With this week’s fresh to market vintage, Vintage Unscripted is making a shift. Mary Ellen, one of the founding voices, is retiring. Of course we’re sad. We will miss her practical New England point of view, her love of kitsch, the depth of her knowledge about antiques and her stories about growing up. But we are also cheering her on as she devotes more time to her rekindled love of sewing as well as going on more adventures with her husband Paul, a man with exquisite esoteric knowledge about antiques and a gourmand’s taste for doughnuts.
The fresh to market vintage post every week always has the highest readership, and it’s the most fun to put together. It’s a chance for us to show off our finds and to share things we’ve learned. We hope you enjoy us having four different contributors with four different points of view. We don’t want to lose that variety. So starting today, we’re going to feature something awesome from a non VU vintage seller. Sharing the world of vintage by highlighting other sellers is part of our mission. We’re excited to be able to do that every week, right here.
Let’s get to it!
Vintage German Beer Stein with Pewter Lid
Most of us who buy and sell vintage associate beer steins with Germany but I for one knew little more than that. I have a small collection to deaccession so was pleased to come across an enlightening article in Collectors Weekly: Beer Steins, From Stoneware to Faience which contains a link to the Beer Stein Library. I’m not going down that rabbit hole right now, but it’s nice to know someone already has.
Small Pictorial German Beer Stein, $35
Linda, Selective Salvage
Faux Coral & Jade Rose Brooch
A single rose historically symbolizes a new love relationship or love at first sight. If you happen to have a new love, this may be just the right gift. There are many version of this brooch, proving the popularity of the design. This one is carved of faux coral and stone to look like jade.
Single Rose Brooch, $24.95
Pam, Vintage Renude
1930s Hazel Atlas Moderntone Dinner Plates
A lot of Depression Glass plates from the 30s have been so well used it’s hard to rationalize selling them. Perhaps the centers are full of utensil marks, or there might be a small chip or two. While I would absolutely use things like that myself, as a seller, it makes me squirm to list things where the condition description is longer than the actual description. Finding these plates in a box in a dusty attic, wrapped in tattered pages of newspaper, was one of those moments that makes vintage selling so much fun. It would be delightful if these plates went off as refills for broken pieces in someone’s Moderntone dinnerware set.
Cobalt Blue Hazel Atlas Moderntone Dinner Plates, set of 2, $42.
Laurie, NextStage Vintage
1971 “Grateful Dead” Original US Pressing
The Grateful Dead’s self-titled 1971 live double album with a gatefold cover is a Deadhead’s dream. The olive green “skeleton” label marks this as an original pressing, pressed at the Columbia Records plant in Pitman, NJ. It’s commonly called “Skull and Flowers” because of the iconic cover art by Alton Kelly with Stanley Mouse. The album, which was recorded at several venues, was the band’s first certified gold record.
Grateful Dead 1971 Double Album Original Pressing, $77.
Sean, Funky Robot Records
We love the past, but we do our best to only dwell there when we’re sourcing and listing awesome vintage in our shops. We’re going to miss Mary Ellen like crazy. She’s been here shoulder to shoulder with us for the nine years we’ve been publishing Vintage Unscripted. But we are also looking forward to surprising you with all kinds of exciting vintage. It’s a big vintage world out there…who know’s what we’ll find?
We’ve brought about quite a change with fresh to market vintage this week. We don’t want to make the earth spin off its axis by doing too much new stuff, we’ll finish exactly like we always do. This is the place were we suggest you subscribe to our email newsletter so you don’t miss a single post. We tell you that you get one email a week with links. And we reassure you that your info is as safe with us. That we would sooner change to blogging about dryer lint as art than ever share your email.
