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It is probably because I have been a vintage dealer since I was 18 that when Shooting the Past, the brilliant Stephen Poliakoff drama about photographic archives, with Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan, came out in 1999 that I was so enraptured by it. KA Perratt. Weekly we see the past recreated to varying degrees … Continue reading The Delights of Vintage Photographs. Tommy Cooper and Mount Radford School Exeter.
We are at Ford Market near Arundel. Late April 2024. Spring is struggling to establish itself; it is wet and cold so the airfield is just half full. Star find at the vintage fair Arundel, Sussex. It was strange in a way. Awakening at 4 am I decided to write a blog about a Clash … Continue reading Top Vintage Finds. 5 ft Sweet Dreams Are Made of This Poster. A Ground Breaking Image.
Eloise let’s out a vaguely audible harumph. We have an agreement with our business that she deals with the admin problems, I do all the packaging, it is a very agreeable agreement for both parties. Eloise is normally very good at saving me from more madness inducing problems but this was super tricky. A lady … Continue reading Another Small Parcels Courier Disaster
We are actually highly proficient vintage traders selling on the Etsy platform, amongst. I think 10,000 Etsy sales qualifies you for someone of great experience. We currently have three successful Etsy shops. Plus an unmitigated disaster! Nobody wants to read a blog about someone running a successful Etsy business. But we all like to feel … Continue reading Our New and Failing Etsy Shop. An Online Retail Plate of Spam! Etsy DIY.
Eloise bought five pieces of beautiful china from a late Victorian wash bowl sets today 2/5. Missing the large jug (ewer) she broke them up and listed them individually. One of the great things of the internet is the ease of discovery. But you didn’t need the internet to work out how long ago the … Continue reading Interesting Finds. Discovering the Evolution of SylvaC
why do people collecting furniture have to lie ?
Why are they all so ill and their car's broken down ?
Please someone, just tell me
In a cynical frame of mind we sat down very early whils’t our minds were fresh and yes indeed in half an hour it was set up.
G plan furniture mainly featured in the Eighties and Nineties is large piles of firewood at local tips. Before the days of gumtree and other easy methods of recyling furniture your only other option was the local auction house who would direct you to the local tip ! Yup, it is pretty ugly. But it … Continue reading GPlan. Gathering Momentum