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Benefits of Leaving The Office

Posted on July 6, 2012April 16, 2019 by 20th Century Vintage

A day at home normally involves doing work on my husband’s business, and this week especially, I felt like I’d been stuck in the office for way too long.

So with a yearning for a bit of sunshine and a need to get some excersice I took off for a bit of a walk in the neighbourhood. Well that just happened to involve a trip to the local op shop and it didn’t disappoint. Check out some of the latest finds.

Some great retro glasses

Glomesh Purse

Coffee Set by British Anchor, Impact Range – Staffordshire, England. The set includes a coffee pot, 6 cups and saucers, a milk jug and sugar bowl. All of the pieces are in fantastic condition and look like they’ve never been used. The colour is just amazing.

Coffee Set by Poole, England. This set includes a coffee pot, 5 cups and saucers, a sugar bowl and a milk jug. This is in fantastic condition and looks unused as well.

The last 2 pictures of the clear icey textured “Hopla” glasses are probably the pick of the finds, as I do have a bit of a soft spot for most pieces designed by Tapio Wirkkala for Iittala.

Geraldton Gems

Posted on March 12, 2011April 16, 2019 by 20th Century Vintage

It’s not often I travel to Geraldton but every now and then my husband travels there for business. So when he does I tend to tag along. When I’m there I always do a browse of the op shops. Interesting finds are few and far between, but I’ve picked up a couple along the way.

This time when we were there there was a small collector’s fair on where I was able to pick up a couple of things that I love, which might interest you as well. Enjoy!

Large Red Brandy Balloon – Stands 26cm high

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Ruby Red Balloons

Posted on February 21, 2011April 16, 2019 by 20th Century Vintage

One of my latest finds “6 Ruby Red brandy balloons” – gorgeous! sorry… NOW SOLD

Did you know?
Most of the ruby glass we see today has been produced during the later part of the nineteenth or early twentieth centuries.

Antonio Neri first alluded to the process of making richly coloured ruby glass in a book on glass manufacturing first published in 1612 though Johann Kunckel of Potsdam, Germany, is credited with having produced the earliest known examples in 1680. Kunckel’s process used a small amount of gold in the mix that resulted in a beautiful red colour. German glassmakers called this process Rubinglas.

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