Here’s a little game show stream of consciousness for your brain. Fill in the blank: “Big _______.” Big brother, big bother, big deal, and big night out immediately pop to mind. This week’s fresh to market vintage has four other ways to fill in that blank. We’ve lined up a big bad wolf, a big bracelet, an artifact from a big historical figure and a big vase for you to consider.
We’re not saying that size matters, because when it comes to vintage, we can love an inch tall porcelain animal as much as we love a graceful arching chrome lamp that stretches a quarter of the way across a room. We’re just saying that for this week’s fresh to market vintage, we were all thinking big.
Goula Bobble Head Wood Wolf Character
When I saw this handsome and comical wolf, I thought he was made in Germany. When I got home, I found out that he was crafted in Spain by the Goula Company. It was founded in the 1940s by Josep Goula and makes wood toys and educational products even to this day!
Goula Wooden Bobble Head Figure, $128.99
-Mary Ellen, Aunt Hatties Attic
Huge Chunky Stretch Bracelet
If you have ever shopped my online store, you know I love big chunky plastic jewelry. This bracelet checks all the boxes. Large and geometric in shape, it truly packs a punch. Just the thing for the “bigger is better” crowd. It’s unmarked, but the style shouts designer. I just wish I knew which one.
Black Chunky Stretch Bracelet, $29.95
-Pam , Vintage Renude
Embossed Walker’s Coco-Nut Oil Bottle c 1920s
This glass bottle is an example of what I love about collecting vintage, there is always the opportunity to learn something new. I appreciate that the delicate paper label has survived for all these years, but I was flabbergasted to recently learn about the woman behind the formula the bottle once held. “Madame C.J. Walker” was born Sarah Breedlove to sharecropper parents in Louisiana in 1867. The hair loss problem she developed at a young age eventually led to her founding a hair care company focused on black hair needs. At its peak, her sales team, a network of “Walker Agents” who sold door-to-door in the US and the Caribbean, numbered 25,000 black women.
At the time of her death in 1919, the Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company had annual sales in excess of $500,000 and she held a large real estate portfolio in New York. According to her bio on the History.com site, Walker is considered the first self-made female millionaire in America. I now view this bottle as a reminder that enterprising women can be found everywhere.
Walker’s Coco-Nut Oil Bottle, $45
-Linda, Selective Salvage
1980s Walker Pottery Floor Vase
This Walker Pottery floor vase is so 80s, it should be wearing shoulder pads. With a classic urn shape and those palest peach leaves wrapping around it, it gives art nouveau vibes seen through a pair of 80s spectacles. It’s a big fun piece to fill with tall faux florals with every season. Maybe with an uplight, because if you’re going to do it, you might as well go big.
1980s Walker Pottery floor vase, $45.
-Laurie, NextStage Vintage
That’s our big fresh to market vintage for this week. What is your favorite big piece of vintage? It might be furniture or a piece of art or a pair of earrings, because big is relative. What big means when you’re talking about earrings is tiny compared to what big means when describing a painting.
At Vintage Unscripted, we don’t break much big news, unless you consider one of us finding a complete set of McDonald’s Camp Snoopy glasses at a yard sale to be big news. But we do our best come up with posts that will give you big enjoyment. Never miss a post by subscribing to our email newsletter. You get one email a week with links to all the posts. And we make you a big promise, we’ll never spam you.
