Vintage Surprises...

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Since Thrusday of this past week I have been wading through boxes and boxes and probably over 130 lbs. worth of new stock (vintage/dead stock) for day-lab. I hope to be at least 50% done for Sunday night.


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Lots of things are bagged in lots and so I really don't get to see 100% of what is in them until I get it all home and can fish through the bags, as I have been doing over the past few days. One neat part of this are the cool surprises that I find. A few worth noting below.

Oh, the gorgeous cufflinks...thermosetting plastics, Lucite, reverse painted intaglio glass, fantastic enameling...women's fabric and plastic florals:



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I love Whiting & Davis.
These are still bagged with their price tags:



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I also love Coro and Vendome animal pins.
The crane/bird of paradise is Vendome and the Whale is Coro:

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Coro plastic pins made in France (I love the Art Deco-ish design on the teapot).
These still have their tags attached:

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I really like coming across samples..salesman's sample etc..b/c there is a chance (esp. for sampled marked items) that they might be a one off design, never produced again. These are two moonglow-like plastic pins marked SAMPLE:

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A couple of faux tortoise pins, another thing I like to collect:

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And the Holy Grail of the bunch...A very large 3.5" across heavily carved ivory Bakelite pin with an old C clasp in working order. When I saw it my heart skipped a beat:

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I was equally excited when I found these... still in their original packaging old tie backs for curtains and shade pulls. I have recently starting researching these a bit, so this was a super neat find:




My favorite shade pulls are the little Dutch girl with flowers and the strange black cat tea kettle:



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Back to work for me..still so much to go through and tag and photograph and upload..etc..
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