If you have creative impulses and are the kind of person who sees possibilities in all kinds of things, we would enjoy your company. If you watch shows like Flea Market Flip, where vintage finds are reimagined, we would enjoy your company. If you have ever been at an estate or yard sale, found a box of crusty metal odds and ends in the workshop and felt like you had won the lottery, we would enjoy your company. Sometimes, loving vintage is about seeing the object itself, but also imagining the potential. This week’s fresh to market vintage has a piece with bursting with potential–the Masonic flag holder.
The cast iron flag holder is oozing history and character. Ball and claw feet, be still our heart. Loyalty, fraternity, charity–we could all do with more of those. Since it was designed to keep a flag upright, it has the right weight and sturdiness to do something with it like adding an iron pipe, topping that with a flange and adding a circle of thick rustic wood to make it into a plant stand. Or should it become the base of a steampunk floor lamp? Oh the possibilities…
If you don’t feel that yearning to make something, don’t fret. The other fresh picks might be right up your alley.
Blue Czech Glass Necklace
Gorgeous blue faceted Czech glass beads strung on the original silk thread. This necklace is in its original condition and still fabulous! The beads show no signs of wear and sparkle beautifully. Choker length as was popular in the Art Deco period, it’s just as wearable now as it was 100 years ago. This is a fabulous piece of history, that can be passed down for generations.
Faceted Czech Glass Necklace, $65.95
Pam, Vintage Renude
Budweiser NY Yankees 1999 Store Display
In case you missed it, the Yankees are not in the World Series this year. As a Red Sox fan, this makes me smirk, but only a little because they got closer than we did. If the Yankees fan in your life needs a consolation prize, how about a vintage Budweiser vinyl store display highlighting the “Century’s Greatest Team?” (It hurt to type that.)
1999 Budweiser Yankees World Series Championships Vinyl Poster, $45.
Laurie, NextStage Vintage
Cast Iron Masonic Flag Holder (c 1883)
We are long-time collectors of American lodge memorabilia, and this piece hits all the right buttons. It’s forged of heavy cast iron, has ball & claw feet and features embossed Masonic verbiage reflecting their principles of loyalty, fraternity and charity.
Antique Masonic Flag Holder, $225
Linda, Selective Salvage
1960s and 1970s Halloween Masks
Here at Vintage Unscripted, we love a good vacuform Halloween mask. Made by laying pieces of plastic over a mold and vacuum sucking them into shape, they were introduced in the 1950s and made through the 1980s, but achieved peak popularity in the 1960s-1970s. The development of more realistic masks spelled their demise. They weren’t exactly comfortable either. The elastic band that held them on could bite, they were sweaty and hard to see out of.
None of that matters though, as these masks with their otherworldly bright colors are much beloved as vintage Halloween decor. All three of the above masks are available on Etsy.
1960s kitty mask, which fluoresces under black light, is from AKitschIsJustAKitsch, $66.25.
1960s Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams from The Addams Family mask is from tycaalak, $70.
1976 Warner Brothers Daffy Duck mask from HeresLookinAtUKid, $14.45.
That’s this week’s fresh to market vintage, each pick representing a tiny piece of history from a different era. We handle a lot of vintage, but it still gives us chills to hold something that is over 100 years old and be able to have it in our homes. If you’ve got the bug, the thrill never gets old.
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