This week’s fresh to market vintage has the usual assortment of completely random things from each of us, a thing that wandered across our path this week that we each cataloged and listed. That is why we love being vintage sellers, the serendipity.
The spool of vintage lace featured this week is in particular is going to be someone’s very useful treasure. Vintage ribbons and lace are often better quality than modern versions of the same, for one thing. If you’re sewing something from a vintage pattern, finding trims from the period is always exciting. Imagine lace from the spool on a modern version of a Gunne Sax dress.
Older antique trims are even more prized for those doing restoration work. Finding lace that was perhaps removed from a garment or never used that’s 100 years old can be the gold at the end of the rainbow. The same can be said of antique and vintage fibers. We’ve sold vintage needlepoint wool a museum for use in repairing tapestries. And buttons? Buttons are in a class of their own, prized by both textile restorers and collectors.
If sewing isn’t your thing, relax, there’s probably something else right up your alley in this week’s fresh to market vintage.
Middlesex Fells Spring Water Bottle
I remember drinking Perrier mineral water from a glass bottle as a young adult in the 1970s as a special treat. The drinking of mineral water and spring water goes back in history as being beneficial to one’s health. We all seem to know that now. This little seven ounce bottle is very heavy by modern day standards due to the fact that it was returnable. Back at the bottling company, these bottles would be sorted and washed and then refilled and sent out to retailers. I think spring water companies started to produce sodas later on because they had the bottling apparatus as well as the access to water. The factory we lived near had lots of these returnable bottles under the outside benches after breaks. I can assure you that the workers were not littering but making a financial opportunity for some of us. As kids, we picked up those refillable bottles to get two cents for each and we went wild in the penny candy store. Who else remembers this?
Water Bottle, $54.99
-Mary Ellen, AuntHattiesAttic
Spool of Cotton Lace Trim
For someone who sews this large spool of crochet cotton lace trim would be a boon to come across. There are yards and yards on this industrial-sized spool. While this lace is probably not very old, based on the original price per yard it’s definitely vintage. With the cost of textiles and notions skyrocketing over the years, this is a great find to add to one’s stash.
Industrial Spool of Cotton Lace, $72.95
-Pam, Vintage Renude
Three Folk Art Painted Saucers, Signed
Offering a set of three folk-painted plates, two with fish themes and the third with two sloops anchored near a dock beside two red buildings. Undated but purchased from an estate sale in the early ’70s. I have no clue who Nellie B. Fish is but I feel certain she would be honored to know her folk painting lives on.
Vintage Folk Art Painted Plates, $60
-Linda, Selective Salvage
Mastro Geppetto Pinocchio with interchangeable nose
Pinocchio, the puppet who became a real boy, is easily recognizable for any of us subjected to the nightmarish Disney film. Yikes some of those scenes still give me the shivers. His nose, which isn’t especially short, to begin with, grows each time he tells a lie. Let’s not even get into the whole growing a tail and ears on Pleasure Island thing. But we’re willing to look past that for this wooden Pinocchio who comes with an interchangeable nose for when he bends the truth. (Full disclosure, I have not seen the Guillermo del Toro film. No, no, no.)
Mastro Gepetto Pinocchio with alternating noses, $35.
–Laurie, NextStage Vintage
That’s this week’s fresh to market vintage. Always different, always eclectic. Maybe one week two of us will show up with the same thing, but that seems precious unlikely.
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If you’re intrigued by bottles, you might enjoy our post that started with finding an Osgood’s India Cholagogue bottle.
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Finally, someone whose memories stretch back in time. Yes, I remember trading in the empty “pop” bottles for penny candy at the corner grocery store.
I eventually inherited a sewing that blonged to a great aunt. Unused since her death in 1926. Buttons and embroidery floss and instruction leaflets, oh my!