Latest antiques and untiques

Christmas is coming!

As are a BUNCH of other gift-giving holidays and observations and that.  

Why buy mass-produced-in-China gifts for your nears and dears, when you can do wayyy better than that?

The answer is found here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

and also here:

www.zazzle.com/the_olden_eye/products

Note that 99.999% of what you buy from my Zazzle store is Made in USA.  The sole exception are leggings, which are made in Canada.

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Now on to what we have for you today:

Bo adorable kitty cat scatter pins circa 1970.

another adorable kitty items, this one in the form of a Kitty Cucumber music box. SOLD

It' plays 'Sunrise, Sunset.'

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Channel your inner Jacqueline Kennedy !!

Classic huge buttons, sort-ish sleeves for showing off a bracelet or five

Bad lighting.  The coat looks SOOOOOO much better in person.

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A neato wall rack for the nursery

and/or the room of a girl who's learning to play the violin

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Another neat item for your wall,

Made in Italy

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Atlantic City !!

circa  1910

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    Are you ready for some football?  SOLD

in 1930s celluloid?? 

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That's all for now, but like always, there is SOOO much more in the pipeline.

See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

The Tuesday Song of the Week

This Tuesday Song of the Week relates to the only two death threats I ever received.

THAT got your attention, am I right?

The song has nothing specific to do with the death threats, however.

Enjoy.

'Roll to Me' - Del Amitri

I had the CD this song came from.

I put it on eBay in 1998 or so.

At the time, I did not accept PayPal (and PayPal was not required like it is today.  Which stinks, but that's another topic entirely).

Some guy from Italy bid on it.

When he was awarded the high bid, I emailed him to day he could pay via international money order, US dollars.  

He didn't want to do that.  He wanted to pay via PayPal.  

Nothing doing.  Why should I have paid MORE in fees to sell something I only got $10 or so dollars for?

Well, he was P*SSED.  And threatened that if I didn't accept his PayPal payment, my days were numbered.  

I passed this threat on to eBay, but they did less than nothing, basically telling me it was my problem, and eBay is not responsible for eBay users killing other eBay users.

Fortunately for me, he didn't buy a ticket from Alitalia direct to the City of Bothersome Love.  Probably ended up getting the CD from some PayPal victim.

Death Threat the Second:

Another aggrieved eBay customer, this one in Australia.  

I had an old book about rare medical oddities.  The book was kinda skeevy, but it was the rare first edition, and Mr. Down Under wanted it, and wanted to pay via PayPal.  

I told him nothing doing.  Send me an international money order, US dollars, thank you.

Then he threatened to kill me, and issued more details about how he would do it - strangulation, I believe - than the Italian guy did.  

Again, I contacted eBay and again what I got was: 'Not our problem.'  

Obviously, he never made good on his threat, otherwise I wouldn't be typing this.  

All these years later all I can think is...

What is WRONG with people???????

Bag o' the Day

You're about to see something epic cool.

READY?

Here we go:

circa 1920 Eskimo Chewing Tobacco

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/eskimo_tobacco_print_tote_bag-256507026622397739

See the other thousand or so - really, there are over a THOUSAND bags in my shop - here:

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

The Birds

Know this: lots and lots and lots of items in my Zazzle store are bird-related.

Parrots, chickens of various varieties, ducks, sparrows, parakeets, snowy egrets, coots, owls, bluebirds, mystery birds and MORE.

Here's just a few on below:  

btw, know also that the watermarks are only there to protect YOU from flying monkeys.

Have you ever seen a cuter throw pillow??

 Me neither.
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Bring the bluebird of happiness into YOUR life!

 In tote bag form!!
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Right here is History's Loveliest Lamp Shade

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suh'm perfect for the shore house decor!

A towel set printed with snowy egrets!!

Set is made up of wash cloth, hand towel and bath towel

 

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The Tongue-Cut Sparrow of Japanese lore

on a clock !!

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old Pennsylvania German print tie, 

featuring the Distelfink 

(gosh, how I love that word)

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Lastly, we have a tapestry featuring a Wasserhuhn

i.e. a Eurasian coot

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See more, get more here:
www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/products?qs=bird

Bag o' the Day

Something sweet and appealing is today's bag:

Captioned 'Feeding the chickens.'

Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/circa_1900_feeding_the_chickens_print_messenger_bag-210723575480745074

pillow talk

We haven't talked throw pillows in a while.

And yet there are sooo many - just over a THOUSAND (for reals) - that are worth talking about.  

late 19th century cigarette advertising

Perfect for the man cave and/or the vintage advertising decor

 True fact: you couldn't buy packs of cigarettes until the 1880s.  A cigarette-making machine was invented in 1881.  What the guys above are smoking are 'Little Beauties.'
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More neato pillows for the man cave.

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Something VERY neat for the geometric decor, modern decor, MCM decor,

 or Swedish decor

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This one, depicting an antique tarot card,

has oodles of possibilities!

Antique decor, 19th century decor, occult decor. cool stuff decor

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A folky print for a folky decor!

Or country decor !!

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See all the other 1000+ throw pillows here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/pillows+cushions

Today's antiques and untiques

Oodles of neat stuff today, but there's SOOOOO much more on its way.

Let's look at today's items:

first, we got lotsa vintage costume jewelry

this from circa 1930

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 We be having thermoset!

blue thermoset necklace

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CHUNKY and busy and that, oh my!

It's a bracelet.

Obviously.

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A maavelous Mid=Century Modern rarity

in the form of a DuFoe necklace

 First DuFoe-signed item I've ever seen.
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 Another designer-signed item is this VERY marvelous JJ Christmas tree brooch

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 We be having moonglow !!

reddish-pinkish moonglow necklace 

ice blue moonglow necklace

dreamy grey moonglow necklace

and a moonglow rarity!

red moonglow lariat necklace !!

That's it for jewelry.

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Next we got

Fontanini Italy wall plaques,

bas relief 18th century motifs 

Unique !

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and SUPER-appealing !!

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folk art metal kitty cat SOLD

 Isn't that neat?

Yes.  Yes it is.
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On to more fauna: 

1930s moriage elephant incense burner

i ♥ elephants

In addition to mammals, we got birds:

 make a stuffed turkey!!

                        A 100% cotton, 100% vegan turkey !!!        SOLD

Isn't he handsome?

 True fact: where I live there are lots of wild turkeys.

  I ♥ turkeys.

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And swans!  I ♥ swans too!

L. E. Smith glass black swan

BLACK.  Not the greyish color you see here.  This is black.

'Black black black like Othello.'  

That's a line from a play I was in.  In addition to acting in the play, I was the dialog coach, since a number of the characters were German and I'm way good with German.

A German would pronounce it 'Blek blek blek like Otello.'
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While I ♥ turkeys and also swans,

I really ♥ owls.

How much do you love these marvelous marvels??  Right???

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Now onto items for your wearing and like that:

EPIC adorable kitten print scarf

or 'cat print scarf'

Either is correct.

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gold-tone woven metal belt
note that the color is stronger than what you see here.   SOLD

began life in Greece

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Not for wearing, but an old-timey and VERY deco vanity item (but for men)

 Note that the color is a strong forest green, and not the wimpy green shade you see in the photos.

I ♥ deco columns

That white stuff is a little caked residual talc.  It's since been cleaned off.

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See more, get more here:

www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques