa_blanket-256592824968128631

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Thus ends today's collection.

More next week !!!