Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star:


Jeanne Crain for Motorola portable radios
While Jeanne was not what anyone would call a great actress, she was pretty and especially suited for 'sweet young thing' roles.  

My mother remembered her fondly in Home in Indiana and Margie.  

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I always thought this guy had the voice of an angel.

"Good Morning, Starshine' - Oliver

Thursday, November 21, 2019

Bag o' the Day

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,

adorable Scottie dogs Blackie and Whitie enjoying the warmth.

A VERY marvelous Christmas gift for the fan of Scottie dogs:


Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/blackie_and_whitie_by_the_fire_messenger_bag-210608945814810697

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

The Tuesday Song of the Week

I forgot all about this song.

Until I heard it a few months ago in a Barnes & Noble.

Immediately I was yanked back to the early 1990s. and I felt a tug on my insides so so...
I could have cried.  

There was a lot going on in my life in the early 1990s, some good, some bad, but all big-ish stuff that likely went a long way toward turning me into the person I am today.  

The song wasn't my favorite, just one of the things that you'd hear at least a couple times a week on the radio.

'Second Chance' - 38 Special

Latest antiques and untiques

As ever and always, 

some way neato stuff.

To wit:
sweet white rabbit in alabaster   SOLD
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brilliant Blenko yellow art glass candleholders  SOLD
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    handsome copper finish Airedale   SOLD
(at least, I think it's an Airedale)
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            marvelous lacy framed 1930s Valentine   SOLD
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   Stangl White Dogwood pattern bread plates aka cake plates  SOLD
ummmm, cake
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fantastic blue fish bottle
has original cork
                                          which is nice                                   SOLD
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lastly, but far from leastly
             we have a 1920s Roseville baby plate with dressed bunnies   SOLD
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Note that there are many MANY MANY more must-have must-haves still in the pipeline.

'til then,

see more, get more here:

Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star 

Marilyn Maxwell for Max Factor pancake make-up
I don't know Marilyn Maxwell from a cord'a wood, as my hubbage would say.  However, I do remember reading that she was the only woman Rock Hudson truly loved.  

Bag o' the Day

Something fun and wacky from 1922.  I'm thinking the fun wacky-looking lady was perhaps Mae Murray.


Get it here:

https://www.zazzle.com/1922_oddball_movie_star_get_up_blue_tote_bag-256819390994614901

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Today's antiques and untiques

A much larger than usual haul today.

But just as awesome as ever:


first up, a Flemish Art tankard with a pretty lady   SOLD

and also with grapes and grape leaves on the other side, which I forgot to photograph.

 Skol !!
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Some other old timey merchandise,
           in the form of blue EAPG salt and pepper shakers    SOLD

 sunset pattern

guttate pattern
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Now on to some lovelies and marvels:



gosh oh golly, what a beauty this is:
1960s necklace
five strands of glass beads
all in shades of spring green
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circa 1950 grosgrain evening bag 


nifty lucite clasp


equally nifty thingies holding the straps
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Sarah Coventry is in the house!
SUPER-cool Sarah Cov pendant

primitive mask and crab motif 
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maaahvelous rhinestone brooch in THREE colors !!
pale lavender
pink
ice blue
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Albert Weiss floral brooch
on original card!!
       Unworn for over 50 years !!!  SOLD
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Back to the really old merch:

                                                 Victorian milk glass vanity jar          SOLD




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Now some frame-ups:


Seagull pewter horses frame, dated 1993

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'nother frame:
            miniature wooden deep well frame    SOLD

and a 'nother:
                this one with beaded edges           SOLD
(not real beads.  It's a carpentry term)
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Last, but far from least 
1984 John Wright cast iron animal puzzle mold
with ELEVEN -- or perhaps 12 - animals!

The mold has:

a bear

a buffalo

a duck

an elephant

a hippopotamus

a lion

a pig

a rabbit

a rhinoceros

a sheep

a tiger

and maybe - or maybe not -- a walrus.  There is definitely what looks like tusks, but I'm not sure they belong to a walrus.  You be the judge.

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See more, get more here:  www.etsy.com/shop/AntiquesUntiques

Monday, November 11, 2019

Happy Veterans Day

Got a veteran in your family?

I have four - my three brothers and my dad.  Also, my maternal grandfather.  Some day I'll dig up the pic I have of him.  It's very neato.


This is my dad.
He enlisted in the Marines at age 16.  He would have been very tall by then - he eventually topped out at around 6'4" -, and so I guess they thought he was the age he claimed he was.  When they found out he was 16, they sent him home.

A few years later he enlisted again.  This was in the early 1950s, Korea-era.

One of my brothers once asked him how he 'dodged Korea.'  

This offended my father.  He made no attempts to dodge anything.  He was just lucky.  

The story was that he was on the bus -- or was it the train? -- that would take him and the other potential cannon fodder the plane/ship that would run them to Korea.  Just before the bus/train left, a rep from Camp LeJeune got on, needing two recruits to come back, in order to help teach the new recruits (I forget what).  He picked two guys at random.  

'You, and you, come with me.'  

My dad happened to be one of those yous.


With those looks, he shoulda gone to Hollywood.

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Something really really really sad.

You may have noticed this Tuesday's Song of the Week.

i.e. 1961's 'The Alley Cat.'

An hour after I posted the Tuesday Song of the Week, news popped in my Facebook feed that an acquaintance of mine -- Al Chernoff, an overall great guy and a hero for animals -- was murdered in his home in Northeast Philadelphia.

His nickname, believe it or not, was 'Alley Cat.'
Rest in Peace, Al.

The Tuesday Song of the Week

When I found this on YouTube, I thought, judging by the name of the artist, that this might actually be a punk record, and not the piece I was looking for. 

Artist's name?  Bent Fabric.

Turns out it WAS what I was looking for, but I cannot wrap my head around the idea that somebody could go about with the name Bent Fabric in 1961.* 

Anyway, every EVERY birthday party, EVERY get-together of any description, this would be on the turntable:


'The Alley Cat' - Bent Fabric

Mr. Fabric's real name is Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, and he's from Denmark.  As of this typing, he's still alive, at age 94.

Monday, November 4, 2019

November's vintage ties! Cool ties! Retro ties! Unique ties!

As ever and always, a grouping of 100% marvelous, 100% awesome neckties:


We be smoking
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We be smoking more
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Who says dogs can't be paperboys?
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Brunnhilde weeps at Sigfried's funeral pyre
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a fashionable young modern circa 1920 marvels at the Era of Flight
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Love in bloom
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See all 700+ ties here:

https://www.zazzle.com/store/the_olden_eye/suit+accessories

The Star Made Me Buy It

Today's star is David Niven,

looking all that in a Stetson hat:
This would have been 1950, since the top of the ad mentions the movie The Elusive Pimpernel which came out that year.

Bag of the Day

A marvelous little wristlet, and a perfect gift for the...

Scotswoman,

English professor,

and/or

fan of the works of Sir Walter Scott,

beings as the print depicts his home, Abbotsford House:

 https://www.zazzle.com/antique_abbotsford_house_print_wristlet-223822658606133763

Friday, November 1, 2019