The Tuesday Song of the Week

The height of classy evocative smooth jazz:

'The Captain of Her Heart' - Double

Today's antiques and untiques

As always, oodles more still in the pipeline,

but here's what we have today:

A very attractive art glass big mouth fish

And not only attractive, but useful too!

 That's a belly full of loose change.

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 History's Most Awesome Miniature Shoe, circa 1910

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 Butterfly wings in wall art form    SOLD

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 We gots Delft!   SOLD

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AND we gots presidents:

Eisenhower  SOLD

FDR   SOLD

 Jefferson   SOLD

Taft  SOLD

Wilson  SOLD

Ford  SOLD

Hoover  SOLD

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Over 3 yards of this maavelous VIP Cranston Village horse print  SOLD

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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I've been hoping this song would eventually end up on YouTube.

FINALLY it has!

It's beautiful, it's marvelous -- and it sound REALLY good with the sound turned up to the high heavens.

'Lasciati Amare' - Albano Carrisi

today's antiques and untiques

A small-ish collection, but there is soooooooooo much more still in the pipeline.

Here we go!

Is your name Sprague?  SOLD

Neat pin, once belonging to a Sprague employee.

Sprague employee never took it off its original card.  Maybe he got the pin, then got a job with Sprague's competition, and therefore never wore it.  But he enjoyed his time with Sprague, so he kept it.  

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Maavelous Ernest Borel watch pendant

This is a wind-up watch that WORKS, and keeps PERFECT time.  Plus, as if the foregoing was not enough, the chain is gold-filled.   

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Now these are something mega-special, 

to wit circa 1900 Derby Silver quardruple plate teapot and other pot.    SOLD

 Why do I say 'other pot,' when they both look like teapots?? 

That's because one is a little taller than the other.  If you've ever seen the classic 19th century tea set, there are two teapot-looking pots.  One for tea, obviously.  The other is for coffee?  Or glühwein? Or Ovaltine?  I honestly have no idea, which you may have already concluded.

Both came from the same place, looking almost black with tarnish, and looking only fit for the trash heap.  But they polished up BEAUTIFULLY.  And they look waayyyyy better in person than they look in the photos.  
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So that's it for today.  But know this: much MUCH more is on its way.

See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

Do not Do not Do not

Do NOT order clothes from Minachic.

You'll see their ads on Facebook, showing all kinds of attractive -- to me at least -- linen and cotton dresses and blouses and stuff.

I made the mistake of ordering.  

What I ended up getting were a few shoddy garments that would fit a woman who weights at least 250 pounds more than I do.   One would be very suitable for someone planning to appear on My 600 Pound Life.  

Naturally, I wanted to return them.  Minachic's return dealie is that you email service@minachic, give them the order number, and you'll get return/exchange instructions back.

Don't believe it.  You will NEVER hear back from them about their garbage clothes.

I wish wish wish I had seen this first:  https://www.trustpilot.com/review/minachic.com

Bag of the Week

Today's bag is something lovely,

and kinda classy,

as well as

classic, 

and, of course...

Made in USA

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/beautiful_blue_victorian_decor_print_change_purse-223774634596617209

The Tuesday Song of the Week

The song here is subsumed by the dancing.  

Which is mind-blowingly awesome, and which I've watched five times already.

'What Lola Wants' - Gwen Verdon

If I'm ever stopped on the street by a genie offering me three wishes, one of them would be to have Gwen Verdon's body, as seen in this clip.

Bag of the Week

Something VERY marvelous and unique for Easter,

as well as the other 364 days of the year.

A Byzantine representation of Jesus.

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/byzantine_folk_art_jesus_tote_bag-256350998052143365

Today's Antiques and Untiques

As ever, a bunch of bo marvelous must-have marvels, and many MANY more still in the pipeline.

Here's today's:

You have no idea how much I love love love these pins.

 Found the above, and an identical set awhile back.  The identical set I'm keeping - I'll be the lady with the bird pins on her clothes -- but you can buy the above set, and have bird pins all over YOUR clothes.  
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Now here's an astonishing find. 

(which I chose to photograph amidst dead leaves, otherwise all you'd see was a round blob)  

   I thought maybe it was Phoenix glass, but then I noticed some bumps in the form of                 letters on the underside. And the bumps turned out to spell 'Czechoslovakia'

And also 'Tshecoslovaquie'

Then I did a little research and found out that this is from the 1930s.

MINT condition after eighty years or so!!!

Keywords for your interest and edification: 1930s Czechoslovakia frosted glass bowl with horses, 1930s Czechoslovakia frosted glass horse bowl

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This should be an exhibit in the Cutest Things In the History of the World Museum

 But since that museum doesn't actually exist yet, he/she could be exhibited in your own home!!

Even more keywords: dressed duck doll, Easter decor duck, Easter duck, cute duck doll
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Ladies and gents, meet Him and Her

They'be been together for decades.

 And would definitely make cooler than average wedding cake toppers.  Or quiet roommates.

And yet more keywords: Charles Dickens characters, Charles Dickens figurines, man and wife figurine
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Keywords not required for this BEEEYOOOOTIFUL

demitasse cup and saucer, with a pansy print.

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I find this to be something really sweet, to wit...

Saw whet owls in suncatcher form   SOLD

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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

Bag of the Week

How doesn't love adorable bunny rabbits??

Nobody, that's who.

Which bring us to our (made in USA !!)  Bag of the Week:

Might make a nice Easter bag!!

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/cute_little_white_bunny_wearing_big_hat_messenger_bag-210718591716757496
See all of the other TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SOMETHING bags in my store  (all of which are made in the USA) here: 

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/bag?ps=92

Mug of the Month

Can it be said that YOUR job's a picnic?

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/my_jobs_a_picnic_coffee_mug-168066248481670671

See my 600+ other mugs here:

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/mug?qs=mug&dp=252936654337358919&pg=1&ps=92

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I'm sure you've missed this.

So have I.  But my computer didn't have sound, and so how was I to select a worthwhile Tuesday Song of the Week?

But now I have sound.

And I'm surprised it took me this long to post the song below, since I've loved since the first time I heard it:

'Is It You' - Lee Ritenour

retro ties, vintage ties, cool ties

for April !

from an 1880s German language book on flora and fauna that I have

 comes this print of a Wasserhuhn aka moorhen

Note that the actual tie is NOT NOT NOT blurry.  

The blur you see is the fault of my  photo-editing program.  

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Not what you'd consider a tie for a grown man, but try it and watch the gals from the Accounts Inconceivable department climb all over you.

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If you're not handsome, you could at least be Handsum

 From another of the dozens of old fruit crate labels I recently got out of an estate.
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From the 1939/40 edition of Air Trails Annual, also in my possession, comes this VERY cool print of the 1939 British Fairey Junior Medium Bomber

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From a Victorian trade card

 

Darlington, Runk & Co. of Philadelphia was an importer of silks, brocades, lace, passementerie, and other ladies' accessories, from around 1870 to 1900.
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To see these and the HUNDREDS of other ties in my Zazzle store, go here:

https://www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/suit+accessories?qs=suit%20accessories&dp=252286294116580870&pg=1&sd=desc&st=date_created