We look for anything you might think is fun, interesting, beautiful, new, old or odd. Vintage and almost new clothes, ceramics, treen, ephemera, books and costume jewellery. If it fits in a box, we'll sell it.

Saturday, 7 March 2015

Ceramic Beer Pump Clip Millstone Brewery -Three Shires



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Unusual pump clip for Three Shires Bitter from the Millstone Brewery on the edge of the Lancashire Moorlands. In good condition although there he remains from the plastic clip on the back.
12cm x 0.5cm

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Vintage Handpainted Square Sandwich Tray - Golden Azalea - Mason's


Square sandwich tray or cake dish with two small handles by Mason's. It's in the Golden Azalea pattern although this one is uncoloured and I think is referred to as "Golden Azalea Brown". The backstamps indicate it was produced between the mid 1920s and around 1940. It has some crazing and some surface scuffs to the edge which I hesitate to term "chips" as they only just expose the ironstone beneath. Still very presentable

28cm x 23.5cm

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Vintage Small Pale Blue Window or Boat Vase - Dartmouth Pottery



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Small pale blue (a little more green than in the photos)  fluted boat vase by Dartmouth Pottery. One or two small nibbles to each end of the rim and the ring is a little dull suggesting a hairline crack but although there is some crazing I can't hear any creaking. Still looks good though. 

17cm x 9cm x 7cm

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Friday, 6 March 2015

Vintage Calyx Ware Micratex 2087 Square Dish - Adams



Great looking pale blue and pink square Calyx Ware/Micratex ironstone dish by Adams. The floral pattern, "Lowestoft", is handpainted as is the orange line around the edge. The stamps and trade names indicate it's from between 1963 & 1966 but it looks much newer.  There are a couple of firing faults in the surface and the transfers aren't aligned brilliantly so it's probably a second although visually it's very good and there are very few surface marks. 

25cm x 22cm


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Japanese Influenced Studio Pottery Cheese Cloche



Great looking cheese dish in a grey speckled glaze with tenmoku style glazed finial and edges. No pottery mark but in excellent condition.

18cm x 10cm

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Vintage Small Brown Honeycomb Tea Pot - Fosters Pottery


Small (2 cup) tea pot by Fosters of Cornwall. It's in the brown honeycomb design with small lid and accented handle. It is unmarked but I have seen an identical one bearing the original label so am 100% confident it is Fosters. It has been used but there is very little staining and no chips or nips.

18cm x 13cm x 10cm
 
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Thursday, 5 March 2015

Vintage Welsh Pottery Posy or Dried Flower Vase - Padarn Llanberis Pottery


Large and very heavy hollow ball shaped stoneware vase with concave top pierced with over a dozen holes for either posies or dried flowers. It's by Padarn Pottery of Llanberis in Snowdonia. I can't find much about the pottery although I have had some of their items decorated in the dendritic/mocha style. In excellent condition although there is a faint bit of marker residue that may well be removed come sale.

10cm x 12cm (d)

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Vintage English Plastic Dressing Table Pot - Retro Collectable



Splendid piece of vintage English made plastic. Small round pot with faceted base and ornate ogee edged lid. It's a clear brown tortoiseshell colour with barely a mark on it. Date estimate 1950s/60s. 

9.5cm x 6cm diameter

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Vintage Stoneware Gin Decanter - Tremar Cornwall



Vintage stoneware gin decanter by Tremar in typical olive green glaze and brown detail. It is missing the large cork - can be obtained from good cookshops - but is otherwise in excellent condition. 

24cm x 11cm

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Wednesday, 4 March 2015

Single Dark Red Egg Cup - Chodziez, Poland



Single egg cup in dark red or maroon by Chodziez of Poland. In very good condition

5.5cm x 4.8cm


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Vintage Welsh Pottery Wine Carafe - Laugharne Pottery



Large wine carafe by Laugharne Pottery. Beige outside, dark blue on the inside with a relief plaque proclaiming "Wine". A few smudges and a little chip on the base and no stopper, if there ever was one, but otherwise in very good condition. 

28cm x 12cm (d)

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Vintage 1970s Fleur Egg Cup - Hornsea



A single eggcup in the Fleur pattern by Hornsea. This pattern was made between 1973 and 1992 and this item is in excellent condition.
4cm x 4.5cm diameter

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Tuesday, 3 March 2015

Vintage Square Tray - Mason's



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Square tray with two small handles by Mason's. Cream coloured with handcoloured floral pattern. There are a couple of small chips, one to the footring, the other to the underside of the rim that isn't too noticeable from above. Approximate date, 1940-50 

23cm x 26cm

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Vintage Stoneware Brandy Flask - Tremar Cornwall



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Stoneware brandy flask or decanter by the Tremar pottery of Cornwall. Part of a series popular in the 1970s that make great retro ornaments. This one still has the original cork and the leather lace around the neck. It is in excellent condition. 

18cm x 15cm x 6cm

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Vintage Hand Painted Sugar Bowl - Toni Raymond Pottery



Small sugar bowl by Toni Raymond Pottery, handpainted in an orange speckle. I'm not sure if it had a lid at one time but it will survive without one. There is a small chip on the underside of the rim that barely notices and otherwise it's in very good condition,

8.5cm (d) x 6.5cm

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Monday, 2 March 2015

Small Wooden Frog



Charming small wooden frog. In a dark rosewood colour with half its head in a yellow stain. A few small surface marks, mainly to the base but otherwise in great condition. 
Measurements approx 5.5cm x 5cm


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Peacock Ashtray or Pin Tray - Bristow Pottery, Malta




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Pale grey-green unglazed ashtray or pin tray with impressed peacock design at the centre. It's by Bristows of Malta and still has the original foil stamp. In excellent condition. 

9.5cm x 3cm

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Sunday, 1 March 2015

Studio Pottery Milk Jug - Anvil Pottery



Stoneware milk jug by the Anvil Pottery of Llanrhaeadr-yng-Nghinmeirch in Denbighshire. In perfect condition, still with label

9cm x 11cm

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Botanic Garden Forget Me Not Milk Jug - Portmeirion



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Modern Botanic Garden range milk jug with Forget-Me-Not design. In excellent condition. 

Weight incl packaging: 500g. 

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Vintage Yellow & Beige Oak Leaf Teapot - Wood and Sons



Large teapot in the orange/beige Oak Leaf pattern by Wood & Sons. Contemporary pattern but the company, one of the more well known of the Potteries' companies, died a decade ago now so these are becoming rarer. In excellent condition.

25cm x 13cm x 12cm 

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